Teacher Merit Pay
Running Head: TEACHER PERFORMANCE AND MERIT PAY 1
That’s Not Fair: Teacher’s Performance Based on Pay
TEACHER PERFORMANCE AND MERIT PAY 2 Abstract There has been a huge debate on whether or not teacher pay or performance pay is a positive thing because there are no real guidelines. Many good points are brought into this debate as there are bad points. In theory, performance and merit pay sound great and solve all problems, but this is where the argument begins. What teachers are considered eligible to receive merit pay? Are standardized tests a good way to indicate improvement? Should students with learning disabilities be a contributing factor to merit pay? As a result to all these questions, all of them have some sort of error. One cannot give a school merit pay based on a certain criteria. There should be a lot to consider when determining whether or not merit pay is a good idea.
TEACHER PERFORMANCE AND MERIT PAY 3 That’s Not Fair: Teacher’s Performance Based on Pay When one walks into a department store and an employee walks up to them and asks if he or she needs any help finding something, well they are most likely working on commission. Commission is done mostly in department stores, and it is where an employee has a base salary but he or she gets money for selling a certain amount of items. Employees who work on commission usually come off as pushy and annoying, but they are only being persistent because that is their job. This is why many customers do not like shopping at stores who pay their employees on commission. This is much like merit pay. Merit pay is when a teacher would receive more money for a student’s achievement. It sounds great. It may be, but there is more to it than what people think. When one digs down deep there are many factors when
That’s Not Fair: Teacher’s Performance Based on Pay
TEACHER PERFORMANCE AND MERIT PAY 2 Abstract There has been a huge debate on whether or not teacher pay or performance pay is a positive thing because there are no real guidelines. Many good points are brought into this debate as there are bad points. In theory, performance and merit pay sound great and solve all problems, but this is where the argument begins. What teachers are considered eligible to receive merit pay? Are standardized tests a good way to indicate improvement? Should students with learning disabilities be a contributing factor to merit pay? As a result to all these questions, all of them have some sort of error. One cannot give a school merit pay based on a certain criteria. There should be a lot to consider when determining whether or not merit pay is a good idea.
TEACHER PERFORMANCE AND MERIT PAY 3 That’s Not Fair: Teacher’s Performance Based on Pay When one walks into a department store and an employee walks up to them and asks if he or she needs any help finding something, well they are most likely working on commission. Commission is done mostly in department stores, and it is where an employee has a base salary but he or she gets money for selling a certain amount of items. Employees who work on commission usually come off as pushy and annoying, but they are only being persistent because that is their job. This is why many customers do not like shopping at stores who pay their employees on commission. This is much like merit pay. Merit pay is when a teacher would receive more money for a student’s achievement. It sounds great. It may be, but there is more to it than what people think. When one digs down deep there are many factors when