HElp!!!!!!!!! DEBATE?

Question

Hey help me i have a debate on that we should have perfomance based pay for teachers. I'm in the negetative team and i'm the first speaker.

Answer 1

Performance based pay is a good idea to weed out the slackers, however, the students are not all equal. If a teacher has a good percentage of children who have problems with understanding English (or whatever the language of the country is), or emotional or behavioral problems then much of the teacher's time and effort is not spent on teaching something that will appear as good results on the students tests, thus the teacher appears ineffective.

Is that what you had in mind?

Many times the teachers making the most effort are the ones who will appear to have the worst performance. Compare an inner-city teacher with a teacher of gifted children who are self motivated and could do well even if the teacher didn't show up.

Answer 2

We have performance based pay at the university where I work for full-time faculty. This is based on annual FEDI (Faculty Evaluation and Development Instrument). The evaluation uses section weights for teaching, community services, etc., ICES means (Student evaluations of instructors), peer evaluations, teaching totals etc. Whether an instructor is given a pay raise or promotion is based on his/her FEDI scores.

I think that teachers need to get paid appropriately as the cost of living increases. You cannot expect good teachers to stick around when they cannot afford to live.

Answer 3

Performance based pay strongly discourages collaboration among teachers and the collaboration model is a current best practice. (Good luck with the debate!)

Answer 4

The only realistic argument to advance the negative side is that it would be difficult to appraise performance. Be prepared for a rebuttal explaining various ways to do so.

Answer 5

Teachers should be voluntary in old days and they want to teach because they willing to help and not for the money