{"id":854,"date":"2016-09-29T21:48:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T01:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/global-elites\/?p=854"},"modified":"2016-12-09T15:44:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:44:47","slug":"global-education-blog-post-1-teacher-salaries-at-the-chilean-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/global-elites\/2016\/09\/29\/global-education-blog-post-1-teacher-salaries-at-the-chilean-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Salaries at the Croft School"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, my Education Senior seminar has been\u00a0discussing\u00a0teacher salaries\u00a0in the United States. \u00a0My classmates and I are keenly aware\u00a0that primary and secondary\u00a0school teachers don’t get paid very much for all the work they do.<\/p>\n

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Yup, that pretty much sums it up!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unfortunately, these low salaries are\u00a0discouraging many highly-educated students from becoming\u00a0teachers. \u00a0While Teach for America has had success recruiting\u00a0highly-educated college and universtiy graduates to teach for two years, low salaries are making it difficult for schools to attract and retain them\u00a0for longer than that.<\/p>\n

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The motto for\u00a0too many TFA corps members.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other educational systems around the world\u00a0are also experiencing\u00a0difficulty recruiting\u00a0quality students to become teachers, as well as\u00a0retaining them for extended periods of time. \u00a0While a number of unique factors hinder each education system’s ability to recruit\u00a0and train\u00a0highly qualified students to become teachers, the two most common factors appear to be low teacher salaries relative to other occupations in the country, as well as the teaching profession\u2019s low standing among other occupations within the professional hierarchy.<\/p>\n

For example, while India has a well-established system for training teachers, it\u00a0has\u00a0trouble recruiting promising students to the profession. \u00a0This\u00a0is because of the profession\u2019s \u2018meager\u2019 salary. \u00a0Careers in medicine, law, and engineering\u00a0carry more prestige, respect and higher\u00a0salaries relative to teaching. \u00a0As a result, few promising students in India\u00a0pursue teaching careers. \u00a0More\u00a0information on the\u00a0Indian education system, as well as\u00a0on other\u00a0education systems around the world, can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“Um, I’ll pass… I want to earn more money than a teacher!”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since teacher pay was at the forefront of my mind when I began perusing the\u00a0Croft School\u2019s website, I immediately latched on to a section which discussed teachers at the elite institution. I am\u00a0fascinated by the payment scheme the school uses to attract and hire teachers. The school recruits and hires both Chilean and international teachers, and uses a scale to pay\u00a0salaries that\u00a0include accommodation, pension, taxation, health insurance, and more. The school claims to pay teachers much more favorably than other schools in the immediate area, as well as the city it is located in. This school also says its international teachers enjoy a much<\/em> higher standard of living than when they taught in their home country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That line hit me\u00a0like a ton of bricks. \u00a0Did they REALLY just say that?<\/p>\n

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The description of their\u00a0pay scale is fascinating to me for two reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. By comparing their teacher salaries to those in other countries, the school acknowledges that teachers in other parts of the world are not being paid a lot for their work.<\/li>\n
  2. This school is clearly proud of its long-standing ability to provide a well-rounded education. I believe the extent to which the school values high-quality teachers is seen in its favorable pay structure. The school pays its teachers high salaries because it knows it needs high quality teachers to effectively teach and carry out their curricular objectives.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Since the\u00a0Croft School has a strong reputation for preparing students to achieve social and monetary success, their pay scale leads me to ask: What if schools in the US paid teachers these types of\u00a0salaries? Would this change the teaching profession for the better (i.e. attract more highly-educated candidates who have potential to be great teachers ), or worse (i.e. recruit candidates who are more interested in the profession’s money than actually helping children learn and grow)? \u00a0Would teacher quality improve as a whole, and would student performance improve, if US schools had the resources to pay teachers higher salaries?<\/p>\n

    It seems to be working at the\u00a0Croft School, and I believe if the resources were there, paying teachers higher salaries would improve teacher\u00a0quality, and thus the academic\u00a0performance of schools, in the US as well.<\/p>\n

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