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Workable Teacher Pay Strategies

May 19, 2008

Innovative teacher compensation strategies seek to encourage and reward three major teacher behaviors: pursuit of expanded roles, improved classroom performance, and retention. Drawing on motivation theory, a pay innovation must meet three tests if it is to successfully motivate teacher change: 1) teachers must value the new reward(s), 2) teachers must see a clear “line of sight” between the desired behavior and the additional pay, and 3) teachers must believe that high effort will lead to the desired result. The ultimate test of a pay structure is teacher acceptance. More about teacher compensation is available here.