NTUC First Campus reviews

Constant lack of manpower. Teacher child ratio, class is too big. Special needs children with no extra help given. Paper work ( wap, lesson preparation plan, evaluations, inquiry project lesson plan, inquiry project documentation, field trip documentation, and now HBL) Neverending workload Work OT almost everyday but they will not pay OT if you use it for finishing paper work. They only pay OT as per shift ( meaning taking care of kids) Weekly upload of photos Portfolios per child per semester. Taking care of parent's demands and admin work. Handling things that are not even in a teacher's jobscope. Working here is like working as a domestic helper (that knows how to teach) in a preschool centre.

Management keeps setting very high standards and implements new programmes for children and parents but not providing sufficient resources for teachers to use. While they have increased trainings for teachers, most of the new ones have to be done during our PERSONAL/ out of office hours (they say do it at your own time and pace). Have started implementing online programmes and a lot of video editing to be done by teachers but gives us a very limited and difficult to use video editing software. Took away MS office from our company laptops which made it more difficult to complete the never-ending paperwork. Initiates mindfulness and well-being programmes for teachers but it always revolves around 'identifying your stressors' (very repetitive over the years) and never actually doing anything about it- to lessen the workload. Yoga, etc. are scheduled during the children's nap time (which teachers should be using to finish off paperwork and have their lunch break) or after work hours.