We start with the proposals to change Education that yesterday I promised to go telling. The first is this: do not use textbooks.
The textbooks They are not bad for themselves. They offer us a content guide and as such we can incorporate them and use them in the classroom. Always considering them as a resource among all possible, but not allowing them to define our actions or serve as a fundamental basis of learning. We cannot let textbooks kill the passion for learning.
Maintained in this way, as a support resource, they may be valid, but to achieve a real change in our way of facing the programming of a course and as a basis for the child to learn, my recommendation is to avoid them until we are able again of using them only as an optional resource. But while, let's be creative.
Not working based on the textbook will allow us to offer the child the possibility, of incalculable value, to learn that knowledge is everywhere and that, in our society, it is much more important to know how to look for it and analyze the veracity of The source to follow him blindly.
There are many alternative possibilities to textbooks, and the fundamental one is the teacher, a true pillar on which learning and content must be based. Your ability to choose, your flexibility, your knowledge and your commitment are essential.
We will see how it can be structured a course without textbooks in following articles, in which I will suggest alternative sources and tools that, with a little more effort, will make, in the end, the classroom become what it should be, a space for growth and enjoyment.
Of course, in many schools, the choice of using or not using textbooks will be given by the ideology and the school program. But in the classroom they are not mandatory, each teacher can choose to use them more or less, have them as testimonial support or follow them lesson after lesson as the main source and as an element on which to evaluate the knowledge acquired.
Other additional advantages will be to discharge to families of superfluous expenses and also, allow children to not have to carry such heavy backpacks.
Therefore, my first proposal to change Education It remains this: within your means, do not use textbooks. Tomorrow, another.
