[socrates1998]

Man, I don't get why Teachers stress so much on lesson plans.

I was a high school teacher for about a decade and after the first three years, it doesn't take long or difficult to have lesson plans available.

If you want ideas, the school district often has a crap load of them. And if you are teaching a standardized course (like Algebra or Geometry) you are essentially provided lesson plans for every day.

The website is an interesting idea, but it won't make a bunch of people millionaires. It will make 2 or 3 teachers millionaires, with most people who contributed probably losing money for the amount of time invested in creating these lesson plans.

Really, the school districts biggest waste of resources are their teachers. You could easily open source all the teachers lesson plans for the district, then you could freely pick and choose from anyone in your district.

Also, you could do away with those crazy expensive textbooks. Get every kid a $50 android tablet and get a team of teachers to come up with an open source version.

It would take them a few weeks over the summer if you are dealing with experienced teachers.

Then, you update the textbook every summer and the students download the latest version in August.

The school district would save insane amounts of money.

But, they won't do that because the publishers and administrators have corrupted the textbook buying process to a maddening degree. So sad.

[mythrwy]

The other "advantage" to centralized textbook buying is the opportunity to slip in that sweet sweet non-educational indoctrination. Hard to universally indoctrinate when the local community is doing their own thing.

[coolgeek]

Your profile notes:

> Owner/ Founder: Making-The-Grade Private Learning (Private Tutoring Services).

Your belief that there is nothing more to teaching than a lesson plan - "you could freely pick and choose from anyone in your district" - doesn't inspire confidence in the services you offer.

You also note that you're a Wordpress (sic) contractor. WordPress (note the capitalized P) is open source. Do you also believe that you could freely pick and choose from anyone (i.e. anybody without prior training or experience) to do WordPress development?

[socrates1998]

I know this is super late, but I will respond as I just saw it.

I have been an educator for over a decade, and lesson plans are very low on the list of what makes someone a good or great teacher/educator.

Teaching successfully is a lot of things, but for me it is a presentation. Making an interesting presentation and guiding students through a course correctly is the true skill.

Lesson plans are mostly about inserting industry language and cool sounding bullet points into pdfs so that your administrator will be impressed. They are really useful to inexperienced teachers, but are largely an after thought for many great experienced teachers. When you open source them to people in your district, it would be easy for other teachers to get ideas from them and allow them to actually be useful for even the most experienced teachers.

You clearly didn't understand my comment, so please enlighten me on what your theory of teaching and education is and the role that lesson plans play in all of it.

Your question, which was probably rhetorical, about Wordpress (note the uncapitalized p) doesn't make any sense. If you want an honest debate, rephrase it.