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Instructor notes are copy of (old) wording from lesson modules
About 80% of the instructor notes (guide.me) are copied from the lesson wording. This seems problematic for a couple of reasons.
- The lesson wording has now been updated but that doesn't carry over automatically into the instructor notes.
- In general having duplicate information in two places isn't a great idea. It seems to me that having this information in the instructor notes doesn't add anything beyond what the instructors could gain just by reading through the lessons.
I propose removing the duplicate language and replacing with notes to the instructors that are not found in the main lesson materials, including common errors the learners might run into (for example if they didn't do the exercises exactly as laid out they will have problems with later exercises) and information about motivating learners.
Agree that sounds like the best approach. The lessons themselves have more information now, so there's not need for that generally repeated information in the instructors notes.
Do you think it's worth doing this now before the lesson release or should it wait until later?