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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is it, in this day and age, [b]schools don't have class lessons that are ready to go for teachers?[/b] Why is everyone starting from scratch?[/quote]

Because teaching isn't an automated factory-production process?[/quote]

As a former teacher, I totally agree.

I taught for years--guess what?  I never regurgitated lesson plans.  Every year, I made new plans.  I have not taught in several years and I understand that it is more regimented now than when I taught.

My normal operation:  Make goals for the year using the guidance from the school system.  For my daily lesson plans, I usually stayed very late on a Thursday and made lesson plans for the following week.  I would assemble the materials needed--as much as possible.

But, frequently, other things interfered, or the kids needed more practice or review and I would need to push lessons to the following week.  Sometimes, a lesson would go more quickly than anticipated and I would move forward.

As for the pedagogy, I do think that elementary teaching (especially primary grades) requires more classroom management, organization, etc.  You need to create a physical environment that helps the kids to learn, as well as plan how you will teach.  
FWIW, many college professors will teach education students that if they have good lesson plans, they will not have discipline problems.  (Please remember, that the people telling the prospective teachers this "lesson" have been out of classrooms for years--except to tell others how to teach.

Good lesson plans are extremely important--I knew teachers who said they did not need them, that they "knew' what they were going to do without writing it down.  I needed them--it was important to me to see that I was moving forward with the kids.  Sure, I had an outline in my head--but, when you walk in class first thing in the a.m.-it sure is nice to have a reminder in front of you of what you had planned for that day.  (plus, I loved to check it off)

I could never have used someone else's plans on a daily basis.  Teaching is not a script.
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