MCPS teacher with a PhD: what's your salary lane (Master's +30 or Master's +60)?
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Anonymous
| I'm recently hired as an MCPS teacher and trying to understand what salary lane I'm in. I took graduate courses (approx 50 course credits) to get my Master of Science. However, from Master to PhD, it's all independent research (no classes, no course credits). Does it mean none of my non-course PhD work count as credits when MCPS is deciding on the salary lane? Meaning, my PhD doesn't give put me on a higher salary lane? So, the Master +60 salary lane is for 60+ COURSE credit only? |
Anonymous
| They only count coursework. Your master’s gets you to “master’s”. +30 should be your required courses in education (assuming you are a career changer). Any coursework after your master’s will count towards the next 30 credits to get to +60. The PhD itself isn’t +60. They evaluate courses completed on transcripts. You can ask for an explanation from the cert office and they should be able to give a detailed listing of how your transcripts were accounted for. |
Anonymous
| DH used to work for MCPS (he quit in 21). He has a Ph.D in his field. I have MA +60 (I think I’m actually +90-something, but there’s no level for that). I’m year 21 and make what he made 5 years ago. |
Anonymous
| Why is there not a separate lane for people with doctorates? I work for Baltimore county and we get a separate (higher) scale than people with Masters degrees. |
Anonymous
| Here's a crazy idea. Forget about paying for degrees and pay people based on performance! I know it's crazy, right? |
Anonymous
Measured how, exactly? |
Anonymous
Salary should br based on both performance and degree attainment. |
Anonymous
| According to this, MCPS teacher's salary is based on degree attainment (course credits) and experience. |
Anonymous
What a crazy question. It shows how removed you are from reality. P Your performance is judged by how well your students perform. |
Anonymous
Crappy teachers with high income students do great at standardized tests Amazing teachers with low income students don’t do as well on them Should the crap teacher be rewarded with a higher pay just because the kids she teaches attend a school with high test scores, and live in 1 million dollar neighborhoods and are fortunate to have professional, highly invested parents? |
Anonymous
| Most likely not. You need 60 course credits. But, if you have a Masters plus 50 already then you would just need 10 more and it's not hard to get. MCPS will pay for 9 credits per year from outside places. And they offer some through MCPS as well - you pay for those but they are super cheap. |
Anonymous
Oh look! DCUM just solves decades of educational research in 2 minutes! (Duh, of course they did, because teachers are StUpId so we obviously couldn’t figure it out) |
Anonymous
Yep. Some people are just clueless on how school works but want to tell them how it should work. |
Anonymous
Then you would have an even bigger problem since nobody would want to work in high poverty schools. |
Anonymous
Oh that's so silly. You simply measure the teacher's impact before and after as compared to similar cohorts same with wealthy schools. |