The idea that there are great teachers just keeping their great lessons to themselves because they don’t get paid extra, is, to me, the biggest mistake people defending the zombie idea of merit pay make.
The idea that there are great teachers just keeping their great lessons to themselves because they don’t get paid extra, is, to me, the biggest mistake people defending the zombie idea of merit pay make.
[…] Nowadays trust in teachers in many countries is, euphemistically put, in peril. We doubt our teachers, where we can have doubts in our medical care, we don’t mistrust the professionalism of our doctors. One of the reasons for this difference is probably we all seem to think we know how to teach or know something about schools as we’ve all been students once. So, we turn to tests and other kinds of quality checks. Which can have some good effects. Regular small tests do help learning. Countries and people invest a lot of money in education, so quality has to high and needs to be evaluated. But there are many different ways to deal with this. And there can be bad consequences too. […]