Nancy Flanagan and Lori Nazareno request that you submit questions about teacher performance pay now for a live online chat on June 6, 2007, 4PM.
…novice teachers could make as little at $30,000, while experts could make up to $130,000 per year depending on their performance.
Earlier this spring, a panel released a report that strongly advocates performance-pay systems for teachers. Flanagan and Nazareno served on that panel of 18 “experienced” teachers.
They seem like competent, serious people. While they advocate for themselves and other teachers, they assert that students deserve increases in teachers’ pay. They link by logic more teacher preparation and assessment to increased student performance.
Perhaps they will clarify what place objective empirical data have in linking increased teacher pay with increases in student academic performance (learning rates).
It seems on the surface that increasing investment in state-of-the-art technology, such as Tablet PCs, UMPCs, and other mobile PCs, would yield student learning increases faster and more directly without the appearance of teachers’ self-serving.