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To better support our well-being, how can we foster a caring work culture and cultivate strong support networks for our school community?
a. As an individual?
b. As a school community?
c. As MOE?

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To continue building the capabilities of our fraternity, how can we keep developing ourselves to confidently prepare our children for the future?

a. How can we re-envision the role of the educator/MOE officer today? What skillsets will we prioritise?

b. How can we seize opportunities to learn within and beyond the education sector?

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a. priorities what is most needed/important. be mindful of our own needs (rest, exe, personal care)
our first calling is always to attend to our students need first.
allow teachers to take time-off, for personal/family matters, medical appt, without too much questioning.

b. reminders to one another, show care.  reassuring one another, reduce anxiety.
deep conversation with each other, providing support in school.
mentors for new teachers.

c. demands of teachers has increase, the Ministry has to do the change, change the system to allow things to happen. clearer rules to allow things to take place. reduce demands, increase teacher quota for all levels/department. (primary school teachers need it too)
the SLs in the school will have to be willing to follow through, let teachers go for their break and be recharged. more information needed for teachers to be aware on how to do it.

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Individual
- Self-check on mental wellness using the mental wellness chart.

Community
- Level bonding should be done termly within the department and with other departments on a termly basis playing game, etc.
- Hall-wide Zomba for staff.
- Make the sporting equipment, facilities and venues available to school staff and family members.
- X-box be made available to staff too
- During work week, organize activities so that staff can bring children to school and they are occupied while the parents work.
- Bring-your-child-to-work day.
- Celebrate staff birthday.
- Provide healthier refreshment/ breakfast/ lunch using the healthy plate as a guide.
- bonding activities should not be made compulsory.

MOE
- Provide resources for school to organize the above activities for the staff.
- Refine the staff evaluation process to make it even more developmental.
- Allow teachers to travel overseas once every 4 years during school term. (We always have to plan our trip during the school holidays. It will be nice to have a holiday during school term once every 4 years.)
- Plan for redundancy to allow staff to go for job attachment.
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a) (Caiwei) Be considerate. using of common items, facilities with care. Everyone's responsibility to take care of them. Ensure general cleanliness and maintenance of common areas.
(Aminah) Live up to school's values. Example, instill pride in  our students. We have to lead by example as role models. Be empathetic.
b)  (Aisyah) Recognition is important. Give praise or recognition in terms of lesson reflections, teaching practices. ROs to recognise. Draw inspiration from one another.
(Iffah) Have more staff bonding. Team building games. Due to COVID, to play via Zoom. Maybe SDWB can look into this. Should place more importance on this.
c)

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a) As an individual

·       Teacher needs to voice out if we have any issues

·       Proactive in seeking help

·       Gain more connections by talking to other teachers and learning about their perspectives

·       Better manage our time, utilising our free periods very wisely and clear whatever we have to do.

·       Have small treats for ourselves

·       Give yourself breaks when you need to, make time for yourself

·       Take a step back and reflect if you are spending too much time on something that you should not? Disciplining, focusing on “fixing” negative behaviour, instead of delivering lessons

b) As a school community

·       Reduce class sizes, not more than 35 in a form class

·       Middle managers- more structured to put in place to engage the JHs

·       To tap on Wellness ambassadors

·       It would be nice to have less afternoon activities for us to clear our work.

·       Daily chats without FTs

·       Having someone to talk to

·       Be a friend to someone - Listen, and be listened to

·       Healthy few-way relationships: Top-Mid, Mid-Down, Down-Mid, Mid-Up, etc. so that we can be transparent with one another, with little judgment - Gain more perspectives

·       Appreciate the 6pm cut-off time for texting in school chat
- improve the quality of school canteen food. This is our basis needs.
- workload allocation must be fair and balanced. Should not whipped the willing horse.

c) As MOE

·       Provide more resources in class such as IPads readily available at all time.

·       Rolling out care packages for staff by termly/bi-termly basis

·       Have birthday leaves for staff

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- To respect each other's boundaries - to open up and share about what we are comfortable with and not
- As coordinators, we should plan ahead so as not to add on to stress of the teachers
- To ask how others feel about work given to them
- As teachers, we do have a lot of things on our plate and some "small small" things add up to quite a large workload and more stress.
- MOE provides guidelines to schools but different schools interpret the guidelines different and hence, the implementation processes are different. An example will be our WAs - different schools do WAs differently and parents become quite confused when they compare with others from other schools. Teachers will have to grapple with assessment, the implementation, explaining things to parents and so on. These things add a lot of unnecessary stress for the teachers.

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a. officers can be more aware of what is going on outside, choosing a private sector is a good opportunity to learn new things. eg. MNC to learn about their management. SLs/ middle management should go too. longer period of time would need to be consider. 1-2 years to truly immerse in their culture, 6 months might be too short.
SLs expectations on what is useful for our/school/fraternity's development. (supportive to teachers decision)

b. be clear on what we want to learn, how it is going to be done, how it benefits ourselves and the fraternity. (restrictions and requirements when we are applying for such leaves)
having a growth mindset, life long learning, skills that are complimentary to our teaching, not limiting it to just closely related to teaching.

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1)
- Periodically update teachers of the latest ICT trends use by students so that we can relate better to them.
- It is good for teachers to share, however, we need to ensure that all teachers are present during the sharing. Set aside time during CTN for the sharing.
- SLS mini-workshop is good because of the hands-on session. I like it because it is done in a smaller group with people from our own department. The synergy is better as we can immediately plan for our department and we can also immediately ask for clarification.
- Soft-skills will be important. Teachers need to be equipped with the people skills and to be equipped to develop the the skills in our students.

2)
- To learn beyond education. Invite speakers in jobs that are not conventional to speak to students and staff. (Ex-students may be asked to share. Parent volunteers are possible candidates for this.)
- Job attachment for a term. e.g. Haryati was attached to KK. School need to plan for redundancy for this to happen.
- We might also be attached to SEN schools, like METTA. We can also do cross-level attachment too, e.g. primary school teachers attached to secondary school and vice versus. Attachment to ITE would be interesting too.
- AEDs, CMT and School Counsellors to be equipped with information regarding secondary schools "uniqueness" so as to better counsel P6 students.

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1) Skillset- Teaching pedagogies, e-pedagogies, facilitation skills, conversational skillsets to manage parent's expectations, looking out for student's mental well-being, being adaptable, classroom management. STP - Skillful teacher. To have Stephanie share with staff on STP.

2) "Sabbatical" - ? years of teaching. Teachers can apply for work attachment. To have open classroom. PT. The main issue is teachers are not available to attend the open classroom. Video the teacher's lesson. The benefits of video help teachers to review and reflect on their lessons as well.
Feedback given.

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Part A
-Very important to build and model on the growth mindset.
-Go to try working in a different environment, go to different sectors in the ministry and have ideas
-Adaptability is important to accept new changes and to have an open mind to learn; help each other to grasp new changes, eg in helping with ICT skills in HBL lessons

Skillset- prioritise lesson planning for new teachers

Part B
-Grab the opportunity for work attachments in another sector; great to learn from the experience
-Learn from each other by visiting lessons by teachers to share teaching techniques and ideas (open classroom)

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A)

·       To develop our soft skills as to allow us to communicate with our students better. Build relationships and solve problems

·       Teachers to be more adaptable with changes

·       Foster relationships to work together

·       Build teacher-student relationship, for students to feel secure and motivated.

·       Openness to receive feedback and giving yourself space to listen where parents are coming from

B)

·       Teachers to get opportunities to go to another school to experience how their school programmes are conducted.

·       Teachers who have worked in private sectors can share real-life experiences to students. Students will be able to realise why values are important in life, as working life demands are different, such as meeting deadlines, managing own behaviour, etc. Private sectors may not be as forgiving like in schools.

·       Teachers to lay out demands and responsibilities of different jobs. Students must pick up values to prepare them for the jobs that they want.

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1st concern - What will happen to our lessons and students when we are away for TWA?

2nd concern - If we go our for TWA, will there be specific work deliverables when we return to school? For example, if we are interested to learn more about broadcasting and video editing and have applied to go to Mediacorp for TWA, will we be expected to be the TIC or one of the TICs of Tech Club / be in ICT department when we return to school?

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As MOE- To relook at revising pay scale. It has been 6 years since there has been a revision. Especially with higher skillsets required of teachers beyond teaching, there should be a revision of the pay scale.

As School - More bonding sessions. Maybe have level bonding sessions at the end of each term. Aznani highly recommend makan session. Aznani will treat.

As an individual - Self-care comes first. Buddy system within the department or level. Continue to look out for our colleagues and provide support. To provide support for in house training programmes.