UbD 3

I am glad this chapter included the concern that some teachers only teach out of the textbook and they use the textbook as the curriculum instead of a resource.  Sticking to the standards and teaching the content will not be accomplished is a teacher sticks to the book. The boy may cover less or extra material than you need to cover. Instead, it is important to have a textbook to look up information and for a resource, and use the rest of class teaching in other ways. This made me realize why my high school Honors Biology teacher was so dull and boring and lifeless, even his voice was monotone. His lessons were from the textbook, his vocab tests were from the textbook, his labs were from the textbook, and his homework was from the textbook. If you lost your textbook, you might as well drop the class because you needed it for every minute of every class. I think that it is important not to do this, and to not just teach from the book because the content is all laid out for you on every page. This is why a teacher needs to be confident in their content area. If they are not confident about the content they are teaching, they won’t have the foundation in their mind in order to get creative with the lessons and activities they create and the way the approach and present the content. By reflecting on this, I understand why textbooks are there, but I learned that the textbook should not be the lesson plan.