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I completely agree that more shared lesson plans would be valuable, but as someone who has little experience teaching - isn't this generally what textbooks are

I completely agree that more shared lesson plans would be valuable, but as someone who has little experience teaching - isn't this generally what textbooks are meant to do? I realize teachers don't just go over what is in the textbook verbatim, but I would imagine they are intended to set a pretty reasonable guideline for what material should be taught and in what order, so I guess my real question is, what are lesson plans plans to you, and how to they work alongside textbooks?

rahimnathwani 12y ago
> what are lesson plans plans to you, and how to they work alongside textbooks? Target audience: Textbook: student / Lesson plan: teacher Type of activity it guides: Textbook: Solitary / Lesson plan: Group Scope: Textbook: Subject / Lesson plan: Single lesson Objective: Textbook: Comprehensive set of explanations for a broad subject / Lesson plan: Tactics for a teacher to facilitate learning I'm not a teacher, and it has been many years since I was at school, but I see little commonality between a textbook and a lesson plan.
- joncalhoun 12y ago
  I'm not asking this to be snark, but because I am still not seeing a major difference. For example, take a math textbook. Generally they are broken into subjects (eg circles) and then that topic is broken into lessons (eg circumference or area). Each lesson provides tactics & formulas for solving problems, examples of applying them, and a problem set to practice with. In my experience this is basically what a teacher would present in the classroom, with the exception of their samples being more interactive, and teachers having the ability answer questions. Were you thinking of another type of textbook? I can see how this may be different for history or literature textbooks, but to me that just means that said textbooks are doing a poorer job of covering everything they should. I think a textbook shouldn't just cover content, it should facilitate learning the content.
  - rahimnathwani 12y ago
    Perhaps an example would make it clearer: http://www.wikihow.com/Sample/High-School-Lesson-Plan http://www.wikihow.com/Sample/High-School-Lesson-Plan

rahimnathwani 12y ago

> what are lesson plans plans to you, and how to they work alongside textbooks? Target audience: Textbook: student / Lesson plan: teacher Type of activity it guides: Textbook: Solitary / Lesson plan: Group Scope: Textbook: Subject / Lesson plan: Single lesson Objective: Textbook: Comprehensive set of explanations for a broad subject / Lesson plan: Tactics for a teacher to facilitate learning I'm not a teacher, and it has been many years since I was at school, but I see little commonality between a textbook and a lesson plan.

joncalhoun 12y ago
I'm not asking this to be snark, but because I am still not seeing a major difference. For example, take a math textbook. Generally they are broken into subjects (eg circles) and then that topic is broken into lessons (eg circumference or area). Each lesson provides tactics & formulas for solving problems, examples of applying them, and a problem set to practice with. In my experience this is basically what a teacher would present in the classroom, with the exception of their samples being more interactive, and teachers having the ability answer questions. Were you thinking of another type of textbook? I can see how this may be different for history or literature textbooks, but to me that just means that said textbooks are doing a poorer job of covering everything they should. I think a textbook shouldn't just cover content, it should facilitate learning the content.
- rahimnathwani 12y ago
  Perhaps an example would make it clearer: http://www.wikihow.com/Sample/High-School-Lesson-Plan http://www.wikihow.com/Sample/High-School-Lesson-Plan