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.
One working model for merit pay or performance-based compensation for teachers is the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) launched by the Milken Family Foundation in 1999. A trademark of TAP is that it ties educatorsâ salaries and bonuses to instructional performance and growth in student achievement.he authors, Lewis Solmon and Michael Podgursky, developed a list of 15 common arguments against merit pay or performance-based compensation for educators. They then asked 50 educators who had been awarded a Milken Educators Award to comment on those statements and they specifically asked for negative statements.