What are the pros and cons of merit-based pay in education

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Assignment Task 1: Placement and Induction

Read and watch the lecture resources & materials below early in the week to help you respond to the discussion questions and to complete your assignment(s).

Read

- Rebore, R. W. (2015).

• Chapter 5

- Simple leadership techniques: Rubrics, checklists, and structured collaboration Download Simple leadership techniques: Rubrics, checklists, and structured collaboration

- Benjamin, S. (2011). Simple leadership techniques: Rubrics, checklists, and structured collaboration. Phi Delta Kappan, 92(8), 25-31.

Watch:

• Altadenaschools. (2009, June 18). Bill Gates: "How Do You Make a Teacher Great?" Part 1 [YouTube].
• Altadenaschools. (2009, June 18). Bill Gates: "How Do You Make a Teacher Great?" Part 2 [YouTube].

Discussion Topic: Merit-Based Pay

After studying the course materials located on Module: Lecture Materials & Resources page, answer the following questions.

1. Define merit-based pay and how it works in educational settings.

2. What are the pros and cons of merit-based pay in education?

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 200 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.

Assignment Task 2: Simple Leadership Techniques

According to the article, Simple Leadership Techniques: Rubrics, Checklists, and Structured Collaboration on Module: Lecture Materials & Resources page, schools and districts should institute a simple leadership technology - a combination of job aids (rubrics, checklists) and structured collaboration - in order to ensure that our best knowledge can be collected, broadcast, and grown.

Please respond substantially to the questions below:

1. What are some of the reasons given for the need to use this leadership technology?

2. Describe briefly Benjamin's 80/20 principle?

3. How does your experience dovetail with the author's assertion that "the education field has attention deficit disorder"?

4. To what extent do you use research in your work?

5. How have you used rubrics and checklists? How effective have they been in capturing quality and monitoring implementation?

6. What does "structured collaboration" mean to you, and how do you see it implemented in your organization?

7. In what ways does your organization foster accountability for implementation of research/best practices?