no harm applying.
why not apply to NIE with your cert and be bonded to them, you will have a course by NIE which will bond you to NIE for an estimate of 2-3 years but the course will be fully paid by NIE.
http://www.moe.gov.sg/careers/allied-educators/
http://www.moe.gov.sg/careers/allied-educators/learning-behavioural-support/
i believe the above website which u access before will help.
the 2nd link will be more closely related to what you wanted and the details are as followed by the chance of you getting it are pretty high if you bond yourself, sign up as a relief teacher within some of the school and ask for referral letter from the principal, that will help more after you finish your relief teaching
You can give it a try to apply though generally they are giving priority to poly and local uni grads.
u can still continue to do it ur own way
do not need to be part of the system
esp a system u diss
Originally posted by Jovi1988:Thanks for the advice guys. To know that the education system here is biased is very demoralising to say the least. For MOE to reject applications solely on the basis of international qualification seems trivial, and that really does not help benefit those with special needs and especially educators who have strong and true passion in helping them. It’s really sad to see most of these students get left behind in mainstream schools. I used to work as a student care teacher at a local primary school, and I’d seen some terrible attitudes coming from a few AEDs who were clearly in this job for the money. Sorry for the digression, but I’ve such strong passion in teaching and helping students with dyslexia, hearing impairment, and a variety of communication/speech-language disorders, that to see that passion die here is really depressing.
that is the kind of govt we have. Just too bad! Vote them out
someone i know of just got the job as allied educator, a poly grad, will go through training and thereafter start work. receive salary as usual during training.
learning n behavioural support.
politics or no politics , the fact is the top in the country are the ones that move things on whether you like it or not.
Remember, singapore is still very much a qualifications base country thus previous experience may not be the priority they select people for training and work for them.
jovi, i believe that there is no clear priority in giving to local diploma or university, in singapore we practise meritocracy, so you definitely can consider submitting your application but do ensure that your university is one of those recognise overseas university by NIE, for more information, call them up, they should be able to help you. from what i understand of those information that you mention, alot of your job experience is not useful in your application to NIE as private tutoring and chat moderator definitely do not help in application with NIE, as for being an allied educator, i hope you take the time to read carefully the job scope with NIE, its is definitely not of a fully fetch teacher of creating lesson plan and etc, so its would be good if you exercise pre-caution and do your research instead of relying on us to help you more, we can only help you that much.