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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If there was really a teacher shortage, teachers should trade tenure protections for higher pay. No district is going to needlessly fire a good teacher if there's a shortage, and Republicans would probably get behind it, particularly if it included a [b]pay-for-performance[/b] element.[/quote]

How would that work? Extra hours? Stipends for extra duties? How would performance be measured for pay?[/quote]

The main things that come to mind are standardized tests and principal/peer evaluations. [/quote]

Only a few subjects have standardized tests.  Using standardized tests would punish teachers working in lower achieving schools.  Principal and peer evaluations are too subjective and personal.  It it also a huge amount of work for those staff.[/quote]

You do realize almost every other job has similar challenges, right?  Pay raises are almost always primarily determined by subjective performance evaluations by your supervisors and sometimes peers.[/quote]

Most people get pay raises by changing jobs, companies don't have much incentive to give raises unless they have to.  Teachers can't easily change school districs to get pay raises without losing some part of their tenure, salary scale or even pension.[/quote]

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