My timing could not have been worse. One Tuesday evening recently, I received our first full set of student voice data on teaching and learning after a pilot last November to test the ICT system and programme used to collect and analyse the data.
It arrived on the same day the new School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document was published, with the suggestion to use student voice data to help make decisions around the impending move to performance-related pay of teachers – disaster.
Everyone interested in education knows that “the quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of the teachers in it”. The difference seems to be how best to achieve the desired outcome, of exceptionally high-quality, motivated teachers – and performance-related pay simply won’t deliver this.
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