Pros
- Lesson plans provided. - Each class assigned an Ipad to aid teaching. - Lesser paper work compared to other Centres. - Quite relax and freedom to conduct lessons/activities in individual classroom with doors once you accustomed to the routine. - Aircon classrooms. - Can work to gain experiences.
Cons
- Alot of hidden clauses in the contract. - Not truthful during interview. - Only can resign in the month of Nov/Dec, otherwise need to compensate. Bonded every year. - Cannot look for other Centres within 1km after resigning. - Need to work on all Saturdays after resigned. - Need to repay hours even on annual leaves or mc because these leaves only covered you for 8 hours. Remaining hours need to repay. - Management instructions inconsistent. - Need to carefully check the salary, otherwise prone to credit wrongly. - Need to always chase for payslip. - Does not give teachers proper traninings. Still want us to conduct special curriculum such as STEM, cookery, speech-and-drama. - No lunch provided for teachers, need to see if there are any leftover from children's lunch. Otherwise, buy your own lunch. - Do not provide teaching materials and also does not allow teachers to claim for materials. - Required to do large group morning and evening assembly but do not provide microphone, want teachers to shout and scream only. - Unfair assembly allocation (some teachers need to do more than others). - Need to provide spouse's nric in order to apply for childcare leaves. Otherwise will not be approved. - Management does not have care much for the teachers. - Only one teacher can be on leave per day (there are about 25 teachers within the Centre). Have to fight for leaves. - Large children ratio with no additional help. (E.g. 1 teacher to 27 children in K2) - Many politics among teachers. Alot of gossips and small groups among teachers. - Super calculative and micromanage management.