Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament
Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang, Nee Soon GRC
Question
To ask the Minister for Education how does the Ministry monitor whether schools have appropriately reduced the teaching or CCA duties for teacher-counsellors to ensure that such teachers are able to balance their teaching and counselling workloads.
Response
Guided by MOE, schools have the flexibility to reduce the teaching or other duties of teacher-counsellors to provide them more time to counsel students with moderate needs. For example, some have reduced classes or committee work. The training and deployment of teacher-counsellors is monitored at both school and ministry levels to ensure they are adequately supported.