Multiple Career Paths
The framework for the multiple career path principle is an offshoot of the traditional business model where employees are compensated differently for differing work responsibilities and for different quality of work.
A review of educational research on career ladder programs suggested that career advancement programs must choose fiscal and work opportunity incentives to create a total package that appeals to teachers; further, career paths should focus on job enlargement with opportunities such as long term professional growth, teacher involvement in school decisions, involvement of senior teachers in the induction of new teachers and the development of relatively permanent promotions to encourage career planning by teachers (Murphy and Hart, 1986).
- Teachers continuously demonstrate high performance in order to retain their advanced level of status and pay;
- The standards by which teachers are measured should be clear;
- Assessment must be viewed by the teachers as being fair;
- Evaluation and feedback should be frequent;
- Differences in compensation should lead to differences in roles and responsibilities; and
- Teachers should be involved in the design and implementation of the plan.