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Ep 8. Lessons from around the world with Lucy Crehan

Chalk & Talk

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The Importance of Having Good Textbooks

In Finland and the Asian countries that you visited, there were high quality textbooks that teachers were using. The teacher guides contained really useful guidance and knowledge about what we would call pedagogical content knowledge. And then the lessons aren't scripted. I would not, in any of the countries that I went to, the lessons weren't scripted. They used intelligently and as a tool to support the lesson,. But it's not doesn't make up the whole of the lesson, just reading from the textbook.

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