Education 2 - Central lessons


This may be one of the more controversial ideas but to me it seems one of the more obvious.  

Teaching is a difficult job.  Lots of people would agree with that for all sorts of reasons but the most difficult aspect of teaching is balancing all of the necessary things that have to be done in a lesson.  Delivering the material, coping with the range of different learning strategies or abilities making it interesting to keep people motivated and finding different ways of making it stick.

Yet we make every teacher create their own lessons.  That makes no sense.  It should take weeks or months to develop fantastic lessons.  This means that the proposal for this page is that a range of different lesson be developed centrally with opportunities for teachers to select their own routes through the material, fit in their own explanation if they need to and most importantly, for them to provide feedback for those lessons to be appraised and improved.

If you create a robust and thorough framework created by experts in the field then surely that will allow teachers to express themselves still and put more time into guiding the students in various directions?

What do you think?

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