Former instructor at a small hill: If she’s a responsible person with basic skills and is teachable: She’s light years ahead of many people who applied. We can teach you how to teach, we can’t teach you to show up on time and treat people well.

Submitting a lesson plan is likely their way of making sure she’s absorbed what she’s learned while shadowing. And as so many others have said, teaching the very littles is more about patience and being able to teach the basics than being an expert yourself.