Schools and Instruction Books

This book is filled with redundancy and knowledge common to any college student. It has no teaching methods and never touches learning style. Well, unless you want to count the short section on lecture. We all know what it takes to make an interesting lecture or promote student learning with questions. We have been in college. This book is a true waste of money.

This book has some great ideas for teaching a class room and then it has some outdated material and ideas that should have been edited out of the book years ago. For example, "textbook recitation is an effective technique for teaching basic information simply because students are often motivated to read and study the assignment in anticipation of being called on to recite the information." What planet is this author from? There may be one out of a thousand students who would actually read in "anticipation" of being called on in class. There are better books available to new teachers like "Understanding by Design."

The need is evident. The source of the solution is not. I mean, why go to an Italian critic to write such a book? Curious.

after looking forward to seeing the paintings hyped in the description of this book, i was shocked by the diminutive reproductions - the size of which is so small as to make the physical limitations of halftone a factor in viewing the artwork (look closely at the photographic illustrations in any cheap newspaper and you'll get the idea : in this book, the dots are a significant percentage of the image size)

sorry for wasting the time, effort and money on this purchase

This book was the textbook for one of our classes in music education. I think it's very poor because it's so unintelligent (thin) and boring and, compared to texts we use in other music courses (e.g. music history), it's unscholarly and sloppy. For example, this book repeats a whole pile of dead information that any undergrad can find in MENC blurbs and MENC 'propaganda'. I think Mark must be paid as a cheerleader for MENC. Being forced to read this book is like being forced to read a cereal box. And look at his discussion of 'philosophy' in this book; Mark thinks he's a scholar, but he is so obvioulsy clueless and biased. One more thing --- even I can find all sorts of typos and errors in the BIB and I'm just a senior!! The bottom line for me and my classmates is this: a poor author + a poor editor = a lousy book!! We want our money back!!

This book should be titled, "A Different Way To Draw Action Dragonball Z" When I bought the series of these books for my children, I had hoped it taught sound and practiced drawing techniques that I wanted them to see, inline with what I taught them. Disappointed to say the least. If you get a chance to look at the book before you buy, just do one thing first... Look at page 16... need I say more.
(ps. the 1 star is for the colouring-in use my youngest gets from it)

You are puchasing an article not a book. As an article it is very informative but not worth 5.95. I feel that it should be stated in the beginning that you are puchasing an article not a book. however, my fault for not reading the entire description

I bought this book new for about $20 or so...we didn't even use it in our class and I don't think I ever even opened it. I sold it back and only got $3 for it. Such a waste of money if you ask me.