Teachers' salaries should be based on the academic performance of their students.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
Many outstanding high school students who later go on to excel at university will credit some of their success to a particular teacher. Teachers play a huge role in students' lives and shape their interest in subjects. With the correct kind of nurturing and support, a teacher can really change the perspective one student may have towards a certain subject, and influence said student in an extremely positive manner. Ensuring that appropriate teachers are chosen for these position is of utmost importance. Selecting the right teachers, and compensating them accordingly, becomes an extremely important part of building a supportive academic environment.
The first benefit of basing salaries on student performance is teacher vetting. If it is a fact that salaries are based on student performance, only teachers who are willing to put in hard work to see their students succeed will apply for the position. There would be a clear objective to the teaching position. On a similar note, this also serves as an incentive to teachers who are already teaching to improve. If teachers feel that their students are lacking in certain areas, they can focus their efforts on revising difficult concepts, making amendments to the syllabus, or adding additional resources. Educators would then not only see their efforts in their student's performance, but would also be able to measure that performance by their salary.
Another benefit of basing salary on student performance is that it can incentivise students as well. If a student knows that their performance is likely to impact a teacher's livelihood, they would be more likely to put more attention and focus in to studying. This is similar to an employee handing deliverables to his or her manager in order to meet a deadline. Failure to deliver these deadlines does not only reflect poorly on the employee, but also reflects poorly on the manager, as it speaks to their ability to manage employees.
There are some circumstances in which this pay scheme may prove to be inefficient or unjust. For example, if a student is disinterested in academics, or is not willing to put in effort towards studying, this may reflect poorly on the teacher, despite the teacher's best efforts. Similarly, if a teacher is uninterested in teaching, they may simply give good grades to all of their students regardless of their actual performance in the class. Both of these problems, however, may be addressed appropriately with a review committee. If there is a board or body within the school that is able to review the sanity of the grading system, and asses whether or not poor performance is teacher based or student based, then these issues would not threaten the pay scheme.
Overall, basing pay on performance can incentivise both students and faculty. Faculty members will be more likely to improve their teaching approach and focus on student individually, and students will be more likely to put in more effort in studying and achieving good results. There are some circumstances in which this scheme may unfairly target teachers, or provide an illegal way for teachers to increase their salary, but these circumstances may be avoided with a proper governing body. This type of pay scheme is likely to create more motivated, driven, and academically rigorous institutions.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 166, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'teachers'' or 'teacher's'?
Suggestion: teachers'; teacher's
...their performance is likely to impact a teachers livelihood, they would be more likely t...
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Line 13, column 256, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[4]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'teachers the best'.
Suggestion: teachers the best
...lect poorly on the teacher, despite the teachers best efforts. Similarly, if a teacher is uni...
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Line 13, column 645, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...sanity of the grading system, and asses whether or not poor performance is teacher based or st...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, first, however, if, may, really, similarly, so, then, well, for example, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2794.0 2235.4752809 125% => OK
No of words: 542.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15498154982 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82502781895 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87480399896 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455719557196 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 875.7 704.065955056 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 11.0 1.77640449438 619% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.8990647875 60.3974514979 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.416666667 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5833333333 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.33333333333 5.21951772744 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.166807757301 0.243740707755 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.059660815892 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0319558249132 0.0758088955206 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109480062566 0.150359130593 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0195609202289 0.0667264976115 29% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.84 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 141.0 100.480337079 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.