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Yet the training, support and compensation we provide teachers has barely budged. Only a third of teacher preparation programs report that they give student teachers frequent feedback throughout their clinical training. As a result, six in 10 teachers report feeling unprepared to meet the needs of their students when they start leading their own classrooms. In-service training is also inadequate: The vast majority of teachers say that their professional development is not training them to stay up to date with their jobs’ evolving responsibilities, and that they have too little time to plan and collaborate with one another. And last but certainly not least, teacher compensation is stagnant and has declined over time relative to that of other educated professionals
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/knowledge-bank/2015/05/05/american-teachers-need-a-raise

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average teacher salary in the US is $41,000. This is simply too low. Teachers are the people who feed our nation intellectually. They are the ones exposing students to the information they need to go out in the world and make a difference. When looking at their average salary, it is clearly way too low relative to how much they benefit society. Not all countries who rank education highly reward its largest contributors so poorly. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the average salary for teachers in Switzerland is $68,000 which is the highest average teacher salary in the world. The US doesn’t even crack the top ten. It seems crazy to me that one of the strongest and richest nations in the world doesn't even pay the people who help build America at a competitive rate.
https://letters2president.org/letters/9315

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But don’t teachers earn lower average wages than college graduates in most other professions? Yes, but four-year degrees are not all created equal. For example, education—the degree held by around half of public school teachers—is among the least challenging fields of study. As measures of ability go, a degree in educationcannot be equated with a degree in, say, computer science or engineering. That’s part of the reason why teachers typically receive a lower wage both before they enter teaching and after they leave for another field. Combine decent wages with a generous benefits package—guaranteed pensions, retiree health care, and job security—and teacher compensation is, on average, above market levels.

So the public is already paying for more highly-qualified teachers than it is getting. If the skills of the teacher workforce have yet to match the level of current compensation, it is not clear how an additional raise would produce better results.

http://thefederalist.com/2014/07/25/why-we-shouldnt-raise-teacher-pay/

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A popular one cited in this story comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, which found that around 259,000 teachers left teaching after the 2011-12 school year, about 28,000 of whom had fewer than four years of teaching experience. That seems like a lot of teachers, but actually it's not: in the end, only about 8% left when the school year concluded. In fact, NCES found that 84% of all teachers returned in 2012-13 to the exact same position they had the year before, while about 8% moved to another teaching position. That means fully 92% of all teachers came back for the next school year.

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Elementary and most Middle School teachers eat while supervising children because lunchtime would otherwise be a time for a great amount of chaos and poor behavior choices to occur. There are a lot of students who cannot handle this unstructured time without adults present, so we eat while we work. Sometimes that means our food gets cold while we deal with situations that happen during lunch, and sometimes that means we go without eating lunch at all.
https://theeducatorsroom.com/7-hidden-reasons-teachers-deserve-pay-raise/

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Teachers cant afford to live where they work 

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Teachers cant afford to live where they work 

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Inside, third-grade teacher Tara Hunt, a 16-year veteran, is preparing for the next teaching day. She gets up around 4 a.m. to make it in from the coastal village of Capitola — a commute that can take two hours in traffic.

She desperately wants to move closer to work. But, so far, that's not happening.

"This is where all the tech jobs are. And it's pushing out your community helpers," she says. "The cost of living just keeps going up and up."

Hunt can't help but wonder: "Who do we blame? Do we blame the homeowners who are renting out their property? Do we blame the city?"

I ask Hunt what percentage of her monthly income she's spending on housing: "More than 50 percent for rent, no question. Not including utilities."

The general rule, I remind her, is that you shouldn't spend more than one-third. "Right," she says, laughing "Whoever came up with that rule never lived in California. They're from Missouri or Ohio."

Hunt makes a good salary. Veteran teachers in Palo Alto — a top district in the state — can make more than $100,000 a year. She wants to connect with the community and families she teaches.

But when Hunt looked for a place in the city where she's taught for more than a decade?
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/03/24/470710747/more-teachers-cant-afford-to-live-where-they-teach

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In most other professions, employees do not have to take their work home. Teachers, on the other hand, have to take their work home. They have to spend hours coming up with lesson plans that will engage students. They also have to spend time grading their students assignments, tests, and quizzes and because they do not have time out of their day to spend doing this, they have to take their work home. If you take into account the average teacher's salary and the hours they spend at work, they could probably make more money being an hourly wage employee.
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/5-reasons-teachers-paid

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"Scrutinizing Equal Pay for Equal Work Among Teachers"

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"Scrutinizing Equal Pay for Equal Work Among Teachers"

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In an attempt to make wages fair and transparent, are salary schedules creating other types of inequities? That's the case made by a new report by the Brookings Institution.

Teachers' salary schedules are so rigid in their reliance on education attainment and experience to determine pay increases that they inadvertently end up creating pay gaps between teachers in wealthy areas and those who teach in poor areas, the analysis argues. For example, suburban and wealthy districts tend to employ more experienced teachers, and those teachers are being compensated for that experience. Potentially, that means that schools with higher needs, where turnover is higher, are getting inexperienced—and less highly paid teachers.
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/10/04/teacher-pay.html

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According to the “2009 Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools,” Americans think more money should be spent on early childhood education; they're weary of the No Child Left Behind Act; and they feel inadequate funding is the biggest problem facing our schools.
They’re also in favor of higher starting salaries for public school teachers, to the tune of $43,000, about $7,000 more than the average starting salary of education majors graduating in 2009.
Seven out of 10 respondents also said they’d like a child of theirs to become a public school teacher -- and with higher salaries, it's a lot more likely that they will.
http://www.nea.org/home/35916.htm

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Here’s What Happens When A School Pays Its Teachers A Lot, Lot More Money

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Here’s What Happens When A School Pays Its Teachers A Lot, Lot More Money

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For the last five years, one charter middle school in Manhattan has been conducting a radical experiment in doing exactly that. The Equity Project pays its teachers a salary of $125,000 a year, with extra bonuses based on performance. It also expects a lot more from them, including longer hours and slightly larger classes, four weeks of professional development a year, and regular reviews once hired.

The result? According to the Wall Street Journal, the first long-term study to evaluate the school shows that its unusual model is producing results. The study, conducted by Mathematica Policy Research and paid for by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, compared the school’s 480 students with students in a nearby public district school who had similar initial test scores, family incomes, and other demographics (the neighborhood is mostly Hispanic). As the WSJ reports:

After four years at the charter school, eighth-graders showed average test score gains in math equal to an additional year and a half of school, compared with district students. The study found these charter students’ gains equaled more than an extra half-year in science and almost an extra half-year in English.

Not that there weren’t challenges. One was teacher retention. Of the 43 teachers who made it through the school’s rigorous interview process and were hired during the study, 47% only lasted one year, whereas the nearby district school only had a 27% turnover rate. Most of the time, it was because they weren’t asked back. The Equity Project is now attempting to address teacher burnout and improve retention. And while the Equity Project students performed better on average than their counterparts, only 43% of students passed the state’s math tests in 2013 (though the city average is only 26%).

The school had to make compromises to pay the teacher’s so much, including a larger class size and a meager administrative staff, in its effort to create a “sustainable and conservative financial model” that avoids outside private funding. Some compromises were also by design–the school’s principal is paid less than the teachers to encourage the best teachers to stay in the classroom.

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The Mitchell Institute is working with three universities, two states and 86 schools and more than 4000 in-service and pre-service teachers to make this change.

Without this, we will let down another generation of young people.

It's obvious we need more teachers like Mr Walker and Mr Smith.  But how are we going to get them?

As I look out the window from where I'm writing this column I see a young woman at the construction site opposite with the "stop/go" sign. She has the responsibility for about 20 metres of traffic control. For this she can earn up to $140,000 a year.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/why-we-need-to-pay-teachers-more-20160601-gp9j9g.html

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Good teachers help students in the future 

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Good teachers help students in the future 

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Recent scholarship suggests that good teachers, even kindergarten teachers, increase their students’ earnings many years later. Eric A. Hanushek of Stanford University found that an excellent teacher (one a standard deviation better than average, or better than 84 percent of teachers) raises each student’s lifetime earnings by $20,000. If there are 20 students in the class, that is an extra $400,000 generated, compared with a teacher who is merely average.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/opinion/13kristof.html

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Teachers are helping to develop the minds of the future.

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Teachers are helping to develop the minds of the future.

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Teachers work not only in school but at home. They spend hours planning lessons and correcting homework and tests. They are responsible for developing the minds of the future and many times have to be nurse, social worker and referee for some hard to handle students. I know my teachers spend lots of time and their own money to make school more exciting for us.

http://www.debate.org/opinions/do-you-think-teachers-should-get-paid-more