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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (95111)11/10/2008 9:12:06 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 541777
 
I think you could pay teachers based on performance if you measure it in other ways- quality of lesson plans; quality of classroom observations- and I'm all for those ways, because they measure the excellence of the teacher, and not the vagaries of who the teacher might have in her class.

I posted the article because it surprised me. I have enough experience with performance management systems to understand that you don't rate people on things they can't control let alone use them as a basis for merit pay. I was surprised at the assertion that if kids aren't successful it's all the school's fault. And even if teachers could control what students learn, there's the question of whether those tests are a measure of it.

Unfortunately, the alternative is to pay teachers all the same or based on seniority, neither of which gets you better performance.

Perhaps there's a combination of factors that could be used to determine some portion of salary. But it seems to me that the most useful thing to do is to retrain or get rid of the poorest teachers. Probably everyone in the school knows who they are. I have some experience with merit pay and I am not sanguine that it can be made to work, at least not without an enormous outlay of effort that would be better invested in the kids.
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