Language for Academic Reading
Reading from the text book in a Tech Ed class is generally reserved for when the teacher is away. Shop time is valuable and reducing it so students can read from the class textbooks is a waste of that limited resource. There isn’t funding for each student to have their own text book anymore. There is some reading front loaded on the course to cover safety, but once that is done reading isn’t a large part of the learning anymore. Even subjects in Tech Ed that have more of a theoretical component, other forms of learning, rather than reading a text book, are what we have been trained to use while at BCIT learning to be Tech Teachers.