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Show 'No incentives in classroom If successful "incentive" business busi-ness technique were applied tot he classroom, the educational system would take a "quantum leap forward," for-ward," a graduate student in the ' University College of Business said Monday evening. Mrs. Katherine M. Mason told members of the Indian Hills PTA ' "the reason kids don't learn and . parents are unhappy is that incentives incen-tives are missing for teachers to get in touch with students and for parents par-ents to move their children's intell- ectual development along a planned path." She suggested that cash bonuses : be paid to the "best teachers," : based upon accomplishment and output, as well as setting and real-. real-. izing specific classroom objectives. "If truly great teaching could be-: be-: come a means of attaining some and discouraged teachers would "turn on' again," she predicted. Mrs. Mason cited advances in . systems management and behavioral behavi-oral sciences being taught business , managers as having applicability . to Salt Lake's school problems. |