Chapter 7 Teaching Difficult Academic Material

A section of chapter seven that jumped out at me was when the chapter mentioned how teaching out of the textbook can successfully be done. The chapter suggests that when a teacher assigns a reading it should have a point to it and it should involve what is being taught in the classroom.

The section of chapter five that discussed textbooks jumped out at me because it reminded me of a history teacher I had who did a very good job of including the textbook within the class. About half of his classes consisted of a short reading assignment involving what was being discussed in class. While the reading was usually met with a mixed response, he asked us to do it because the textbook had a very different interpretation then what we learned in class. Using these multiple interpretations the class got a much bigger perspective on what they learned.