Let me start with self - care, because this is the key to a long and
rewarding career as a classroom teacher.
Not exact matches
Ensuring quality
teachers in every
classroom by recruiting, training, retaining, and
rewarding teachers and school leaders; creating
career ladders and increasing pay for effective
teachers who serve
as mentors, teach in high - need subjects, such
as math and science, and who excel in the
classroom; and by identifying ineffective and struggling
teachers, providing them with individual help and support, and removing them from the
classroom in a quick and fair way if they still underperform.
As stated by Educators 4 Excellence,
teachers»
careers advance through an outdated system that
rewards time spent in
classrooms and graduate school classes that «have shown no correlation with
teacher effectiveness.»
The group's recommendations include increasing the starting salary by a third; creating a «
career ladder» so
teachers can be
rewarded for strong performance without leaving the
classroom; introducing bonuses for
teachers who receive top ratings on new
teacher evaluations; and paying more to draw
teachers to hard - to - staff subjects, such
as science or special education.
This is true, and it's a fine argument for focusing education policy efforts on sustainable
teacher quality reforms, such
as recruiting more academically talented young people into the profession, requiring new
teachers to undergo significant apprenticeship periods working alongside master educators, and creating
career ladders that
reward excellent
teachers who agree to stay in the
classroom long - term and mentor their peers.