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method.) He made learning to read and write more reasonable to students. Using a different approach of "whole to part", McGuffey made a series of textbooks for student use. Each level got increasingly difficult, making the learning a gradual process. This also made teaching easier because the approach was more effective and understandable. The textbooks greatly helped the students understand, lessening the work of the teacher. McGuffey's books sold very well, as more and more schools started to…

collected from these studies to conclude that males excel in, and also enjoy these particular subjects over females. Females did not seem to be as comfortable as males in these fields of interest, many factors contribute to that, including: images in textbooks, stereotypes, comprehension of the material, and their overall confidence. There…

many civilizations that flourished around this time. There are many philosophical and/or religious factors that arose during this period, some of which are, but are not limited to, the sacrifice of humans for religious purposes. According to the textbook on page 326, "… The most frequently cited aspect of Aztec culture is human sacrifice, which was linked with religious ritual." Many people today portray the sacrifices back to the ancient civilizations to those of the aspects like sacrifices, to…

The textbook suggests that for exams to write practice answers and make models (Ciccarelli & White, 2015). This information is extremely helpful because normally I would just reread all the information from my notes and reread the textbook chapters and never really retain the information I read. If I write down the practice answers and make sense out of the information by…

that I will need to approve my practices with my administration and have their support before they will ever be fully effective. I want to use books in my classroom beyond a textbook. I do not want to be the teacher that teaches directly from a given textbook and never broadens their horizons beyond that information. Textbooks are excellent resources, but being limited to only one book does a disservice to my future students and the future minds of our…

An U.S. history textbook would portray Iran as the devil who took American hostages, yet an Iranian textbook would glorify the country as an utopia. In the eyes of an average American, Iran is considered an enemy due to unjust grouping with terrorist people, but the imposed theocratic state also causes trouble…

experiences with her father, Walls learns the true value and importance of relationships and begins to spend time with her husband. In due course, through this true form of education, Walls was able to learn lessons that guided her through her life, which textbook education would not helped in such…

I selected the article Keeping Perspective in Youth Sport as it related to Chapter 3: Sports for Children in our Kinesiology textbook. In this chapter, I learned about the relationship between sports and children and found it very interesting. As I read this AASP article, I noticed how the author included similar topics that were related to the textbook’s chapter. Additionally, I personally felt connected to them since I participated in basketball as a leisurely activity during the weekends as a…

Also, people could visit and tour these cathedrals which could not have been awful and “dark”. The second source is a paragraph that is part of a world history textbook created by several people. It was published in the year 1954. The point of view in this source is that the Dark Ages were indeed “dark”. This point of view is shown through the quote, “Europe passed through a time of turmoil and confusion, of ignorance…

If the slaves built the Great Pyramid at Giza is very hard to know. I believe that most of the workers were slaves but, I think a small number of them were paid workers. The sources Herodotus and the textbook showed that the slaves did build the Great Pyramid at Giza. Herodotus and the textbook states that the king forced the Egyptian slaves to work for 20 years. They also state over 10,000 men worked on building the pyramid. The source Shiffman said a large number of the workers were…