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[quote=Anonymous][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]

That's ridiculous.   The man was teaching high school algebra.  He said:

[quote]All this, and having to spend long hours planning lessons and developing his own material because the district didn’t supply much – and what was supplied was “thin and weak to the point of not being usable.”

“I needed more time to do planning, to understand my material and tune it so it was a highly effective weapon as opposed to two hours of professional development or driving down to Office Depot because I don’t have access to a copier,” he said.[/quote]

Algebra is not some unknown body of knowledge.   There are curricula out there that do a great job presenting the material (with workbooks, problem sets, textbooks, applications... ) and it sounds like they didn't bother to give him any of that?!   [b]Give the teacher a decent textbook to work with for heavens sake, this isn't rocket science[/b].[/quote]

Teachers are often their own worse enemies.  For some inexplicable reason, there is a stigma against teaching out of a textbook, which seems ridiculous because almost all teachers get worksheets off the internet to give their students.  Teaching out of a textbook is not simply read the chapter and answer the questions.  Most textbooks have lots of suggestions for projects/games, etc. But for some crazy reason, teachers are looked down on for actually using the textbooks that their school divisions bought. [/quote]

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