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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here: the problem is that there are no resources the align with what we are teaching. We would need so many books for each child that it is a lot more efficient (believe it our not) to create our own materials. Is it ideal? Of course not.[/quote]
yikes, I could not disagree with you more. It is not a smart use of time for every teacher in the district to make their own things. [/quote]

Math teacher here - I also disagree. Given that good curricula and resources do exist, or could be created, it is just not an effective use of time for teachers to be creating or finding resources for almost every component of a lesson as well as homework. Of course materials will have to modified for some children, and some children will need completely different materials, but that further supports getting teachers better resources; it is just unrealistic to believe that teachers can create that many high-quality materials day after day. Furthermore, all teachers have strengths and weaknesses and it isn't smart to just trust that all teachers have a strong enough content background to be able to CREATE curricula.

Our society is constantly changing, there are plenty of things teachers can be learning and creating as they go - basic math curricula should not be one of them.[/quote]

Sorry- I teach chemistry, not elementary math. I didn't mean to lead people into thinking that I did![/quote]

I do not think it is good for teachers of any subject area to be making their own curricula at all. It seems a phenomenal waste of time and there is a risk that the teacher is not a good enough content expert to develop such curricula materials. There are tons of curricula resources out there.[/quote]

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