I can't for the life of me understand why a teacher would agree to this. If I spent years in school to become an educator I would reel at micromanagement of someone telling me how to conduct my class or my teaching methods.
I would say, you teach your class your way and I will teach mine my way and lets see who's students performance outcomes are better.
It does seem incredible, but they will be taught this too, in their methods courses. As an aside, they've been confusing kids for generations with different iterations of the new math. About a dozen years ago, I realized one of my kids was having trouble with long division. I looked at the materials, and realized they had introduced a notationally complicated method which amounted to synthetic division. The only problem was (aside from it being error prone and slow) that the kids had no idea of polynomials, so it was extremely confusing.
The students I knew in the School of Education were all liberal.
“I can’t for the life of me understand why a teacher would agree to this. If I spent years in school to become an educator I would reel at micromanagement of someone telling me how to conduct my class or my teaching methods.”