...Sunderland 1 Mr. Kastl 2nd hour 2/15/15 Teacher Tenure Teachers have one of the most vital roles in the upbringing of a new generation in our nation. Teacher tenure keeps passionate teachers in the job who want to affect the next generation in a positive way. Teacher tenure is necessary because it protects teachers from being fired for various reasons, it prohibits school districts from firing experienced teachers to hire less experienced and less expensive teachers, it protects academic freedom, encourages the careful selection of effective teachers, and it allows teachers to work more effectively since they are not in fear of losing their jobs. Teacher Tenure is a job contract that is guaranteed to a teacher, after a period of two to seven years in the position, that prohibits them from being fired without a rational cause. Prior to the protection of...
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...public education to upgrade its quality. The significance of teacher excellence is extensively acknowledged like one of the great important constituents of successful education and therefore policies that enhance teacher operation via the utilization of enticements are gaining impetus. In spite of several findings that enhancement in value is connected with momentous reduction in learners accomplishment. A study has previously pinpointed which teacher features are most problem-solving of value (Aaronson, et al.33). For instance, quantifiable teacher attributes such as race, sexual characteristics, education background, or periods for teaching practice) merely relate to three percent of the teacher’s control on student accomplishment (Goldhaber 20) .The teacher’s skill is never considerably connected with student success subsequent to the preliminary few years within a classroom (Rivkin 12). The findings propose that it is demanding to gauge teacher distinctiveness, for example personal incentive, job contentment, or tolerance and individuality are the principal agents of good performance. Plan most possibly to possess a great outcome on enhancing teacher value can thus be those which aim at positive alterations in these traits. Policymakers have endeavored addressing these matters via the assessment and realization of programs which provide motivations for educators to upgrade. One of such plan is the teacher tenure that generates...
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...Instructor: Course: Date: Teachers’ Tenure System Should Not Be Eliminated The course of considering the no kid left back bill in the year 2001 refocused America’s attention on endeavors towards transforming the Americans public education structure. Researchers as well as lawmakers are presently evaluating a range of strategies, starting from initiating new answerability standards towards encouraging school selection and contest, equally in an attempt to establish whatever modifications can be created to public education to upgrade its quality. The significance of teacher excellence is extensively acknowledged like one of the great important constituents of successful education and therefore policies that enhance teacher operation via the utilization of enticements are gaining impetus. In spite of several findings that enhancement in value is connected with momentous reduction in learners accomplishment. A study has previously pinpointed which teacher features are most problem-solving of value (Aaronson, et al.33). For instance, quantifiable teacher attributes such as race, sexual characteristics, education background, or periods for teaching practice) merely relate to three percent of the teacher’s control on student accomplishment (Goldhaber 20) .The teacher’s skill is never considerably connected with student success subsequent to the preliminary few years within a classroom (Rivkin 12). The findings propose that it is demanding to gauge teacher distinctiveness, for example...
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...Teacher unions have been intact for a long time, adapting to our ever-changing society and recently have caused a problem within the education profession. Unions were established to protect workers and to let them collectively bargain for wages, working conditions and benefits. In today’s society the teacher unions give teachers many benefits and protect them very well from being removed from their job once they receive tenure. A debate has risen concerning if teacher unions are harmful to public education and is discussed by many people in the education profession, parents and even students. An article written by Grace Chen, “Are Teacher Unions a Help or Hindrance to Public Education?” considers both sides of the debate and how they affect education reforms. Chen states how teacher unions have had a long history that has led to high teaching standards, ensurance of student achievement and rooting out corruption in the education profession. Chen brings up in her article that unions have a strong influence and teachers that are apart of these unions are more effective teachers than those who are not. This is the main benefit for students and parents dealing with public teachers in unions and as Chen continues she seems to believe there is more problems than benefits. Teacher unions make it extremely difficult to fire or dispose of unfit or harmful teachers in today’s society. Unions protect teachers so much that receive tenure it becomes almost impossible to fire them sometimes...
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...Academic Tenure A Brief Assessment by Robert M. Armstrong Chaminade University MBA Program singabob@gmail.com Fall 2013 The Ethics of Academic Tenure A Brief Assessment by Robert M. Armstrong Chaminade University MBA Program C THE ETHICS OF ACADEMIC TENURE by Robert M. Armstrong Most everyone at the University of Illinois agrees engineering professor Louis Wozniak can be a pain at work, even though he is generally well-liked by his students. Since August 2010, he has been on paid suspension from the Springfield campus after publicly embarrassing a student he believed contributed to his denial of a $500 teaching award. Yet, this month, in what is believed to be a first-time action by University of Illinois trustees, Wozniak’s 41-year tenure was revoked and his employment immediately terminated after making a(n untrue) joke online about remembering only the names of students with whom he’s had sex. While clearly showing poor judgment and a lack of sensitivity, Wozniak’s situation calls into question the ethical justification for academic tenure, which is the focus of this paper. I will briefly examine tenure’s unique role in higher education from its start to its present-day limitations and whether its institution is ethical, by both those who covet it and those who provide it. In the end, hopefully the reader will understand the forces at play and whether its continuation is merited at American colleges and universities of the future. Academic tenure was...
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...isn’t looked at as acceptable to the company’s policy on work behavior can in term be considered unprofessional. Therefore, all employees should be made aware of the company’s policy on professional conduct so that they wouldn’t engage in activities that can cause harm to the professionalism of any organization. According to the case study Ms. Pruitt is an elementary teacher for mentally challenged children was considered not fit to teach. In our text it states that Ms. Pruitt worked with mentally challenged children for a total of thirteen years. During that time frame she had nothing but positive feedback from the school principle and was often acknowledge as a reliable teacher. I do feel that the Board of Education did violate Ms. Pruitt’s rights to privacy and didn’t have any valid reason to fire her. An undercover police officer decided to show up to the “swingers” party and decided to charge Ms. Pruitt with oral copulation. Ms. Pruitt then paid her fine and was reinstated to teach. However, two years later the Board of Education decided that her behavior was immoral and that she shouldn’t teach around students. My argument is if that was the case why the Board of Education didn’t keep her teaching license, why wait until two years later to take action. It seems to me that the Board of Education are the ones being immoral. I feel that Ms. Pruitt’s lifestyle is private matter and that her sexual orientation had nothing to...
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...one coming with enough power to save us.” Just as many children look up to fictional characters such as Superman, parents look up to our school system to educate, if not raise, their children. However, too many of these parents are beginning to realize that an effective education, like Superman, is nonexistent. In Waiting for Superman, Davis Guggenheim addresses a failing public school system in America that is a result of teachers unions, ineffective teachers, and false promises, among many other factors. The director’s selective perception in the video Waiting for Superman purports that public education is incapable of meeting the challenge of providing an adequate education to each one of its students and hence, charter schools are the answer to fixing the problem with education in the United States. He focuses on the plethora of public schools robustly failing its students and the factors causing them to fail. He gives statistics and facts to support his arguments and emphasizes that which makes a great school or a great student, is a great teacher. He criticizes the public school system by calling the federal, state, local, and district boards a “tangled mess of conflicting regulations and mixed agendas.” He states “the things we’ve done to help our schools work better have become the things that prevent them from working.” He hints on how some political figures believed No Child Left Behind was going to “fix” education, but after a few years of standardized testing in...
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...CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study For the last few decades job satisfaction has been one of the most popular interests among scientists, researchers and practitioners. According to Spector job satisfaction is the most frequently studied variable in organization research. Job satisfaction was proved too be an important construct in emotional and psychological employees’ well being. It is a significant element related to good organizational functioning as well. Although, the phenomenon of job satisfaction has been broadly researched, still there are several problematic areas. First of all, the concept of job satisfaction has been described in various ways by a number of researchers. Lawler states that “overall job satisfaction is determined by the difference between all those things a person feels he should received from his job and all those things he actually does receive”. Locke defines job satisfaction as “the pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job as achieving or facilitating the achievement of one’s job values. Spector describes job satisfaction as “the extent to which people like (satisfaction) or dislike (dissatisfaction) their jobs”. Apart of those few definitions indicated above, there are many others that aim to explain the concept of the satisfaction. The lack of consensus which appears in defining the concept may lead to misunderstanding among researchers and research participants and may influence the construct...
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...University of Reading, Reading, UK Alf Crossman School of Management, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK, and Parkpoom Chinmeteepituck Novotel Lotus Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand Keywords Job satisfaction, Age groups, Hotels, Thailand Abstract Earlier studies suggest age is positively associated with job satisfaction, while others use length of service, or tenure, as a predictor of job satisfaction levels. This article examines whether age and tenure are individual determinants of satisfaction, or whether there is an interaction between the two. The results indicate that employee age is not significantly associated with overall job satisfaction level, but that tenure is. There is also significant relationship between tenure and facets of satisfaction (job, pay and fringe benefits), but the effect of tenure on satisfaction is significantly modified by age. The search for an understanding of the causes of job satisfaction or dissatisfaction is an ongoing area of interest for social scientists and managers; the premise being that satisfied workers will be more productive and remain with the organization longer, whereas dissatisfied workers will be less productive and more inclined to quit. Early studies (Myers, 1934; Maslow, 1954; Herzberg et al., 1959) concentrated on the importance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and rewards towards satisfaction, but few paid adequate attention to the impact of demographic and occupational variables. More recent...
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...you see in Waiting for Superman, the new documentary that celebrates the charter school movement while blaming teachers unions for much of what ails American education: working- and middle-class parents desperate to get their charming, healthy, well-behaved children into successful public charter schools. Here's what you don't see: the four out of five charters that are no better, on average, than traditional neighborhood public schools (and are sometimes much worse); charter school teachers, like those at the Green Dot schools in Los Angeles, who are unionized and like it that way; and noncharter neighborhood public schools, like PS 83 in East Harlem and the George Hall Elementary School in Mobile, Alabama, that are nationally recognized for successfully educating poor children. You don't see teen moms, households without an adult English speaker or headed by a drug addict, or any of the millions of children who never have a chance to enter a charter school lottery (or get help with their homework or a nice breakfast) because adults simply aren't engaged in their education. These children, of course, are often the ones who are most difficult to educate, and the ones neighborhood public schools can't turn away. You also don't learn that in the Finnish education system, much cited in the film as the best in the world, teachers are—gasp!—unionized and granted tenure, and families benefit from a cradle-to-grave social welfare system that includes universal daycare, preschool and...
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...graders are proficient in reading, and in states across America only 20 to 35 % of students are reading at grade level according to Waiting for Superman, a documentary directed by David Guggenheim. The problem begins between the 5th and 7th grade. This is where students being to go from B students to C and D students. By the time they have reached the 7th grade, they feel as though they are stupid. But are the students less intelligent? Or is there a bigger problem, asks Geoffrey Canada, a leader of education reform and founder of the Harlem Children’s Zone, a charter school that guarantees its student’s will graduate despite being in the heart of the worst school district in New York. Dr. Robert Balfanz of Johns Hopkins University studies “dropout factories” or schools where 40% of students don’t graduate. Failing elementary schools feed failing middle schools, which feed into failing high schools. Children are being passed along from grade to grade without ever truly reaching their grade level. He found that there are over 2,000 schools like this in America. This school...
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...REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4670 June 18, 1966 THE MAGNA CARTA FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS I. DECLARATION OF POLICY COVERAGE Sec. 1. Declaration of Policy. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this Act to promote and improve the social and economic status of public school teachers, their living and working conditions, their terms of employment and career prospects in order that they may compare favorably with existing opportunities in other walks of life, attract and retain in the teaching profession more people with the proper qualifications, it being recognized that advance in education depends on the qualifications and ability of the teaching staff and that education is an essential factor in the economic growth of the nation as a productive investment of vital importance. Sec. 2. Title Definition. This Act shall be known as the "Magna Carta for Public School Teachers" and shall apply to all public school teachers except those in the professorial staff of state colleges and universities. As used in this Act, the term "teacher" shall mean all persons engaged in classroom teaching, in any level of instruction, on full-time basis, including guidance counselors, school librarians, industrial arts or vocational instructors, and all other persons performing supervisory and/or administrative functions in all schools, colleges and universities operated by the Government or its political subdivisions; but shall not include school nurses, school physicians, school dentists, and other school...
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...REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4670 June 18, 1966 THE MAGNA CARTA FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS I. DECLARATION OF POLICY COVERAGE Sec. 1. Declaration of Policy. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this Act to promote and improve the social and economic status of public school teachers, their living and working conditions, their terms of employment and career prospects in order that they may compare favorably with existing opportunities in other walks of life, attract and retain in the teaching profession more people with the proper qualifications, it being recognized that advance in education depends on the qualifications and ability of the teaching staff and that education is an essential factor in the economic growth of the nation as a productive investment of vital importance. Sec. 2. Title Definition. This Act shall be known as the "Magna Carta for Public School Teachers" and shall apply to all public school teachers except those in the professorial staff of state colleges and universities. As used in this Act, the term "teacher" shall mean all persons engaged in classroom teaching, in any level of instruction, on full-time basis, including guidance counselors, school librarians, industrial arts or vocational instructors, and all other persons performing supervisory and/or administrative functions in all schools, colleges and universities operated by the Government or its political subdivisions; but shall not include school nurses, school physicians, school dentists, and other school...
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...tools 6. Enumerations were according to work produces. 7. Dictatorship was necessary because humans are lazy in nature and the scientific management required strict supervision 8. Scientific theory ensured efficiency and minimized waste. Applications of the scientific theory in Education Management 1. Members of staff, teaching and non- teaching, should know the aims and objectives of the school. With well-defined aims and objectives, better performance is expected and accountability is facilitated. 2. In school, all teachers must know the direction in which to move and work together for a joint objective specified in their mission statement. 3. He specified that staff should be specialised and this is evident all teachers and even the support staff are employed on basis of subject specialization with college qualification. 4. Provision of appropriate tools and materials to workers and teachers enables them to perform well. Criticism of the scientific theory 1. Humans were...
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...significantly decline. Regular courses in a Lappen 4 university must be taught repeatedly for each semester's batch of students. In these traditional university classes, professors can lecture to a very limited number of students in each class. A MOOC must only be recorded once and can last on the internet indefinitely. If the subject of the MOOC does not require revision, that single video can educate millions of students. If MOOCs do become a main source of education, what will happen to the educational professors with tenure? Not all professors excel at conducting research. Since fewer educating professors will be needed, will the surplus professors with tenure be retained after their job ceases to exist? Schools have two plausible options. They can either continue these courses until the teachers resign or schools can prepare, in advance, for a future education system based on MOOCs. Once MOOCs begin to replace traditional teaching, schools may cease to give out tenure in anticipation of this...
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