Journal Higher Teacher Salaries
This assignment provides you an opportunity to evaluate current problems with teacher performance in the U.S. education system and critique proposed solutions to close achievement gap among low income students.
Directions
null Watch this 13 minute video segment from 60 Minutes on an innovative charter school in New York that is offering higher teacher salaries as a model for increased quality of education and student performance. Consider the following concepts when viewing the video:
Classroom management
Structure of the environment
Tenure for teachers (good or bad?)
Criteria for retaining 'good' teachers at this charter school.
Watch Video
Charter school's $125K experiment
Duration (13:39)
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YouTube URL: http://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=HK3BfgN66VY
After viewing the 13 Minutes video segment, NYC Charter School's $125,000 experiment, you are ready to write a journal entry. Using the four points I provided for you above, discuss how they are relevant in the video. Discuss whether or not a program like this one could work if implemented nationwide? Be sure to consider what works about this program and what does not work.
Click the link above the title of this assignment and post your entry to the correct journal.
Subject and Section
Professor’s Name
October 19, 2018
Journal Higher Teacher Salaries
Teachers have always been essential in the development of every student. Through their knowledge and their ability to teach students to their utmost, the teacher’s ability becomes one of the most significant determinants of student achievement. However, in the experiment called The Equity Project, picking the best teachers to perform this function is one of the hardest parts in the quest to develop the best students. As stated in the video, while many schools have some of the best teachers in the nation, the presence of others who could not do the same decreases the overall effectivity of optimal learning. In other words, having a lineup of teachers that are plucked out from the bests is essential for the performance of the school. However, in order to further retain these tal...