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Teachers will have even greater incentive to teach to standardized tests rather than focus on the kind of critical and analytic thinking our children need to succeed in our world.
The state had recently adopted Common Core and PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) assessments; there was little incentive to teach beyond the bounds of the new curriculum.
I understand the complaints about the way it distorts teaching so that everybody has an incentive to teach to the test, but the fact is that without those tests and the accountability that comes with them, education reform would be far behind where it is now.
I am encouraged when this draft claims that teachers should have the time and space to range beyond the curriculum, but I get very nervous with all the talk of making exams more stretching, removing the incentive to teach anything non-exam focused.
But North Carolina has stripped its schools of any incentive to teach.
But will teachers have any incentive to teach in their free time?
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"It often created perverse incentives — to teach to the test, or to exclude from the testing pool the students most in need of help".
Yet, the schemes are also flexible: they can be designed to include schoolwide incentives, instructional team incentives (an instructional team is, for instance, all fourth grade teachers in a school), incentives to teach in schools with particularly low-achieving children, and incentives to teach classes that are particularly hard to staff.
Yes, contracts should be renegotiated so that the best teachers are given incentives to teach in the poorest schools, and yes, school systems should extend the school day and school year for low-income students, as many successful charter schools have done.
They could work together to create a system that educates the best students to become teachers, provides the right incentives to teach in the schools in which they can do the most good, and establishes conditions that make them want to stay, as well as enabling schools to more easily get rid of teachers who are not doing their job well.
Such improvements may entail coordinated national approaches to incorporate tuberculosis training as core aspects of the curricula of front-line tuberculosis workers, and the provision of training incentives to teaching staff in medical, nursing and laboratory technology schools to improve the quality of training at these levels.
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