Questions and Answers

My partner and I have been working on our lpu and it has raised a few questions.  First, do teachers really have to write lesson plans that are like our lpu assignment?  Do teachers mostly get their lessons out of the teachers’ manual and follow that or do they write their own lesson plans?  The past few days we have been working on our lpu and it seems me a teacher should take ideas out of the teachers’ manuals, but have the main ideas and activities be their own.  It maybe difficult and time consuming to write lesson plans as multifaceted as we are, but I feel the students will get a lot out of our lesson plan. 

As I have been looking through 5^th grade teachers’ manuals I have noticed that there are worksheets for different leveled math students.  My question is when handing out a worksheet for homework do you give each student a different worksheet, one that has questions that fits the level they are at, or do you give everyone the same worksheet.  I don’t ever remember not having the same worksheet as my classmates when I was in grade school. 

Deanna