3 Month Program (30.75 hours): 1  Education Class â a combination of lecture and film (six classes, two hours each) 2  Group Session â meet once a week (nine sessions, two hours each) 3  Individual interviews â held at beginning, midpoint, and end of program (three meetings, 15 minutes each)
The positive side of salary pay is salary pay is more fair. Salary pay is competitive. The positive side of Merit pay is the merit pay program will attract more teachers to elementary schools, increase teacher performance, and student test scores.alary pay verses Merit Pay by Rochelle Griffin Many states are considering the difference between salary and merit pay for teachers; however, both have positive and negative factors. Salary pay is a set amount of money that the employer pays the employee.
1 And the highest performing teachers should be first in line for this financial recognition. 2  We are in the middle of a teaching shortage. 3  Merit pay would inspire potential teachers to give the profession more consideration as a viable career choice, rather than a personal sacrifice for the higher good.etra Images-Jamie Grill/Brand X Pictures/Getty Images. Teaching unions around the United States are lessening their opposition to merit pay for teachers, and finding new ways to experiment with the concept, passionate reactions erupted from teachers everywhere.