You’ve heard the idea proposed over and over again — paying teachers on a performance-based scale. While merit-based pay might reward deserving teachers in an otherwise thankless profession, it poses more problems than it solves. Just how is one’s performance as a K-12 educator evaluated? Currently, administrators assess a teacher’s performance with a rubric used to address such things as classroom management, teaching techniques seen through classroom observations, cooperative skills, assigned duty fulfillment, school system procedures, professional/personal conduct and professional …