Blog #3
In high school I felt I had a love hate relationship with textbooks. On the one hand it was nice because I had the resource for my class at my fingertips, but on the other hand it was boring. So boring. I found this chapter very intriguing because it gave some great examples on how to use the textbook better as a teacher, but also some other resources to use in place of the textbook. One thing that really caught my attention was that this book recommends for teachers to be “vigilant” (Daniels and Zemelman, 2014, p. 201) in looking for other textbooks for your class. I think this would be such a great idea because I can remember many of my teachers growing up saying “I really don’t like how the textbook presents this topic” but we would sometimes still have to use the textbook because it was required of them to do so. I personally think that having multiple/ other resources teachers can avoid this problem and help the students learn material in the best way possible. O...
Comments
Post a Comment