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julie 🥽🧪🧵@CasquetteGirl · Sep 24, 2026

My hot take as a (STEM) instructor is that you should have read the textbook chapter ahead of it actually being…

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A STEM instructor argues students should read textbook chapters before lectures to maximize learning, particularly in chemistry and physics courses with heavy derivations. They acknowledge this advice is field and course-structure dependent.

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  1. #1

    My hot take as a (STEM) instructor is that you should have read the textbook chapter ahead of it actually being covered in class to effectively get the most out of lectures. Lecture should not be the first time you’re encountering concepts. That’s the point of the textbook.

    Kit Fisto’s Burner@KitFistosBurner · Sep 23, 2026

    When are professors gonna understand that not a single soul is reading the textbook before they lecture, we have fuckin lives outside of school

  2. #2

    I’m preemptively adding on here that this is for chemistry/physics courses heavily based on derivations and figures. My math heavy courses have always had their syllabi built around at least one textbook. This guidance is super dependent on your field/course structure!