Sunday, April 25, 2010

Good Teachers ---> Good Schools?

As I was reading my book, I found out that generally speaking, newer (and less experienced) teachers are sent to worse schools in districts. I suppose this makes sense, seeing how for the most part, our teachers are pretty experienced (Note: I say experienced, experience doesn't always make for the best teachers). The idea the author of my book has is (from what I got out of it) to put new and inexperienced teachers into higher preforming schools, thus moving the older, more experienced teachers to lower level schools.

A good idea, I guess, but wouldn't that just create a teeter-toter effect? I think so....good schools would become crummy and crummy schools would out preform most. My idea is along the same line, transfer some teachers that are experienced in their career to underachieving schools across the country, and move some newer teachers to better preforming schools. Keep a balance between experienced and new teachers, and maybe the education gap would even itself out. Then there's the question of how to keep teachers in bad schools, new teachers want a job wherever they can get one...but experienced teachers don't have that problem. The author suggested pay raises, which isn't a bad idea. However, I think that the government should intervene-- make keeping the ratio the government's responsibility. The government could place the teachers, seeing how they wouldn't be able to find a better job in education somewhere else, the government would oversee all of it. With that idea in place, the balance would be kept in place.

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