How closely do you have to follow the curriculum, Sean? I know that at the middle school level there's still a tendency to skip over some historical details in favor of the larger picture which sometimes tends to highlight European accomplishments while portraying other societies only in relationship to European history.

The reason I ask is because currently I'm doing a project for one of my classes that's going to make it into a middle school or high school class. Our professor is pretty adamant about including alternative history arguments and keeping out the established stuff found in middle or high school textbooks. I don't know how I feel about it, but I would like to know what your thoughts are about teaching something verbatim. Do you plan on interjecting some of your own knowledge into lectures and perhaps augmenting anything you think is particularly incorrect?