River Valley High School [*IP]

[Fairy]

WeiHan:

Hi Fairy. Which school was your children in? I think to be fair, we have to acknowledge good teachers too. For example, there are teachers in RV who offer to drive student home (they stay around same area) after H3 lesson (late in the afternoon). There are teachers offering to stay in library (library closing time will be extended after mid year exams until A level) to answer questions and to help students during this period. There are teachers who are so concern that he/she will drop a note in students facebook even during school holiday.

My children are both at IP schools, not RV though. It's good that RV has caring teachers. Maybe my children's schools also have. Just their luck they kept having the bochap ones. One thing's for sure, if my children have such experiences with their teachers, I will not hesitate to write to the school's principal to commend on the teachers' good work.
I will not feedback on any 'bad' teachers though, least they got 'marked'.

[daisyt]

Hi Fairy, 节哀顺变, haha. I would say something is wrong with MOE. The system is not attracting good & enough teachers, especially local teachers. So now starting import FT teachers too lor.

[sall]

daisyt:

Hi Fairy, 节哀顺变, haha. I would say something is wrong with MOE. The system is not attracting good & enough teachers, especially local teachers. So now starting import FT teachers too lor.

The system is so stressful that even good teachers cannot tahan and they quit. MOE tried to attract by increasing pay and bonus. But by grading teachers and giving them bonus based on their grades, it stresses the teachers more and sends more teachers packing and leaving. :sad:
Seems like RV has a lot of teachers who are ex- RV students. Wonder if it is the ex-students who request to teach in RV or the P who request for ex-students. :scratchhead:

[WeiHan]

sall:

daisyt:

Hi Fairy, 节哀顺变, haha. I would say something is wrong with MOE. The system is not attracting good & enough teachers, especially local teachers. So now starting import FT teachers too lor.

The system is so stressful that even good teachers cannot tahan and they quit. MOE tried to attract by increasing pay and bonus. But by grading teachers and giving them bonus based on their grades, it stresses the teachers more and sends more teachers packing and leaving. :sad:
Seems like RV has a lot of teachers who are ex- RV students. Wonder if it is the ex-students who request to teach in RV or the P who request for ex-students. :scratchhead:

Teachers have choice to choose the school that they prefer. According to one of my friend, he got every time he requested. many ex-RVian requested to teach there obviously.

[sall]

Hi Weihan, in the past, if teachers want to choose a school, they have to approach the principal of that sch. If the principal agrees to take him/her, then he’ll write to MOE. If the principal of the current sch that the teacher is still teaching in, refuses to let him/her transfer, then the teacher will have to stay put in the school. ( this is for transfer of sch) For new NIE graduates, then they can approach the principal before the posting results. It should be about the same now. But I don’t think teachers have so much freedom to choose what school they want to teach, otherwise all those not-so -good schools will have a shortage of teachers.

[WeiHan]

sall:

Hi Weihan, in the past, if teachers want to choose a school, they have to approach the principal of that sch. If the principal agrees to take him/her, then he'll write to MOE. If the principal of the current sch that the teacher is still teaching in, refuses to let him/her transfer, then the teacher will have to stay put in the school. ( this is for transfer of sch) For new NIE graduates, then they can approach the principal before the posting results. It should be about the same now. But I don't think teachers have so much freedom to choose what school they want to teach, otherwise all those not-so -good schools will have a shortage of teachers.

Yah...you are more accurate. I make it sound too simple. My friend has a Ph.D....obviously he sounds like he can transfer very easily....I didn't ask him further about the detail of transfering school.

[sall]

WeiHan:

sall:

Hi Weihan, in the past, if teachers want to choose a school, they have to approach the principal of that sch. If the principal agrees to take him/her, then he'll write to MOE. If the principal of the current sch that the teacher is still teaching in, refuses to let him/her transfer, then the teacher will have to stay put in the school. ( this is for transfer of sch) For new NIE graduates, then they can approach the principal before the posting results. It should be about the same now. But I don't think teachers have so much freedom to choose what school they want to teach, otherwise all those not-so -good schools will have a shortage of teachers.

Yah...you are more accurate. I make it sound too simple. My friend has a Ph.D....obviously he sounds like he can transfer very easily....I didn't ask him further about the detail of transfering school.

That's the power of a PhD

[rosecy]

sall:

Hi Weihan, in the past, if teachers want to choose a school, they have to approach the principal of that sch. If the principal agrees to take him/her, then he'll write to MOE. If the principal of the current sch that the teacher is still teaching in, refuses to let him/her transfer, then the teacher will have to stay put in the school. ( this is for transfer of sch) For new NIE graduates, then they can approach the principal before the posting results. It should be about the same now. But I don't think teachers have so much freedom to choose what school they want to teach, otherwise all those not-so -good schools will have a shortage of teachers.

seems like this time round all the NIE trainee teachers who were in RV last term are all posted back to RV. maybe change in posting policy by MOE? previously trainees always come and go.

[sall]

rosecy:

sall:

Hi Weihan, in the past, if teachers want to choose a school, they have to approach the principal of that sch. If the principal agrees to take him/her, then he'll write to MOE. If the principal of the current sch that the teacher is still teaching in, refuses to let him/her transfer, then the teacher will have to stay put in the school. ( this is for transfer of sch) For new NIE graduates, then they can approach the principal before the posting results. It should be about the same now. But I don't think teachers have so much freedom to choose what school they want to teach, otherwise all those not-so -good schools will have a shortage of teachers.

seems like this time round all the NIE trainee teachers who were in RV last term are all posted back to RV. maybe change in posting policy by MOE? previously trainees always come and go.

I think either the P requested for them or they requested to be back. In other schs, not all trainees went back. Also depends on vacancies.

[WeiHan]

But I am more open minded, I think the school shouldn’t just request for alumni to be teachers. It is also not necessary to choose an alumni to be the principal even though it will be nice if there is a suitable candidate. Ek Soo Ben isn’t an alumni of RV but I think she has contributed alot through her knolwedge in education.