EDUC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Merit Pay, Job Security
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Need a bachelor"s degree in another field (math, biology, etc. ) Get a contract with a school system and you teach for a few years while taking ongoing education classes: troops to teachers. Public"s view on who should be a teacher: high achieving students, brightest people they know, their own children. Making salaries more attractive: local supplements. Anywhere from to a couple thousand a year: paid benefits. Job security after working a certain amount of time. You get it after you sign your fourth contract. When you"re on tenure, the school has to go through a process to release you. You can still lose your job if your position has been cut. Don"t go to work and you don"t get paid for those days: hiring freeze. Schools don"t replace teachers who have retired, quit, or were fired: cutting out the arts. Cut out less popular sports (golf, tennis: increasing class sizes. Now class size can be in the 30"s.
