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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t understand how any of this is “easier” than reading a book together as a class, discussing it and then working on a short essay.  Or, a teacher teaching the content in the next chapter in the math textbook.  Using the book practice questions and homework assignments.

Honestly…. All this busy/ make work when the old textbooks have already done the planning for you is self-inflicted. [/quote]
why did we move away from textbooks? Truly dont know how or why that happened over the last 20 years.[/quote]

DP. Textbooks are expensive and get outdated quickly, which then necessitates that either teachers find supplements or schools spend more money on new textbooks. Twenty years ago, we didn't know using digital textbooks would affect student comprehension. [/quote]

I'd love to know what subjects get "outdated quickly" at the FCPS level. Math, science, literature, arts, history - is someone teaching a subject that requires yearly updates?  I doubt it. [/quote]

In Virginia, the standards for these subjects are reviewed and modified every seven years. At the elementary level, it’s common for each grade level to have a few standards that shift down a level and a few that shift up a level each time this happens. It’s also common for the application of the standard to change, such as adding that students now need to interpret a model. So the textbooks do become outdated, in terms of being able to use them effectively and correctly, every seven years. [/quote]Yes, but the bulk of the material remains unchanged for decades.  Algebra concepts are not changing, history is not changing, phonics is not changing, symbolism ix not changing, etc.  The ability to learn the bulk of the material in a straightforward, organized way through an edited and fully vetted textbook far outweighs it missing one VA standard.  [/quote]

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