When I think about performance-related pay (PRP) for teachers, I remember Jack. It’s not his real name, and you wouldn’t know him any way, but you will recognise him, if you see what I mean. Jack taught English to lower ability sets in a comprehensive school. Had there been PRP then, I suppose it would have been relatively easy to measure the progress of his classes against targets.
But teaching English was only a part of the reason why Jack was there. His main role, at least as far as the rest of us could see, was to run the school brass band.
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