Once again merit pay for teachers is in the news again. There are plenty of supporters, and plenty of detractors. You can read more about it here: http://newsok.com/article/3106229.
Let us know where you stand on it! Send us your ideas on merit pay for teachers today.
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We can fairly assess outcomes in the classroom for purposes of merit pay, when we can assure that each teacher's students are equal coming in. Test scores, poverty levels, numbers of abused children, numbers of ransient children, etc., must all be equal at the outset before we can judge a teacher on the outcome.
As long as we are at the mercy of standardized multiple-choice tests, we will not accurately measure learning. Merit pay is inherently unfair if it is based on multiple-choice tests, which do not measure creativity and higher-order thinking (in most cases).
I believe teachers should address creativity and higher-order thinking skills, don't you? They cannot if their pay is based on a test.
First, raise teacher pay above the regional average to attract more qualified people (right now we're shooting for average pay and we're woefully behind ). Then, measure teaching with many different tools, and then perhaps merit pay will be fair. But the Republicans don't want to pay for that, do they?
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