Friday, November 18, 2011

Choosing a Textbook and Other Printed Materials

By Prof. Latoya Murray H.


Choosing a texbook may seem to be an easy task to carry out but the truth it is not anything like that. It takes time and dedication to find a textbook that can fullfl our students' needs as well as our own. 
There are many things that we need to take in account before deciding to use a textbook. Content for example, is an important part in a textbook, and we need to look at it because that is what we are going to be using to teach our lessons.
According to the article from Curtain ,H & Pesola "Many schools programs come up with a curriculum that is not dependent on the use of a text series for at least the two first years, but it is very hard to mantain a well articulated local curriculum over a large period of time without reference to a professionally developed text series. In the absence of  satyisfactory commercil text series, some school systems have invested the funding and the effort necessary to create succesful locally developed materials for an entire elementary school sequence."

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