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What is the problem with textbooks?
Use Textbooks Wisely
| Weakness | Student Difficulty |
|---|---|
| Textbook doesn’t take students’ background knowledge into account. | Teacher does not tailor lessons to the specific attributes and interests of students. |
| Reading level of the textbook is too difficult. | Students cannot read or understand important concepts. |
What to do if you find a mistake in a textbook?
If there is an unofficial errata list, it should include contact information for the person who’s maintaining it; send a report to them. For a text or monograph with a smaller audience, you will probably do better to contact the author directly; look for contact info on their professional web page.
How do I make my textbook more interesting?
5 ways to make ‘textbook lessons’ more interesting
- Add an element of randomness to the lesson.
- Give students a choice.
- Link the content of the textbook to current events or give very bizarre/memorable examples.
- Use a resource that gives the lesson ‘wow’ factor.
- Get students to work collaboratively.
How do you handle student errors?
9 Powerful Ways to Correct your Student’s Mistakes Without Destroying Their Confidence
- Praise them, and be genuine about it.
- Make sure your corrections are educational.
- Give understandable feedback.
- Give them a model.
- It’s all about the process, NOT natural ability.
- Think about timing.
- Consider ‘sandwiching’ corrections.
Are textbooks effective?
Textbooks don’t work well. Research shows that with rare exceptions they do not help improve student achievement much. They are not effective because effectiveness doesn’t sell. “They never earned any awards for effectiveness because to my knowledge awards for effectiveness do not exist” in the textbook industry.
Are there mistakes in textbooks?
to the editor: Incorrect items or errors and gross mistakes or blunders in textbooks occasionally appear and are usually quickly detected and attended to. However, some blunders persist uncorrected for long periods.
Are spelling errors common in books?
The truth is that there are typos in every book the first time it goes to print. Unfortunately, there may still be typos even in new books – they just haven’t been seen by enough eyes to catch every single one of those 150,000 characters.
Which errors should be corrected?
Here are the main types of mistakes that need to be corrected:
- Grammatical mistakes (mistakes of verb tenses, preposition use, etc.)
- Vocabulary mistakes (incorrect collocations, idiomatic phrase usage, etc.)