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Originally Posted by GGG
I think the lack of oppurtunity for advancement in teaching is a problem. Many good teachers put in a lot of hours to enhance their teaching and the student experience and there are other average teachers that do an okay job and poor teachers who are just waiting to get their pension.
In the private sector the top people are rewarded the middle group keeps their jobs and recieves smaller raises an bonuses and the bottom group gets the crappy projects, smaller raises and are the first to be cut.
This does not occur in most union enviroments including teaching. As far as I understand very little of the pay is performanced based now I am not sure how you measure performance as testing is a poor way but there needs to be some sort of incentivization for good work.
I would say the government should widen out the pay scale and make it at least 50 % performanced based and far less tenure based. Also make it easier to fire poor teachers and replace them with the young eager teachers stuck on subs list. The union would never go for it but it would improve the profession and reward teachers who are good and allow teaching to function much more like private enterprise.
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You just hit two key issues. 1.) How do measure teacher performance in an objective way if using standardized testing as a benchmark is considered reliable?
2.) Public education IS NOT a private enterprise. It is an investment in our future as a society.
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