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A recent survey showed that teachers in Singapore work longer hours and grapple with more stress than their global peers. Besides teaching, they also plan learning journeys and school events, break up arguments and counsel students, and sometimes field after-hours messages from parents. Steven Chia speaks to former teacher Heidi Tan and Associate Professor Jason Tan from the National Institute of Education to find out what can be done to ease our educators' workloads.
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1. Teaching is planning, grading, caring and everything in between (00:00:00)
2. 30% teaching, 70% everything else (00:01:20)
3. What's the role of a teacher? (00:05:44)
4. Teachers as "service providers" (00:10:47)
5. Practicum vs real life (00:15:27)
6. Smaller classrooms and more manpower (00:18:23)
7. "Teaching is emotionally taxing on teachers" (00:24:42)
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