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Can Merit Pay Accelerate School Improvement?

Can Merit Pay Accelerate School Improvement?. Yes: Steven Malanga No: Al Ramirez. What is Merit Pay?. Controversy?. What is causing this Controversy?. Accountability !. Why Wouldn’t Merit Pay Work?. Unfair implementation No endorsement by teacher unions Create poor teacher morale

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Can Merit Pay Accelerate School Improvement?

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  1. Can Merit Pay Accelerate School Improvement? Yes: Steven Malanga No: Al Ramirez

  2. What is Merit Pay? Controversy?

  3. What is causing this Controversy? Accountability !

  4. Why Wouldn’t Merit Pay Work? • Unfair implementation • No endorsement by teacher unions • Create poor teacher morale • Legislatures who support them leave office • They cost too much and are difficult to administer Is your hard work worth anything?

  5. Thomas Hoerr’s guidelines for fair evaluation of teacher performance: • There must be trust between the administration and faculty • Judgments must be treated with confidentiality • There must be recognition that both what is valued and how it is measured will vary by context • Teachers who do not perform satisfactorily and do not respond to supportive intervention should not be rehired

  6. What does Steven Malnga think about Merit Pay? Are the teachers unions right? Is there any proof that merit pay works? Cincinnati Public School system State of Iowa Denver

  7. What does Steven Malnga think about Merit Pay? Will it work over night? What about group bonuses? Until teachers are part of a pay for performance system, students will continue to get short changed, regardless of how much their teacher take to the bank.

  8. What does Al Ramirez think about Merit Pay? Why cant teachers and administrators be “incentivized”? Is merit pay in the business world truly based on contribution or status?

  9. What does Al Ramirez think about Merit Pay? Is anything wrong with the way teachers are paid now? What do the critics say about the current system? What about the compensation systems of the past? Teachers who stay in teaching naturally become better teachers!

  10. What does Al Ramirez think about Merit Pay? What truly motivates Humans to perform well? Fredrick Herzberg Abraham Maslow William Glasser W. Edwards Deming

  11. What does Al Ramirez think about Merit Pay? Dud Silver Bullets What does the research of Donald Campbell and Ho-Beng Chia show? They concluded that pay for performance programs raise problematic issues related to measurement, performance appraisal and feedback, and the desireability of the reward.

  12. What do some local teachers think about Merit Pay? All for it…just do not tie test scores to my pay!

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