Sunday, August 30, 2009

Examiner Editorial: Tough teaching assignments get recognition | San Francisco Examiner


Examiner Editorial: Tough teaching assignments get recognition San Francisco Examiner:

"San Francisco teachers will receive more money if they opt to work at one of the 25 lowest scoring schools in The City — instead of transferring to more easily controlled classrooms as soon as they build up enough seniority.

The San Francisco Unified School District incentive program pays teachers $2,000 more a year to remain in the more arduous assignments. There will also be an extra $2,500 bonus to teachers finishing their fifth year at hard-to-staff schools and $3,000 for completing eight years.

This largely symbolic monetary “carrot” could significantly help the district’s lowest achieving students. Educators have long understood that hard-to-staff schools have high turnover and are mostly taught by inexperienced teachers less skilled dealing with discouraged and somewhat unmotivated students."