Some teachers use textbooks as the whole part of their daily practice, but others prefer no textbooks in their classes or they prefer to select some material presented in them.
If a teacher decides to choose a textbook, she´ll wait a period of time to know their students´previous knowledge, rhythm of learning, level of proficiency, needs and likes. In that way, the teacher can select the most appropiate textbook for them.
However, a lesson can be great and successful always you take into account organization and always you feel sure about your own decisions.
I think we, as teachers, can´t base our lessons only on a textbook.
I think we, as teachers, can´t base our lessons only on a textbook.
I found a chart which presents some advantages and disadvantages of using textbooks:
What do you think? How necessary is a textbook?
Hi Karen!! I find this topic really interesting... Today I was thinking about this!!! I completely agree with you when you said that we , as teachers, can't base our lessons only on a textbook. In my opinion, we need a textbook in order to organize both ourselves and our students. It should be used as a tool, not as a bible!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you raised this topic,Karen. I'm going to provide you material to work with, so as to encourage comments.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Milagros when she states we should not follow a book blindly: they should be used as supplementary material to enrich our classes.They also have plenty of good ideas to take and adapt to our needs.
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ReplyDeleteI like this entry because this is an important topic to take into account when being teachers. (and before!). As the chart says, these books may present irrelevant topics or information, that may not involve students at all. It has to do also with the social and economical position and the access student have to certain tools or materials. It is teacher's work to help students understand these 'complicated' aspects found in books, or just ommit them and focus in relevant and IMPORTANT topics. In this way, we facilitate the learning and we make sure students learn interesting content. Moreover, as we've been discusing, CLIL is a method that propones the interaction between different subjects, and this means leave the textbook aside sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI´m very happy that you enjoyed this topic ! You wrote very interesting and real situations we, as teachers, should take into account. Thanks !
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