More About Pay

http://www.education-world.com/a_issues/issues/issues374a.shtml

This article discussed more in depth the issues that could arise with performance based pay among teachers. The one thing that I found most interesting about this article was the issue on how to measure teachers performance. There is so much controversy about standardized testing and whether it really works that there is really no way that that could be used. Teachers could begin to teach only for what the test is asking instead of what the students need just so that it looks like their students are performing. That is already apart of the controversy with standardized testing already but with the issue of pay along with it, there could be more problems than ever before. And what about those teachers who take more difficult positions in extreme conditions where the word performance is impossible to define. Without discussing how they are really going to measure the teachers performance it is impossible to decide whether this could be a good thing for our future students or not.