Career as Teacher

U guys are making a lot of unnecessary assumptions. Poor guy was just asking a qn about a process. Kind of make u guys sound salty tbh. It’s as if the dude said he wanted to be DGE or Ps lmao. Mad jelly folks

Originally Posted by Unregistered

U guys are making a lot of unnecessary assumptions. Poor guy was just asking a qn about a process. Kind of make u guys sound salty tbh. It’s as if the dude said he wanted to be DGE or Ps lmao. Mad jelly folks

^ real sour grapes spotted

Originally Posted by Unregistered

All HQ postings are growth opportunities and opportunities to change one's career trajectory, for better or for worse. It's not about your job title or your office location, but how fast you learn, how impactfully you contribute, and perhaps MOST importantly, WHO you network with and build solid working relationships with.

The people factor is the most important controllable factor in increasing one's chances of being at the right place at the right time when opportunity presents itself. The other big factor is luck, which you can't control.

If the officer keeps a "low class HQ posting" mindset, they've doomed themselves to mediocrity.

This is a very sensible and practical piece of advice.

No matter which HQ posting you are in, your work will inevitably require you to work with a range of stakeholders in and out of the education system. So the officer needs to quickly grasp the unique value he/she brings to the table in the role, no matter how seemingly small, and demonstrate ability to perform well and even beyond the baseline. And in the process of doing so, one builds up a network and makes oneself known for his/her perceived competencies (and weaknesses).

Originally Posted by Unregistered

All HQ postings are growth opportunities and opportunities to change one's career trajectory, for better or for worse. It's not about your job title or your office location, but how fast you learn, how impactfully you contribute, and perhaps MOST importantly, WHO you network with and build solid working relationships with.

The people factor is the most important controllable factor in increasing one's chances of being at the right place at the right time when opportunity presents itself. The other big factor is luck, which you can't control.

If the officer keeps a "low class HQ posting" mindset, they've doomed themselves to mediocrity.

No no. The reason why people don't rise is because they're not a high tier scholar. It has nothing to do with their attitude and competence!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

No no. The reason why people don't rise is because they're not a high tier scholar. It has nothing to do with their attitude and competence!

Haha, it's ridiculous right? But at the same time, high tier scholars have many structured opportunities to rub shoulders with people that can change their career fates significantly, and also many built-in opportunities to rotate around the whole-of-gov to get a very holistic view of things.

The rest of us have to fight hard for such opportunities. That is not to say that we will never get them; they are just not served course by course on a silver platter.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Haha, it's ridiculous right? But at the same time, high tier scholars have many structured opportunities to rub shoulders with people that can change their career fates significantly, and also many built-in opportunities to rotate around the whole-of-gov to get a very holistic view of things.

The rest of us have to fight hard for such opportunities. That is not to say that we will never get them; they are just not served course by course on a silver platter.

Correct. PSC scholars are automatically absorbed into the PSLP whereas the rest of the lower tiers and high performing non-scholars have to compete real hard to have a chance. The system is relatively transparent. In future tell your kids to perform very well academically and attain high achievement in ccas and develop leadership qualities.

Curious about the teachers here, how many colleagues have left your department in the last 2 years? Could be resigned, transferred out etc.

And how many replacements did your department receive?

Teachers are not saint. Always see in the news for conducted some crimes and some go do onlyfans.

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Curious about the teachers here, how many colleagues have left your department in the last 2 years? Could be resigned, transferred out etc.

And how many replacements did your department receive?

We had 4 colleagues who arent around for various reasons and none came in.

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Curious about the teachers here, how many colleagues have left your department in the last 2 years? Could be resigned, transferred out etc.

And how many replacements did your department receive?

Ok not within the last 2 years but when I was a BT in the mid-'10s, we had 6 perm teachers teaching my subject. Some were KPs so they took fewer classes. When I was posted out of the school a few years ago, it went from 4 down to 3.

Currently there is 1 perm teacher and 1 FAJT holding the fort.