Short Essay on Text Books

One of the important aids in teaching process is book. Books occupy a central and prominent place in all the teaching and learning processes whether the process is related to any subject. The role played by text books in the teaching process is so important that some experts are of the view that it is on the quality of text books that the quality of teaching depends.

Text books provide great assistance and help not only to the students but also to the teachers as through them, students become able to get acquainted with the limitations and boundaries of subject matter which is being taught by the teacher. In this respect, work load of teacher becomes lighten to some extent with the help of text books.

Text books play an important role in saving the time and energy of the students as well as of the teachers as generally such books are readily available in the form of subject matter which is related to a particular or specific subject and they are written by experienced and eminent authors.

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With the help of these text books, teacher find it easy to maintain the uniformity of the standard within the different sections of the school but also in different schools situated in different parts of the nation.

Today, the criterion or parameters which are followed while writing the text books are not proper, as a result of which quality of such books is also found to be inferior. A great importance or consideration is being assigned to the syllabi and no consideration is paid to the interest and abilities of the students in any way.

While writing the text books, this point should be born in the mind that one of an important aim of text books should be to help in bringing an overall development of the students. Matter of the text book should be such by going through which students’ attitude can become scientific and their perspective can become more developed and widen in nature. It should be of such quality by which students can understand their present as well as future requirements and can make modifications in themselves in accordance with the changing environment or conditions.

In effective teaching and learning, printed material plays an important role, as it is one of the essential part of science curricula. For this reason, it is important that science text books should be written in such form by which students can not only get the important information but also a positive and scientific development can take place in their outlook and perspective.

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By making use of these books, students should be able to appreciate the value of scientific developments in their life and they should get attracted towards this subject by which they should indulged in all the activities by which information relating to new scientific discoveries can be obtained.