Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Should Teachers be paid based on Student Performance
In my opinion, I do not think it is right to base teachers' pay on the student performance alone. Some kids have a hard time taking tests and it isn't fair to take pay away from a teacher who did all they could to help the student. If a student is struggling on a subject it is the teachers job to try and do all they can to get the student to understand. I think that if teachers were paid based only on student performance that it would become unfair very quick. A teacher could be doing her very best and could be putting 100% into the child and their education and the child could still not understand. Tests do not reflect how good of a teacher you are. I feel tests reflect more of how much the students pay attention in class. On the other hand though, I think that this could be beneficial in a way too. If a teacher continuously doesn't meet the standards in her classroom, then it is obviously not just the students to blame. If this is the case, that teacher should be evaluated and their pay should fit the quality of work they are doing. Maybe the lower pay will be an incentive for the teachers who aren't meeting standards to strive to get all their children to meet those standards.
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This is another tricky topic that has pros and cons to it. I agree that teachers salary should not be based only on student performance if their performance is only gauged by tests, but if there are multiple ways that are used to test a child's performance and is tailored to the students learning needs then it may be possible to base teachers' salaries on student performance, but this can only happen once adequate testing has been be created.
ReplyDeleteI agree that continually bad testing could be a very good indication of a poor teacher performance in the classroom. Continually low test scores compared to other classes should put that teacher on probation or extra classes to work on getting them to the standards of the rest of their colleagues.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Brittany. There are way too many factors that should go into a teachers pay but student performance should not be one of them. There are simply too many different reasons why student performance would be low or high.
ReplyDeleteI agree there can be too many reasons for why the students may perform badly and it is not right to put them all on the teacher by docking pay.
ReplyDeleteNice comments, ladies! I think that some of the best teachers have the best performing students....how do we account for those situations? Wouldn't it be interesting if pay increased along with the teacher time spent in his/her classroom outside of the regular school day? Say, they received a bonus at the end of the year for accumulating extra hours clocked in their rooms. Just a thought....
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