Top 10 Reasons Why Join MOE To Be A Teacher

Top 10 Reasons Why Join MOE To Be A Teacher

1) Attractive salary and benefits. Compared to most private sectors, the starting pay is higher. With the new GROW 2.0 Package, expect better competitive salary.

2) More free time with your family and friends. Lots of Long School Holidays. If you have children, the school calendar will typically allow you to have the same days off as your kids. Flexible unpaid-leave scheme. Work flexible hours. If you teach primary school in the morning session, class ends at 1pm. Thereafter you may need to stay for CCA or other activities, like marking and lesson preparation.

3) No need to climb the corporate ladder. No corporate politics. No rush hour. No lunch crowd.

4) Better Career Prospect. With the GROW 2.0 Package. Expect enhanced senior specialist track, further re-employment opportunities, future leader programme, revision to CONNECT plan, additional outstanding contribution awards, expansion of part-time teaching scheme, greater support for part-time teaching, enhancements to no-pay leave, greater support for post-graduate studies, and more in-service upgrading opportunities for non-graduate teachers.

5) Lots of opportunities for personal and professional development. Teaching a Subject Helps You Learn a Subject. You will never learn a topic better than when you start teaching it. A teacher grows with the student. Sharing the passion of learning through the student’s eyes, and to learn something in return

6) Teaching is an interesting and fulfilling work. When a teacher actually changes a student to be successful that others have written off as being unteachable, this can truly be worth all the headaches that do come with the job. Student success is what drives teachers to continue. Each student who didn't understand a concept and then learned it through your help can be exhilarating.

7) Autonomy in the classroom. A teacher in the classroom teaching, really are the ones who decide what's going to happen. Not many jobs provide an individual with so much room to be creative and autonomous each day.

8) Staying younger and happier. Being around young people everyday will help you remain knowledgeable about current trends and ideas. It also helps break down barriers. Sometimes it will be jokes that kids share with you. And sometimes students will come out with the funniest statements without realizing what they've said. Find the fun and enjoy it!

9) Affecting the future. Teachers mould the future of every student each day in class. A teacher makes some kind of difference in a student’s life, setting them on a path to success in school and life. If you like to see the child’s eye light up with understanding, you belong to the classroom.

10) If you are reading this, then it is a good reason to be a teacher!