Teacher Evaluation and Compensation in the Singapore Education System

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Integrity, the Foundation

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People, our Focus

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Learning, our Passion

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Excellence, our Pursuit

Teacher Evaluation and

Compensation in the

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1. Overview of Singapore Education System

2. Ensuring the Best Candidates for the Profession

3. Building Capacity & Culture of Teacher-led

Professional Excellence

4. Holistic Teacher Evaluation with

Performance-linked Recognition

5. Towards Excellence: Galvanizing the Teaching

Fraternity For This Journey

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People, our Focus

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Overview of the Singapore

Education System

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Ability-based,

aspirations-driven, student-centric

(1997 – present)

Efficiency-Driven

(1979 – 1996)

Survival-Driven

(1959 – 1978)

• Diverse Pathways & Curricular

Flexibility

• Top-down support for ground-up

school initiatives

• Developing further peaks of

excellence in different areas

• Building a national education

system

• Bilingual policy

• Vocational

and

Technical

Institutions

• Ability-based streaming

introduced

• Independent & Autonomous

Schools

Education Development in Singapore

Education for social mobility

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31,300 teachers

355 schools

506,000 students

1,790 allied

educators

5,660 exec &

admin staff

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• Major initiatives and key

features

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Diversifying the Education

Landscape

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Creating a Learner-Centred

School Environment

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Providing a Forward-Looking

and Balanced Curriculum

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Building a Quality Education

Service

Key Features

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People, our Focus

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Ensuring the Best Candidates

for the Profession

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Attracting High Quality Teachers

• Admission into the teaching profession

- Selective admission

- Ensuring job fit through internship programmes

- Recruitment efforts locally and overseas

• Attracting Talent

-Teaching Scholarships and Awards

• Competitive Compensation

- Salaries pegged to market rates

- Student teachers receive salary while on

fully-sponsored pre-service course

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Retaining Good Teachers

A Multi-Pronged Approach-

4 Pillars of Retention

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TEACH Framework (2011)

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People, our Focus

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Building Capacity &

Culture of Teacher-led

Professional Excellence

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Building Capacity

• Pre-service Teacher Preparation

- Centralised full-time courses at the

National Institute of Education (NIE)

• In-service Professional Development

- Supporting Beginning Teachers through Induction and Enhanced

Mentoring programmes

-100-hr entitlement to professional development

- Supporting continuum of growth through Milestone Programmes

- Providing upgrading opportunities through Postgraduate

Scholarships and Sponsorships

- Providing resources through the Learning and Development

Scheme

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Teacher-led Culture of Professional Excellence

The Academy of

Singapore Teachers

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Ethos of the Teaching

Profession

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Academy Flagship

Programmes

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Subject Chapters

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Professional Focus

Groups

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Research

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Establishing Schools as

Professional Learning

Communities

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Building Professional Excellence

Other Academies

• Singapore Teachers’ Academy for the aRts (STAR)

• Physical Education and Sports Teacher Academy (PESTA)

• English Language Institute of Singapore (ELIS) and Mother

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Building Professional Excellence

• Working in partnership with

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People, our Focus

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Holistic Teacher Evaluation &

Performance-Linked Recognition

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Diversity of Pathways , Structured Progression

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Holistic Teacher Evaluation

• The

Enhanced Performance

Management System

(EPMS)

as a

competency-based tool

• Ongoing

evaluation,

feedback

and

coaching

• Holistic evaluation

through

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Performance-Linked Recognition

• compensation matters if you

want to keep good teachers,

therefore we strategically do that

by

linking performance to

bonuses and promotion;

• monetary rewards alone do not

sustain good performance

, and

as the teaching service matures,

we need to recognize teachers’

contributions through

non-monetary ways

Our approach to teacher reward

and compensation is centred upon

the belief that

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Performance-Linked Recognition

• Talent Management

- Future Leaders Programme

• Performance-based Compensation

• Promotion System

- based on performance and potential

• Recognition & Affirmation

- President Award for Teachers; Outstanding Young

Educator Award

- Others such as Caring Teachers Award and Most Inspiring

Teacher Award

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People, our Focus

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Towards Excellence: Galvanizing

the Teaching Fraternity for this

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Shift towards greater teacher empowerment, leadership

and ownership

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Under-gird professional growth in Ethos of the Teaching

Profession

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Beyond reward-driven, to mission-driven professionalism

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Retaining Areas of Strength

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Strengthening the “nerve

centre” of the Singapore

education system

 A concerted effort to

attract, retain and groom

a quality teaching force,

focused on the teacher

as a professional, an

educator and a leader

 Ensuring Strong

Partnership and

Building Collective

Capacity

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