Hereabouts, we call it “weather-weather.” Elsewhere, it is called the inevitable pendulum swing or regression towards the mean. That worldwide and eternal phenomenon now applies to textbooks. Before ...
As a recent college graduate in the early 1990s, with fewer books under my belt than many of my students and almost no developed competencies in teaching, I landed one of the most coveted teaching ...
Often school district curriculum manuals sat on shelves collecting dust. Renewed from time to time, they kept company with the state curriculum manuals. A form of old accountability and consistency ...
Most of my memories from middle and high school math involve using a textbook: “Turn to page 237 and complete problems 2-20 even.” This was not a particularly engaging or empowering way for me to ...
Technology plays a minor role in transforming teachers and our educators need support In recent years innovation in technology has compressed the world into a pocket-sized edition with everything at ...
Log in to your myMiami faculty portal and select Faculty Textbook Adoption. Choose the course you wish to edit and select options beneath Course Adoption Details ...
THE use of textbooks for teaching in the classroom has its pros and cons and its advantages and disadvantages are often debated. At a higher level, books can only be recommended rather than mandated ...