1. Republic of Panama
Ministery of Education
ISAE University
Subject: General Didactics
Topic: MATERIALS AND RESOURCES FOR ELT
Name: Darielys Rodriguez.
Teacher: Aniluz,Ortega Carrillo
2. The blackboard as didactic support
The blackboard is the element that shapes the school climate. It allows:
• The creation of ideas through ideogenic drawings. The blackboard is
a source of emerging images that develop in view of the
students. It allows providing a graphic, dynamic support adapted to the
varied situations that occur during a class.
• Improve the understanding of the explanation through the illus-
trative
• Attract the interest of the students towards the explanation. All the elements
The expressive coughs we use on the blackboard are made at the moment and
they constitute an act of creation that adds interest to the exhibition.
3. Visual aids: realia, flashcards, wall charts and
posters
Realia is all kinds of objects that, without having been specifically designed for learning, are used in
educational or educational processes. Its use is frequent and traditional for science, language or
artistic classes. Thus, for example, the following are considered:When a science teacher uses rocks,
flowers or waste objects, he is using realia.
4. Flashcards
They are not only used to teach basic concepts to children, but they are often used to improve the
memorization of vocabulary, dates, historical facts and, of course, languages
• The flashcards are very effective learning tabs when it comes to memorizing information. Each card is like a
card with two faces, the front and the back. On the front we write the word, date, formula or image that we
want to memorize. On the reverse we will write the translation, pronunciation, explanation, solution to the
problem or details about the historical fact mentioned in the front.
5. Wall chart.
WallChart, a technique in which words or ideas are put on colored cards that are stuck on a wall
grouped in different ways.
6. Poster
The poster is the graphic presentation of the scientific work. It is a practical, efficient and modern
way of medical communication where the most important aspects of the investigation should be
pointed out.
7. The Textbook
Textbooks, they point out, not only transmit knowledge, but also social values and a greater
understanding of history and the world
8. Hand-made materials
The environment, nature and the immediate environment provide abundant possibilities
that can be used in favor of children in the teaching-learning process.The didactic
materials elaborated with resources of the environment provide experiences that children
can take advantage of to identify properties, classify, establish similarities and differences,
solve problems, among others and, at the same time, it helps teachers to interrelate in a
better way with their students. , being then the opportunity for the teaching-learning
process to be more profound.
9. Audio Resources
The use of the sound medium facilitates various forms of
expression, understood as "the manifestation of
Reflection processes that involve the ability to conceptualize and
acquire knowledge,
motivated in turn by the multisensory perception and the experience of
each individual. "(Moreno, 1998). The expression
therefore a creative process activates transformation mechanisms and
constantly seeks new possibilities
Communication.
10. Visual resources
Video is one of the means or didactic resources
that, pedagogically employed, serve to facilitate
teachers the transmission of knowledge and to the
students the assimilation of these. The current ease
of publishing videos allows to share with comfort
the ideas of the students and their solutions, as well
as innovative and effective practices.
11. The Internet.
Through the use of the Internet, it is possible, for the first time in the
history of education, for the mind to be freed from having to retain a huge
amount of information. It is only necessary to understand the concepts on
the dynamics of the processes in which an information is framed, this
allows to use pedagogical methods with which the student can learn more
and better in a year which required three. Now teachers can use their
efforts and that of the students to develop more mental abilities that
enable students to properly understand the information and elaborate
creatively and thus produce a superior quality of reasoning.