Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/momentum-helping-teachers-grow-separating-competency-from-compensation/5007037/
Teaching competency can be viewed as a continuum -you can have a little of it, some of it, or a lot of it-and there is always room for more competency growth. Compensation, on the other hand, is usually finite-there are only so many salary dollars to go around. Standard practice in most work environments is to conduct evaluations (read: performance reviews) annually and to conclude with a salary change discussion.This type of system works well for businesses which are static over time or whose employees need a fixed set of skills. But the world of child care is never static. Children develop daily and change in the process. Classroom dynamics vary depending on group size, composition, the day of the week, and the weather! Early childhood teachers need an ever-changing array of teaching skills to be able to handle both the variability of teaching responsibilities and the synergy of classroom groups. When they are having trouble, teachers cannot wait until an annual review to get help. They want and need new teaching skills when challenges present themselves-not at some undetermined point in the future.
In the child care setting, annual discussions of competence, ...