to book or not to book
This past year my school changed their series of books we use. The new series of books have all the answers but don't teach the course like I'm used to, the older books had a tutorial that ran through them. So I teach out of the old book, but refer to the new book when there is something of high importance I want them to remember or use.
Learning to adapt or change is stressful, but necessary to keep information up to date. We are also demonstrating that we are adaptable, the same thing we ask them to be. I attempt to use strategies such change pages, but the content can be very similar to previous editions, just emphasis what is different. Change is inevitable, it is how we deal with it that matters. Keep what we need to and change the rest, but do not re-invent the wheel totally, use what you can to assist in decreasing prep time requirements.
it's always a struggle to work we books we don't like to use, or we may prefer to use the older version we used to give to our students. Especially when books changes every year due to some publisher that just want to make some extra money with "new edition" but the with the same content can add stress and confusion to instructor to write new book pages or chapter number to update syllabus and lesson plans, but also applied stress on student that have been droping a class and have the old book to repeat the class.
