Skip navigation
Home > Instructors > Topics & Resources > Other

Back

Article: Should Canada offer merit pay to teachers?

Added by
NewsletterContributor270
Feb 10, 2010 13:13 EDT

Average Rating: (0 ratings)

Rate and/or Comment on this resource

Post a full review of this resource

See reviews in sidebar

Description

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/should-canada-offer-merit-pay-to-teachers/article1458317/

Should Canada offer merit pay to teachers?
Some U.S. schools are offering bonuses or salary increases to standout educators
By Erin Anderson
Globe and Mail
 
 
 
Sometimes, on their sleepier days, Wayne Phillips encourages his Grade 3 and 4 students to stand on tables and sing. When they arrived in class one day this week in the small community of Poplar Ridge, Alta., he had the volume cranked on the music video Human, by the Killers. He’s big on high fives and using funny voices to tell stories.
 
But what makes him a great teacher, not just an entertaining one, is his detailed lesson planning and, especially, the fact that he reinvents those plans every summer. Even after 24 years of teaching, he tries new strategies – making a racing game of geography, for example, by drawing a map of Alberta on the floor. He teaches responsibility by assigning jobs in class for which students apply (with résumés), are paid (in “brain bucks” to be spent in a June silent auction) and can be “fired” for poor work.
 
(click on the link above to read the whole article)

Related Files

-none-

Details

Article: Should Canada offer merit pay to teachers?

Relevant Subject and Topic
Other
Career and Life Skills

Types
Article
Case Study

Features
Informative, Educational, For Individuals, Text

Format
Webpage
Print

Copyright Owner
Erin Anderson
Globe and Mail

Most Suitable For Use By
Instructors, Facilitators, Parents, Policy Makers

Age Appropriateness
Adult(19+)

Grade Appropriateness
Adult General

Geographic Suitability
All or Non-Specific
Canada

Language
English

Education Standards Maps

Comments

Rate Comment