On 5 Apr 99 at 19:50, George Bartow wrote:
> The system does not pay for performance. It pays for certification.
I'm a former teacher educator and researcher in education and of course,
that's the traditional way of doing it.
The problem, in brief, is that we don't know HOW to measure teacher
performance (or at least there is so much disagreement on that).
It's really the same issue in many professions, which is the flaw when pay
for performance systems are applied to areas where they just don't fit
well.
The issue, though, by having nothing, is that many people expect they
should be rewarded somehow for being "good at something", and pay is also
a recognition of work independent of the value of the money.
While we might wish this not to be so, for many it IS so.
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