COMPARING SINGAPORE’S TEACHING CAREER AND JAPAN’S
11/09/08 20:23 Filed in: Education
Yeah…
so I found out today, after I asked casually whether
teachers are ranked in Japan’s school system.
I don’t wish to bore readers with my rant and complaints about the teaching career in Singapore. Those of you who have been through it or is currently going through it will know about EPMS and work review and what it actually does to the teaching career and the kind of environment it creates in the staff room.
Japan is trying out that very same system, currently employed by the corporate world, THIS YEAR.
I was shocked.
I told the teachers what the situation is like currently in Singapore after so many years of ranking teachers.
Of course there are positive points about this idea IF its carried out well and unbiased.
The world is of course not really that fair. But that’s not the point.
Anyway, I found out the teachers’ union in Japan is trying to fight this decision by the government.
But judging by the fact that they are trying out this ranking system already for a year; I think it’ll just quietly be implemented without anyone raising an objection… Much like the the public sectors in Singapore.
Well…
I wished the Japanese teachers “Good Luck!”
I don’t wish to bore readers with my rant and complaints about the teaching career in Singapore. Those of you who have been through it or is currently going through it will know about EPMS and work review and what it actually does to the teaching career and the kind of environment it creates in the staff room.
Japan is trying out that very same system, currently employed by the corporate world, THIS YEAR.
I was shocked.
I told the teachers what the situation is like currently in Singapore after so many years of ranking teachers.
Of course there are positive points about this idea IF its carried out well and unbiased.
The world is of course not really that fair. But that’s not the point.
Anyway, I found out the teachers’ union in Japan is trying to fight this decision by the government.
But judging by the fact that they are trying out this ranking system already for a year; I think it’ll just quietly be implemented without anyone raising an objection… Much like the the public sectors in Singapore.
Well…
I wished the Japanese teachers “Good Luck!”
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