Unleashing teachers’ potential

Click here for an interesting article about incentivizing employees. There is no mention of the education sector in the article, but the principles are easily extended to schools. 

At present, teachers get paid more if they take additional courses,  stay on the job for a long time, or get out of the classroom by becoming a principal, consultant, or union official. How much their students learn is irrelevant in most jurisdictions. It would take some careful thought, but if we can put a man on the moon we can surely devise ways to reward teachers (and principals) for better academic achievement.

Of course, those devising the pay scheme would have to care about student achievement, and at present I'm not sure any of them do....   H/T JE

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