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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there a reason why textbooks aren’t used anymore? [/quote]

I'm a teacher and I student taught in 2000-2001. I had a textbook for every subject in 4th grade. We would teach from the teacher's manual. It was pretty much the same as my own education (one spelling pattern per week in the textbook plus a test on Friday, one math unit from the textbook plus a test at the end, one basal reader plus a grammar and vocabulary workbook, a science and social studies textbook). There weren't many worksheets except for copies made from blackline masters that came with the textbooks.

Fast forward a few years and I came back from maternity leave and they were dumping all of the textbooks in the dumpsters (this made the news when someone took a photo of it). We were told that only weak teachers relied on textbooks. Gone were the basal readers and we had to start making/finding our own resources. This was before internet resources like Teachers Pay Teachers became popular. I spent hours making worksheets. It was awful and frustrating. Then in came the tech and the promises of people who had probably never been in the classroom. Tech will personalize learning! Now we are required to use certain apps a certain number of hours each week starting in kindergarten. Teachers have to write lesson plans based on awful curriculum. We know it isn't appropriate for ours kids but we have no choice. Nothing is our choice. They like to say we are the experts but we are't allowed to make any instructional decisions. We have to be on x lesson by x day or we have people breathing down our necks. We are observed by people who may have never taught our content or grade level. I teach kindergarten but the lowest grade any of my admin has ever taught is 5th grade. I don't even recognize my job anymore. I miss teaching.[/quote]

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