Dawn Editorial Shorthand Passage from Article "The worst of Worlds" dated 08.01.2021 Part-III PDF with Dictation @ 95 WPM
The worst of worlds
BY FA I S A L B A R I 2021-01-08
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And since teachers retire at 60, we seem to be saying we are stuck with the pool once we select them. We also know, from various surveys, that teaching is not the profession of first choice for the majority of people who join the public sector as teachers.
2. Should we not, like in any other profession, have some incentives for making teachers improve their performance and/ or have ways of moving out those who do not want to be, or are not good enough to be in the profession? The quest to reduce nepotism and corruption much needed and welcome, of course has had significant unintended consequences. If the selection process cannot be made more discriminatory and selective, and on the right variables, there must be other incentives to ensure teachers improve over time and/ or ways of moving them out of this profession and into ones they might be better suited for. But, right now, we seem to be in the worst of all situations: the initial selection, made on variables that are not good predictors of eventual performance, gets locked in.
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3. There is ample evidence that quality of teaching makes a significant difference in student learning outcomes. Over the last couple of decades, given the poor learning outcomes that we have consistently been seeing in our education system, there has been increasing focus on the quest to improve quality of learning and teaching. Teacher salaries, terms of service, in-service training and, as stated, recruitment policies have been changed to address some of these concerns. But the reforms are incomplete. We need to do a lot more especially in how we manage teacher selection for quality, and how we incentivize teaching-quality improvements. The writer is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives, and an associate professor of economics at Lums.