When teachers select textbooks for their classes, it is crucial to select the textbooks in which the textual materials meets the needs and interests of students. As a future educator, it is my job to evaluate textbooks and know how to use them. When choosing a textbook, I should remember the real audience, the students. I want a book that students can feel comfortable with, engage in, and can understand. If I don't understand the vocabulary or concepts, my students may not fully comprehend the material. Many textbooks are misused and it is important to know how to use and evaluate a textbook. When evaluating a textbook one should know how and why textbooks are generally hard to read for students. Textbooks are considered expository text. These …show more content…
This allows the students to know what to expect from the class and textbook. The beginning of the textbook has a scavenger hunt (Spielvogel, 2006, p.NY55.). The purpose of this scavenger hunt is to teach students through a game, how to use and navigate through the textbook. There is also a section in the beginning of the book titled “Previewing Your Textbook”. This teaches students how the units and chapters are organized. It also specifies the tools it gives throughout the readings (Spielvogel, 2006, p.NY50.). The opening of the textbook is crucial for the students to know, and it will be my job to point this out to them so they know how to properly use, and navigate through the …show more content…
This textbook is a wonderful resource to have. There are many good features and tools to help the students. This textbook has many beneficial features, however a lot of these good features are invisible to students. I will have to teach my students to recognize key features, how to use, and navigate through the text. The textbook does contain a lot of information. I would not teach all of the information and use the textbook as a resource. I can modify, change, eliminate, or add to the material in this textbook. I could also supplement the textbook with lots of outside
Before the book even begins there is a page which really helps to set the tone for the book. It also helps the reader to better understand the pages ahead.
Throughout my education I’ve come to realize that best practice indicates the need to incorporate stories, plays, poetry, dictionaries, newspapers, textbooks, informational books, and the rest to allow each learner the opportunity to engage in the exploration of in range of texts. I also must provide time for the student to respond to, reflect upon, and discuss what they are reading and writing. One of my strongly held beliefs is that the best learning experiences occur when the student takes ownership of the learning. I truly believe that students need to be included in setting individual goals, making decisions about independent reading choices, and selection of activities to demonstrate learning.
Without seeing the many different kinds of vocabulary and spellings kids won’t learn any of it.“Books are among our best teachers” (“Leigh”).No matter how qualified our teachers are, books will always be able to give us different point of views and advice that teachers can’t. Reading a book is more entertaining then sitting in a classroom for an hour.To conclude this paragraph, books are a great source of literature and vocab to not only kids but teens, and adults as
This article, “Why Are Textbooks So Expensive?” by Henry Roediger reveals the truth of why textbooks are so pricey. He shows how textbooks prices are costly not because of inflation, corporate textbook companies, and frequent revisions, but because of the sale of used textbooks. The article is elaborating on why used textbooks are the real culprit as well. One main point that is highlighted is that used textbooks are resold for many years. The initial selling of the textbook is the only time the author will make a profit, but the bookstore will make a profit every time they resell a used book. It is essential for the author to raise the price to compensate for the loss of money when dealing with used textbooks.
The teacher should always listen to input from the parents of their students, and should make the parents feel comfortable discussing with them the problems they see with their child reading a certain book. There should always be parental consent when reading a book so that the parent will be able to discuss with their child their views and issues on a certain book. Discussion should always be welcome within the classroom for student growth and to discuss any issues that may arise. When following these guidelines, teachers can prepare their students for the future real-world problems that they will be confronted with. Works Cited Blair, L. (1996).
As well as having to read according to what your reading level is, you have to also gain points by taking a test on the book you previously read.
This book helped me get much or my information about the book. It had good straight forward information. Did not take much searching to find what I needed. It provided me with good facts about the characters I used.
Textbooks are essential and informative, however it is not the main core value of education. If we truly depend on textbook, our world would be as naïve as natives in colonization era. Schopenhauer provides the difference between reading and thinking. “Reading forcibly imposes on the mind thoughts that are as foreign to its mood and direction” (Schopenhauer, pg. 89) Reading is an escape of reality. It penetrates the mind and alters thinking. “The mind is totally subjected to an external compulsion” (Schopenhauer, pg.89) although reading is prominent, it can impair personal thinking. “That the surest way of never having any thoughts of your own is to pickup a book every time you have a free moment.” (Schopenhauer, pg. 90) When it comes to reading college content, it has no originality. We are attaining our foreign thinking from a text that has been modified thus teach one purpose only and that is to provide facts. We cannot attain wisdom from textbooks. Universities provide textbooks that are a copy of another copy; that is to say, the information is the production of somebodies else’s idea following by, another mans ideas and so on. “All that has ever been taught is a critique of a words and fifty critiques of them as preserved side-by-side and intermingled” (Nietzsche, pg. 187) What can we obtain from a mixtures of words? Well criteria met. It is possible to have our own thoughts and ideas; if we only foreshadow on textbook we will become a textbook itself. “People who pass their lives in reading and acquire their wisdom from books are like those who learn about a country from travel description” (Schopenhauer, pg. 91) we have to obtain our wisdom from our own thoughts and not from what is editing in from of
The book contains mostly text, but also quite a few photographs, maps, and statistical charts. The maps are not detailed, only giving a general sense of the area, but the statistical tables are fairly detailed. Overall, though, the photographs are the most helpful device in illustrating and giving additional depth to the text.
The teacher will begin reading the book, but also participate in guided reading, in where she/he will pause every so often to recollect ideas from the students.
Develop a bulleted list of useful ideas in the chapter that relate to your instructional context, including how the ideas are useful to
All institutions whether attending a university, community, or even a technical college, requires the student to purchase a textbook in order to be successful in the class. Some textbooks aren’t even open all semester and the information and statistics can be out of date and can greatly affect your overall knowledge on certain topics. In addition, cost free text books can enhance the quality of education by the teachers and serve more accessibility to working students. Although councils and administrations can’t approve cost free text books, policies such as, Open Textbook, bookstore rentals, and affordable textbook act should be offered nationwide. As an experienced freshmen surviving the first year of college, textbooks should be purchased free of cost provided by institutions throughout the country.
Open source textbooks can be a great solution to decrease the expenses on the textbooks as all the resources are available on the internet for free. In addition, it can be accessible anywhere at any time so, students shouldn’t carry heavy textbooks all the time. Although, some might argue that many students have habit to study from hard copies or textbooks; they can easily download and print from the open source textbook which might cost only 20 – 40 dollars to print compared to hundreds of dollars on text books. Moreover, it can be easily edited by teachers as per their need, and students can learn what their teachers really want them to focus on. Yet, some might argue that why would professors waste their time editing textbooks when they can easily recommend textbooks to students. Though, they can recommend; the textbooks might always miss something or write more about something which the professor require or don’t respectively. Also, editing the open source textbook is not like writing a textbook which consumes a lot of time, it’s just adding or removing some necessary or unnecessary information. Hence, another problem of buying older versions or new versions books per the teacher’s choice can be easily
Electronic book and Printed book are two kinds of book that most students are using in college. There
As a teacher, is very important to use a wide range of learning and teaching resources, from books or other printed materials so, that students are encouraged to explore issues of interest,