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Slide 15

Program Implications

  • Alternative routes to teaching
  • Adjunct and part-time teaching
  • Differential pay
    • For performance
    • For shortages
    • For schools of high-need
  • Time and support for professional development

Speaker's notes:

There are a number of policy directions that might be pursued to enhance the number and quality of science teachers. These include providing alternative, less time consuming routes into teaching for individuals who have science degrees. This would include possibilities for adjunct and part-time teaching. In most states today, it would be impossible for the physics professor who teaches several sections of intro physics to 19-year-old freshman at the local state college to take a part-time job teaching one physics course to 18-year-old seniors at the local high school. That is senseless. We also need to consider differential pay for math and science teachers, as well as time and support for professional development

See policy recommendations at http://www.theteachingcommission.org/publications/FINAL_Report.pdf

Odden, Allan. (2000, January). New and Better Forms of Teacher Compensation Are Possible. Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 81 Issue 5, p361-366.