Top Reasons Why Many Public-School Teachers Remain Teacher I

Rey J. Mediavilla

Many of our public schools still have Teacher-I even though they are old or retired. At their age, their status should be Master Teacher or MT now, but they also have factors to handle, so they remain T-I even if they are retired. Here are some of the reasons why there are so many T-I retirees in our schools:

They are satisfied with being the teachers they are used to

Others are content with their current job as Teacher-I and have no plans to advance. Being a master teacher no longer on their minds because they expect to retire soon, so it's fine for them to stay.

They get a lot of money, so they don't have to raise their salary.

A teacher's compensation is expected to go up as they advance in their career. This is one of the most important reasons why individuals seek a promotion: it is accompanied by a pay increase. Some teachers are content with the teacher's wage since they no longer require a promotion. Assume, for example, that all their commitments to their children have finished and that they are now in charge of raising their children.

Others are too lazy to go to the district or division office to investigate or prepare their appropriate documents. Some teachers are complacent because they are middle-aged and sick, and they wish to retire even though they are just Teacher-I. They don't want to become weary of compiling the documentation required to get the position. They didn't get a master's degree because they said they were old, so they would only give it to children. Others do not obtain the master's degree necessary for advancement. It is worth noting that young teachers frequently precede the pinnacles of their careers.

They don't want to follow the trend of innovative technology, so they can't work on their papers.

Most of today's retirees do not wish to learn about current technology, so they are sluggish in preparing their papers, which they still do on a computer. They do not want the kind that requires encoding and the use of a computer since they are no longer interested in employing technology. The reasons I've mentioned here may not be true for everyone, but they are typically true for about 90% of the teachers in the Philippines.

The author

is Teacher

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II at Oton Central Elementary School, Schools District of Oton, Schools Division of is

Iloilo