Tying Teacher Pay to Student Performance
The education system has based teachers ' pay by performance. Therefore; there is no excuse for poor quality instruction. A teacher must have a commitment to children, plus a commitment to the pursuit of excellence while striving to improve student academic achievement as well as their own to keep up on the latest teaching techniques.
Now it comes down to how teachers are evaluated in order to have their pay tied to the performance of the student. First of all, a teacher needs to be able to have a support system that helps them obtain the goal at hand, which is increasing the performance of students not the money side of the aspect. The performance of the students should be the main focus and when teachers …show more content…
Is it worth it to put this type of pressure on the students that will make them have trouble succeeding because they are worried about how well they are performing and if they are where they need to be. Studies have shown that students do not perform well under pressure and they have problems concentrating. President Obama has a fund that is named after him; it is money that is set aside in order to aid the state in funding for public education that will protect teacher jobs (Hunter 2010). There is a difficulty in coming up with an effective way to measure the teachers’ performance and they are trying to find a way that works the best in order to give out performance pay to those who have earned …show more content…
The performance pay comes with the stress and pressures of making sure students perform well on these standardized tests and no matter how well you prepare a student when they sit down to take the test it throws them off track because of the way the test is weighed. Teachers can only prepare students for the materials for these tests. Pay that is based on student achievement is highly likely to lead displacement of other important education purposes and goals (Germain 2011). Concentrating on performance pay so much will take away how far the educational system has come and how much they have achieved in the past and how they are pushing forward to make a difference so that students have the proper tools to succeed at taking these standardized
The education system has based teachers ' pay by performance. Therefore; there is no excuse for poor quality instruction. A teacher must have a commitment to children, plus a commitment to the pursuit of excellence while striving to improve student academic achievement as well as their own to keep up on the latest teaching techniques.
Now it comes down to how teachers are evaluated in order to have their pay tied to the performance of the student. First of all, a teacher needs to be able to have a support system that helps them obtain the goal at hand, which is increasing the performance of students not the money side of the aspect. The performance of the students should be the main focus and when teachers …show more content…
Is it worth it to put this type of pressure on the students that will make them have trouble succeeding because they are worried about how well they are performing and if they are where they need to be. Studies have shown that students do not perform well under pressure and they have problems concentrating. President Obama has a fund that is named after him; it is money that is set aside in order to aid the state in funding for public education that will protect teacher jobs (Hunter 2010). There is a difficulty in coming up with an effective way to measure the teachers’ performance and they are trying to find a way that works the best in order to give out performance pay to those who have earned …show more content…
The performance pay comes with the stress and pressures of making sure students perform well on these standardized tests and no matter how well you prepare a student when they sit down to take the test it throws them off track because of the way the test is weighed. Teachers can only prepare students for the materials for these tests. Pay that is based on student achievement is highly likely to lead displacement of other important education purposes and goals (Germain 2011). Concentrating on performance pay so much will take away how far the educational system has come and how much they have achieved in the past and how they are pushing forward to make a difference so that students have the proper tools to succeed at taking these standardized