Teachers, professors, educators and instructors in pretty much all parts of the world are battling with low salary they obtain. Just an example of this is the strike that teachers made in the US back in 2018 across its states from North Carolina, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, West Virginia and so on.
The demands are varying per state but they all have a common denominator, which is to increase teacher’s salary. Because of this, it forces lawmakers to propose an increase to teacher’s salaries and Senator Kamala Harris has been called for average raise among teacher’s wage of 13,500 dollars or a 20% increase. This is what she’d promised if elected to be the president on her first term.
But the real question here should be, what can be accomplished after raising salaries of teachers?
Let us figure it out, piece by piece.
What Teachers can do with their Salaries?
More often than not, people think that by increasing salaries of teachers, it will promote better learning and education for their children. One reason is that higher salaries may improve the efforts exerted by teachers when teaching. When it is low, teachers might seek for another job which reduces their effort and energy when teaching. Possibly, this could justify things. Given that teachers would have higher salary in keeping them going day after day, allow them to buy stuff they need such as an electric head shaver to keep them sane on the stress brought by their jobs and so forth.
As a matter of fact, speaking of getting second jobs, this has been happening already as there are reports coming in that teachers in Pennsylvania, Idaho, Texas and several states. With higher salaries, it may just increase learning if they’ve drawn more of the brightest and the best college graduates to teaching into schools.
Impact of Bigger Salary People don’t Expect
In the state of Texas, the increase in teacher’s pay had resulted in reducing turnover, which in return improved student’s performance. Similarly, national studies from UK and US finds out that students are more engaged when teachers have better wages.