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Originally Posted by bcb
There's good and bad employees in every profession. Teaching is no different, and I doubt there is a higher proportion of crappy teachers in schools compared to other professions.
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Completely agree with but in other professions the top people move up and get raises and the poor employees don't and are the first to go in recessions.
What incentive is their for a teacher to perform? I am not a teacher so I really don't know.
If you were going to do performance based on standardized tests you would use the the amount of improvement a kid would have from year to year. So if you are teaching Grade English and your class is stupid (for lack of better word) and is reading at a grade 6.5 and at the end of year they got to a 7.5 you would have done your job.
Its in either Freakanomics or one of Gladwells books where they talk about how good teachers are able to get 1.5 years of development out of a class and poor teachers get .5 years of development. There has to be a way to measure and reward the teachers who successfully educate their students.
As you said before it is our future.