Reflection
First
of all, I think that this week’s task is quite challenging than the one in
previous tasks. We were given a textbook which is needed to be evaluated using
a current checklist. So, we decided to use William’s checklist as it is simpler
and less complicated. As a pre-service teacher, I actually find it hard to do
the evaluation because we are lack of teaching experience and we only able to make
assumptions on what will fit the local classroom and what will not fit them. We
evaluated all four skills in one of the topic and try out all the activities
given to identify whether they are within the circle of local classroom
proficiency level and here it comes where William’s checklist works as a guideline
for us to examined what are the criteria available and absent in the textbook. Honestly,
many things came across my mind when we were given this task. Why do we have to
evaluate the textbook since it is already being used in the classroom, how to
evaluate effectively using the checklist, should we really evaluate this
according to teachers’ beliefs as what’s suitable for students or to follow
what the education department has outline for the school? However, after
completing this task, I believe that textbook evaluation is to enable teachers
to find the weaknesses of the content, thus teachers can find ways to develop
new materials to teach that particular topic so that the learning objectives
are achieved at the end of the lesson.
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