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Textbooks are one of the most important tools when it comes to learning. Somewhere along the way, students I believe have come to think that they just don't need one. At the beginning of a semester, so many students come to their first class without a textbook. When asked why they are without a book they say they didn't want to waste their money on something they may not need. They thought they would come to their first class, feel their teacher out, and make a decision then on whether or not they think it will be useful to them. When did this become the norm?
Sometimes it's hard for teachers to remember that students will not dedicate all of their attention to everything that they are saying. There are so many students with learning disabilities or different techniques of learning. Having a book to look back to after class can help clarify questions, a student may have or for some it's somewhere that they can go to on their time where it's quite and they can reflect on class in their own way.
You may have a teacher whose teaching style you just don't jive with. For whatever reason everything your teacher says may make absolutely no sense to you. By having a textbook to fall back on you can then make sense out of what you learned by combining the teachers thoughts with your book.
Textbooks contain so much more content then one teacher can cover on their own. Teachers only have so much time to spend with you. The research that our textbooks provide can help them with the students learning experience. This gives the teacher the ability to focus on things they feel are important and rely on the book to teach you the things that they just don't have time to do.
There are many strategies I believe teachers can use to keep students focused and interested in there textbooks. I think teachers need to keep the book as part of the class learning experience, incorporating it with their curriculum. Giving students assignments that force them to pull information from their books. When teachers stray from the textbooks and use other sources, so will their students. There is so much technology out there today, not that that is wrong to search for information outside of your books but I think it's a great starting point for all students.
I also think it's important to keep textbooks current. It's way easier to keep students interested in their textbooks if they can relate to them. I personally find it more interesting when I have to read an assignment out of my textbook and I can relate to it in some way whether it is a chapter in English about how to write an essay and there is an example essay about the current economic downfall. I find it interesting to have to read a chapter out of my math textbook but the examples relate to current on the job experiences. We just need to make students realize that book are no longer an just an option, we need to make them realize what a great tool they really can be.
Really struggling with this essay....
I would really appreciate any and all comments. I feel I was really all over the place with this essay.
Textbooks are one of the most important tools when it comes to learning. Somewhere along the way, students I believe have come to think that they just don't need one. At the beginning of a semester, so many students come to their first class without a textbook. When asked why they are without a book they say they didn't want to waste their money on something they may not need. They thought they would come to their first class, feel their teacher out, and make a decision then on whether or not they think it will be useful to them. When did this become the norm?
Sometimes it's hard for teachers to remember that students will not dedicate all of their attention to everything that they are saying. There are so many students with learning disabilities or different techniques of learning. Having a book to look back to after class can help clarify questions, a student may have or for some it's somewhere that they can go to on their time where it's quite and they can reflect on class in their own way.
You may have a teacher whose teaching style you just don't jive with. For whatever reason everything your teacher says may make absolutely no sense to you. By having a textbook to fall back on you can then make sense out of what you learned by combining the teachers thoughts with your book.
Textbooks contain so much more content then one teacher can cover on their own. Teachers only have so much time to spend with you. The research that our textbooks provide can help them with the students learning experience. This gives the teacher the ability to focus on things they feel are important and rely on the book to teach you the things that they just don't have time to do.
There are many strategies I believe teachers can use to keep students focused and interested in there textbooks. I think teachers need to keep the book as part of the class learning experience, incorporating it with their curriculum. Giving students assignments that force them to pull information from their books. When teachers stray from the textbooks and use other sources, so will their students. There is so much technology out there today, not that that is wrong to search for information outside of your books but I think it's a great starting point for all students.
I also think it's important to keep textbooks current. It's way easier to keep students interested in their textbooks if they can relate to them. I personally find it more interesting when I have to read an assignment out of my textbook and I can relate to it in some way whether it is a chapter in English about how to write an essay and there is an example essay about the current economic downfall. I find it interesting to have to read a chapter out of my math textbook but the examples relate to current on the job experiences. We just need to make students realize that book are no longer an just an option, we need to make them realize what a great tool they really can be.
