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Kimberly Adams MERIT PAY

Kimberly Adams. Standard #9: Professional Learning and Ethical Practice 0 Definition : The teacher engages in ongoing professional learning and uses evidence

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Kimberly Adams

MERIT PAY

Standard #9: Professional Learning and Ethical Practice

0Definition : The teacher engages in ongoing professional learning and uses evidence to continually evaluate his/her practice, particularly the effects of his/her choices and actions on others (learners, families, other professionals, and the community), and adapts practice to meet the needs of each learner.

0Reason: I selected standard nine because learning about merit pay is learning about the profession and the effects of the practice of merit pay.

What is It?

0PERFOMANCE PAY0STUDENT TEST SCORES

0SUCESS OR FAIL0SALERY INCREASE BY $2100

TO $8900

Pros

0More Professional Teachers0Rewards Good Teachers0Principal Has Firing

Authority0Quickly Rewarding

Profession

Cons

0Negative reflect on Classrooms

0Merry-Go-Round salary Plans0Damages the teaching

community as a whole

Cons

0Bad Attitudes From Teachers-Makes teachers only want the

“Smart Kids that will score high(Nichols,2011).”

How I see it

Question….

0Is it fair to judge a teacher based upon a students

standardized test scores?0What kind of student

would you want to teach?

References

0 "Pay Based on Test Scores?." N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Nov. 2013.http://www.nea.org/home/36780.htm

0 "The Good & Bad of Teacher Merit Pay." Scholastic, Helping Children Around the World to Read and Learn. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Nov. 2013. <http://www.scholastic.com/browse/subarticle.jsp?id=1882>.

0 "inspirEDucation." inspirEDucation. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Nov. 2013. <http://inspireducation.wordpress.com/tag/high-stakes-testing/>.