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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Allan Odden; Carolyn Kelley |
| ISBN: | 0761978879 9780761978879 0761978887 9780761978886 |
| OCLC Number: | 46729445 |
| Description: | xvii, 243 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. How are teachers compensated? -- Current status of teacher compensation : pay levels and salary structures -- Winds of change -- The changing context of teaching -- 2. What have we learned from attempts at change? -- Three approaches to compensating teachers -- Some recent short-lived efforts to reform teacher compensation -- A time for change? -- Other factors supporting compensation reform -- 3. The elements of pay and compensation -- Traditional pay : pay for the job -- New approaches to pay : pay for the person -- Pay for behaviors or outcomes -- Benefits as part of compensation -- Conclusions -- 4. What is the relationship between pay and motivation? -- Theories of motivation -- Implications of motivation theories for compensation -- Applications to education -- Compensation factors that motivate teachers -- Conclusions -- 5. Rewarding individual teachers for developing and deploying needed knowledge and skills -- Knowledge- and skills-based pay -- Examples of knowledge-and-skills pay structures -- Other issues in designing knowledge- and skills-based pay structures -- 6. School bonuses for improved student performance -- Group-based performance awards -- Examples of performance awards in education -- Gain-sharing programs -- Conclusions -- 7. Designing and implementing alternative teacher compensation systems -- Compensation and school improvement -- Three design strategies -- Stakeholder roles -- Conclusions -- 8. Compensation to enhance teacher quality and supply -- Staffing challenges -- Compensation issues and innovations -- Resource A. Generic models of knowledge- and skills-based pay -- Resource B. Principles for implementing change in teacher compensation. |
| Responsibility: | Allan Odden, Carolyn Kelley. |
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