Pretty negative - so the lesson plans are crap, they don't promote independent learming, the children are not interested. You read all that from the article?
Why not buy one, check it out? They are cheap, many are free. Its easy to criticise, but almost as easy to have an informed opinion.
I can imagine many new teachers are glad to have an experienced educator guide them. It can be challenging to have a fresh plan 180 days in a row. At the least, these plans provide another viewpoint.
My initial surprise at the announcement that lesson plans sell that well stems from
1) writing my own lesson plans, adapted to a particular group of students I teach, and thus
2) thinking, don't most teachers plan their lessons for their particular class, with its individual mix of students?
while also knowing
3) many materials provided by textbook publishers have somewhat of built-in lesson plans.
So I'm still surprised to see that the market is as large as it evidently is for canned lesson plans, but it is, and it appears that other teachers ought to enter it.
Why not buy one, check it out? They are cheap, many are free. Its easy to criticise, but almost as easy to have an informed opinion.
I can imagine many new teachers are glad to have an experienced educator guide them. It can be challenging to have a fresh plan 180 days in a row. At the least, these plans provide another viewpoint.