Merit Pay for Teachers

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Originally Posted by zthatzmanz28

I just wonder how merit pay will be used in SpEd classrooms. I have students with 60 FSIQ and they will never be able to do more than they are now.

No college.

No real job

Supported living or group home

Job coach

No more than simple addition maybe double or multiple digits

Subtraction with out regrouping

And now my pay or even my job will be assessed on what "progress" a 60 FSIQ student does or does not make in a school year or standardized test?

You're right.
Similarly, I have very good students who like to come to school. The majority are from two parent households. The parents review their homework, discuss with their children what I post online, show up to conferences, get their children to bed on time, feed them... My students enjoy coming to school and want to learn. Compare that situation to one where the students put themselves to bed, may or may not eat a good breakfast, and don't want to be in school. Merit pay will keep good teachers away from the second situation.

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Originally Posted by zthatzmanz28

I just wonder how merit pay will be used in SpEd classrooms. I have students with 60 FSIQ and they will never be able to do more than they are now.

No college.

No real job

Supported living or group home

Job coach

No more than simple addition maybe double or multiple digits

Subtraction with out regrouping

And now my pay or even my job will be assessed on what "progress" a 60 FSIQ student does or does not make in a school year or standardized test?

In theory it would be easier. Note I said in theory for the following reasons:

Special Education students have their IEP which has performance goals in it that are signed off on by the parent. That in theory establishes a bencmark to measure student performance by for evaluation purposes. That student progress translates into teacher performance etc etc etc in theory.