Career as Teacher

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I also received good news today that I would be promoted to geo 4. I am from 2015 batch and was on NPL for a year.

Wa all the good news, congrats! Sadly for me no news yet. How did you all get informed? Via email?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Wa all the good news, congrats! Sadly for me no news yet. How did you all get informed? Via email?

P called me to his office to inform me. He was holding a paper with a list of names on it.
Will we get any letter to formally inform us abt the promotion?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

P called me to his office to inform me. He was holding a paper with a list of names on it.
Will we get any letter to formally inform us abt the promotion?

Yes have letter. On the promotion ceremony day held by your school during contact time.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The 2018 GEO3s in my school are all not promoted this year. All females. Guess it'll be next year for them.
Last year the 2017 GEO3s all got promoted.

That's odd. Some 2018 geo 3 female teachers in my school were promoted this year. They from BA or PGDE. One of them is a pretty good performer.

Has FLP invitations for this year been sent out?

Hello, I was promoted to GEO3 in 2019. Last year my colleagues who were promoted to GEO3 in 2019 already got promoted to GEO4. This year I'm still not promoted. Instead a junior colleague got promoted. This is very upsetting because I feel that I've definitely done more in my longer years of service. I know that I have few to no bosses who stand up for me during ranking and this is probably one of the reasons why my performance has generally been average, even though I've taken up a few IC roles. It's sad that at the end of the day it's really not about the work you do but about whether you connect with the right people in the right way. I know it's probably like this, if not worse, in other jobs. It's just that in other jobs it probably makes more sense because the financial stakes are higher. Honestly I expected better from the teaching fraternity when I chose this path after a few years in the private sector. If any hopeful teacher is reading this, let this be a cautionary tale.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The 2018 GEO3s in my school are all not promoted this year. All females. Guess it'll be next year for them.
Last year the 2017 GEO3s all got promoted.

I also 2018 GEO 3. My peers have been promoted to GEO 4 but I am yet to be promoted to GEO 4. All cos I have a C- back in 2020. Crucifixion indeed. 3 years of getting C's wont get me anywhere I guess. Or maybe I should appeal?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

this is for geo3 to geo4?

yes GEO 3 to GEO 4

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I also 2018 GEO 3. My peers have been promoted to GEO 4 but I am yet to be promoted to GEO 4. All cos I have a C- back in 2020. Crucifixion indeed. 3 years of getting C's wont get me anywhere I guess. Or maybe I should appeal?

Unless big leadership renewal is coming to your school, then you need to change school. Seek out new leadership. I'm dead serious, otherwise you will be stuck under the panel that forever remembers you as the one who did whatever you did to get that C-.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Unless big leadership renewal is coming to your school, then you need to change school. Seek out new leadership. I'm dead serious, otherwise you will be stuck under the panel that forever remembers you as the one who did whatever you did to get that C-.

Exactly. While changing school is more easily said than done, fast promotions are almost entirely dependent on whether the school's panel believes in it or not. On one hand you have schools in which there are extremely few GEO KPs, even though some may be very young. On another hand you may have a school with Hi-Po officers stuck on a 3-4 year promotion interval because the panel is super hardass about "default C after promotion" and other nonsense.