Why Do Teachers Compensated Appropriately
Are Educators compensated appropriately?
Are Educators compensated appropriately? As a society we view our jobs as a way to make money to support our lives and our families. What is meant for many of us are is that we have jobs as a basis for financial support. For others jobs can provide personal value and a sense of accomplishment. In actuality, we all need to work to pay our bills, earn money to eat, and raise a family, fairly textbook for most of us. However, there are a select few individuals who actually get to do what they love and get paid for it. These opportunities are rare at best for most of us. Many are in support of those that have a job and love doing what is needed. In some cases it is a reward …show more content…
(Leigh 2012) In this study Leigh found that there is a direct correlation to student results if better teachers were hired. This is an economic disparity of sorts as in our current employment market for teachers “Forty seven percent of America’s kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers come from the bottom one-third of their college classes (as measured by SAT scores). The figure is from a study by McKinsey & Company.(Kristoff, 2011). I think that we should pay our teachers what they are worth and hire the best to teach our …show more content…
Most started around 7:30-8am every morning. But, this is not a job that ends once the children leave for the day. Most are teaching 4-5 hours a day. They are having duties within a school to do such as hall duty, playground duty, or even lunch duty. When these extra duties are required, most teachers don’t get a break. They only get lunch break. Between classes, grades are marked, lessons are prepared, and teachers are already thinking of what the next day or even the next week should bring. (Guardian Readers, 2013) Next there are duties that require teachers to go above and beyond the regular workday. Things like parent-teacher conferences, school events, and faculty meetings make their workday very long. Some teachers also help kids after school that struggle. If the stipulation was enough, most are using off time like weekends and school breaks to stay on top of managing the day to day aspects. Teachers often stay up later on school nights to finish their day’s work. With lesson plans and papers to grade, one would wonder how they manage the day to day duties outside of
Are Educators compensated appropriately? As a society we view our jobs as a way to make money to support our lives and our families. What is meant for many of us are is that we have jobs as a basis for financial support. For others jobs can provide personal value and a sense of accomplishment. In actuality, we all need to work to pay our bills, earn money to eat, and raise a family, fairly textbook for most of us. However, there are a select few individuals who actually get to do what they love and get paid for it. These opportunities are rare at best for most of us. Many are in support of those that have a job and love doing what is needed. In some cases it is a reward …show more content…
(Leigh 2012) In this study Leigh found that there is a direct correlation to student results if better teachers were hired. This is an economic disparity of sorts as in our current employment market for teachers “Forty seven percent of America’s kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers come from the bottom one-third of their college classes (as measured by SAT scores). The figure is from a study by McKinsey & Company.(Kristoff, 2011). I think that we should pay our teachers what they are worth and hire the best to teach our …show more content…
Most started around 7:30-8am every morning. But, this is not a job that ends once the children leave for the day. Most are teaching 4-5 hours a day. They are having duties within a school to do such as hall duty, playground duty, or even lunch duty. When these extra duties are required, most teachers don’t get a break. They only get lunch break. Between classes, grades are marked, lessons are prepared, and teachers are already thinking of what the next day or even the next week should bring. (Guardian Readers, 2013) Next there are duties that require teachers to go above and beyond the regular workday. Things like parent-teacher conferences, school events, and faculty meetings make their workday very long. Some teachers also help kids after school that struggle. If the stipulation was enough, most are using off time like weekends and school breaks to stay on top of managing the day to day aspects. Teachers often stay up later on school nights to finish their day’s work. With lesson plans and papers to grade, one would wonder how they manage the day to day duties outside of