Welcome Address by Minister Chan Chun Sing at Work Plan Seminar 2024

Mr Chan Chun Sing, Minister for Education, delivered a welcome address at MOE Work Plan Seminar 2024, which was attended by over 1,700 educators and school leaders.

In his speech, Minister thanked educators for their good work, noting that students continued to demonstrate strong fundamentals even with disruptions from the pandemic.

Minister highlighted the role that educators play in nurturing our future generations in a troubled world and encouraged educators to adopt new mindsets towards work. He announced measures to create more capacity for educators to upskill, such as in initiatives to streamline work and administrative duties, and to introduce more porosity for teachers to explore attachments. He also stressed the importance of setting clear boundaries around educators' roles, establishing baseline expectations for communication between teachers and parents. Additionally, he underscored the significance of leveraging collective capabilities through partnerships to support the holistic development of students.

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[MISDIGITAL]

I suggest that <OE should also include international private schools to actively participate in this work plan seminar. MOE to regulate school operators whether are they performing to MOE expectations. .

[fonglingchoong]

Thanks for making this video available so that all interested in our education priorities are in the loop. Keep it up!

[dorisaik]

An inspiring and well-crafted speech to our teachers. Good delivery. Mr Chan, Please, tell to our preschool teachers
There is a big shortage of preschool educators. Resignation is high.

[CheeSaiKim]

Wow. He is good in memorizing content for an 1-hour public speaking.

[leanne]

A brillant and a good minister who knows from grounds up, and speak truth.

[elsietan]

You are a good, kind, friendly, committed, brilliant Spore Minister for Tanjong Pagar, a devoted son, brother, husband and loving father.May Father in Heaven protect and watch over you.🙏🏻👨‍💼

[markusong]

Sir i Really feel the suffering when all this caring beyond the love of the people,

[ivangim]

Commendable. CCS is speaking without a prepared text in front of him.

[MemeChecked]

A 24 year old guy doing student care to past time. Can tell you this. You are working so much harder because of Ai, regardless of what industry sector you are in. Sadly to say the future generation are build to chase Ai.

[User--]

I knew one teacher waited for 5 years for sponsorship of degree course but school kept saying : 'you are still young, not your turn yet'. Finally she left and joined private school.
How many 5 years a person have?

[MISDIGITAL]

First Step is to make Singapore less reliant on Foreign Migrant. I fully agree with JTEO said in Parliament. The Conention to stand together to remove CECA in Singapore. GO LEAN !!! Measures to GO LEAN in Gov is step one. Step 2 Avoid Bloated MPs, Thailand has only 39 MPs and the youngest 37 as principal PM. Step 3 hiring MPs with overage this is just encouraging Ageing Population.

[SazalibinkamsirSazali-zuyo]

Wellcome if all public is🧑‍🤝‍🧑👬👫 Leaning about.🗣🤵🔑🌊🗝🌊🏇🏇

[markusong]

We as children are very innocent, just that environment, causing we children mindset into different character and person,

[Luke]

Thrusting this issue into the spotlight is certainly a good thing. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. The real issue is that many teachers are overburdened and this remains largely unaddressed up to this day in mostly primary and secondary schools.

[BBme]

If not most, lots of teachers never reply MOE and school based emails. Even some dont reply in communication app that they had given to parents. When you call the school up after weeks of no responding, the school said they had went home even its just 30 minutes after school students bell and will call back next day which always ended the third day. So MOE conclusion now is stop parents to communicate with teachers. Should parents take leave and queue up to meet the principals to talk instead? It will be long queue. Will the principal call up his team of gangs of counselor, teacher, 4 vs 1, to talk down to 1 parent?

He said why meet the parent in school? Does this mean MOE is abandoning parents teacher meeting anymore? This also means no longer parent and teacher collaboration or partnership.

[seahkokchin]

Good acting. GE coming, trying to gather teacher’s votes.

[nkc]

What a shame non stop speech by constantly looking at prepared scripts right below him, getting so much salary but could not prepare days before or remember what gonna cover in an hour seminar by mentioning main points follow by details in each column, who dare to bully sin teachers nowadays who dare not even little gifts during teacher days [ only boring thank you letters ] with some saying they are civil servants, time to wake up to change skola uniforms especially for girls’ ones with 2nd layer thick blouses för incorrigibly hot weathered sin n do remember climate change allows temperature getting higher time by time, n its already overdue why never educate kids from young not to talk too much n create noise pollution during meal time [ look at hawker center ], n to guide them from young return own trays n keep tables clean in canteen n rooms after use n not imposing fines [ real fine sin city ], too much emphasis on hardware too little on software produces only top academic results but poor gracious standard n low creativity

[jaketan]

Is MOE a learning organization? Or is it showing signs of organizational learning disability? Case in point: A typical year-end review where all teachers led by department heads were made to brain-storm and come up with ideas big and small. The P declared that the VP will compile all materials. By the next yearly review, another session where the previous year's materials were conveniently put away. And it goes on systemically, just another year.

[jaketan]

Too much talking makes an ideologue.
What is the first step you want most teachers, if not all, to take? Go along with school heads on decided agenda pragmatically, and then keep quiet during yearly reviews?
Tweak the school structures gradually based on unmentioned policy assumptions that it will work somehow, and need not compile unexpected input from ground operation for the purpose of tuning policy decisions as much as possible?
In how many steps are going towards whatever we are going to? In one big step, two steps or 10 steps over how many years?
What talking you?

[ericlim]

A MINISTER " SO FOND OF CHANGE " IT WORKS, 👏👏👍👍IF IT FAILED & DIDNT WORK, HE IS DONED !!! EVERYWHERE HE GOES, SEA OF CHANGE ???