Student Performance and Effective Teacher

I personally do not think that teachers should be paid based on student performance because there are so many factors that can contribute to a student's performance other than the teacher. It also seems as if teachers would start discriminating students without really knowing them as a person because their pay would be based on the performance each individual student makes. For example, if Suzie gets low scores on her NeSA test then her future teachers will see those test scores and say I don't want her in my class, because they assume she will get poor scores again or they will have to work really hard to get her caught up and make sure that she doesn't get low scores again while they are teaching her. 

I believe that an effective teacher will do anything and everything to make sure that all students are as successful as they can be. They are passionate about their profession and care enough about their students to build relationships with them. They are willing to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all learners and are flexible when it comes to different circumstances and situations. An effective teacher is planned and organized and helps their students set goals and challenges them while also helping them reach their goals. They are also knowledgeable in their content area and able to teach in a way that students understand, if students don't get it the first time, they are willing to go back and re-teach until the students do get it. Effective teachers also incorporate a variety of resources into their lessons such as technology.