Teaching the Curriculum
Most teachers are given a textbook or some type of curriculum to follow. Many teachers worry that they will not be able to cover all of the material that they need to be teaching within the course of the school year. However, simply covering each lesson in a textbook from cover to cover does not mean that you are truly teaching. Teaching is about much more than regurgitating information from a book. Some teachers struggle between teaching what the students need and teaching what is needed for the tests. There are teachers who lean on both sides of this struggle. … Continue reading