They offer me the ability to stay on task with my lessons and allow the students to easily follow along with me. If the school that I eventually teach in does not have the necessary projection equipment, I have already looked into purchasing some myself. A small attachment can be purchased that plugs into your laptop computer. This attachment will then be placed onto a common overhead projector. This item costs around a hundred dollars and would greatly aid me in this endeavor.
Some teachers use just the textbooks that they are given.
I will not be one of those teachers. Too much information is left out of textbooks and they are often written with an inherent bias. The best way for students to learn about history is with primary sources. Document Sets for Western Civilization . DC Health and Company, 1995.