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Wow! I can't relate to this at all since I'm at a private
school. For this and many other reasons, I could/would never
teach in a public school (for any amount of money).
Unfortunately many schools mandate the books. The director ofPhysics is a
instruction in the school I was at not only insisted that I have a
book, but made me change the book from the one I wanted to something
else. Actually that is when I ended up leaving. Minds on
book you can lean on because it has activities and resembles anot take
workbook, but it has condensed readings in the back which do
much time. Basically the students were assigned a shortreading each
class period which was tightly coordinated with the activities whichmind that they
were done in class.
But students complained it was not a "real" book. Never
won't crack open real books except to do the simplistic backof chapter
homework. MOP by contrast was heavily used in class. I refuse tohome, but a
assign back of chapter work as it is all available on the web and
sometimes for free. MOP activities were often finished at
lot of them were done in class, along with the various labs.be ideal
The DI at my school even insisted on a computer science book when I
suggested a very good free online one. After all that would
for CS. Then she asked for my recommendation of a CS bookwhen I had
full time physics and no more CS classes. But I could not recommendunreadable by the
any of them, so she picked the hardest one that was
students. Then she was intending to teach psychology, but tried tosomeone else to
read the book, and couldn't understand it, so she hired
teach it from the same book.mandated book and
How could she expect the students to use the book if she couldn't.
The community college that I teach at part time has a
I have no input!!! I am not "allowed" to recommend placeswhere they
can get it much more cheaply than the campus store. I alwaysproblems
coordinate readings with what we do in class, but never take
from it. Instead I put HW on the private course web site.(home)work
John M. Clement
Houston, TX
Very interesting. I don't use books any more in my (high
school) classes.
They are not written for students to understand and are way too
encyclopedic (and expensive).
And students have no time to read them with all the other
they have to do.
I use my own notes to teach the ten topics I get to each year.
Nothing beats an engaging physics teacher in class to make physics
come alive.
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