2. TEACHING AIDS
A teaching aid is a tool used by teachers, facilitators or tutors to help learners
improve reading and other skills, illustrate or reinforce a skill,
fact, or idea and relieve anxiety, fears, or boredom
since many teaching aids are like games.
Teaching aids are the tools that teachers use them in the classroom
such as flash cards, cassette and
blackboard.
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3. DEFINATION
Teaching aid are the aids used by the
facilitator to help him/her in facilitating
his/her lesson effectively.
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4. Characterstics of Teaching aids
* They should be accurate in every aspect
* They should be simple
* They should be meaningful and purposeful.
* They should be cheap.
* They should be improvised as for as possible
* They should be large enough to be properly seen
by the students for whom they are meant.
* They should be up-to-date
* They should be easily portable
* They should be according to the mental level of the students.
* They should motivate they learners
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5. On the basis of characteristic of the material used in the
process of teaching aid classifications as mentioned :
AUDIO AIDS
VISUAL AIDS
AUDIO-VISUAL
AIDS
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6. Audio AIDS
Audio-aids help in developing the listening skill of a learner.
Audio-aids are those aids which can be only listened.
Examples: Radio, Gramophone, Tape recorder,
Audio-tapes, Walkman and Headphones etc.
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7. Aids which require the involvement of learners visual senses are called visual aids.
EXAMPLE: Graphic aids 3d-aids, Display boards and Print material etc.
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8. Audio-Visual AIDS
In these aids both the listening (ears) and viewing faculties (eyes) are
involved.
Example: Television programmes, Video films, Motion pictures,
synchronized audio slide projectors, Computers and computer-assisted
instructions etc.
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10. Projected aids
Aids which are used to introduce concepts by projecting them on a screen
. These are the types of audio visual aids that maximize learning with
the help of both auditory and visual systems .
Advantages:
Provides enjoyment in learning.
Stimulates rapid learning
Increases retention.
Compels attention
Enlarges/ reduces actual size of objects
Bring distant , past and present into classroom
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11. SLIDES
Slide is a still transparency of 70 mm,35mm, or 60 mm, size which is
optically enlarged and projected on a screen as a real image.
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12. Slide projector
Small sized transparent pictorial/diagrammatic slides arranged in a
proper sequence for presentation on a large screen.
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13. Non projected
Those aids which are used without any projection.
Advantages
Educators , scholars and students may use or display non projected
images in connection with lectures or presentations in their fields.
Motivates the students
Presents matter symbolically.
Presents abstracts ideas in visual forms.
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14. CHARTS
A chart is a useful way to present
and display information or
instruction, especially in a
classroom others education
situation.
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16. Advantages of chart
i) They can be made quickly.
ii)They have a better appeal.
iii)Only bare essential can be shown in
the chart and
unnecessary details can be avoided.
iv)Chart are available from various
sources.
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17. Flash cards
Are useful for drilling new letters, and other information.
They are normally used in a classroom , but can also be
used more informally.
It is a part of a set of cards on which are written items to
be studied.
They are flashed (shown quickly)one by one to learner to
elecit a quick response.
Are sets of cards printed with information to be studied,
such as
Defination
Formulas
Letters
Multiplication tables
Prefixes
Words.
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20. NEED AND IMPORTANCE
Clarity
Attention and Interests
Best motivators
Use of maximum senses
Saving time and effort
Fixing and recalling the knowledge
Meeting and individual differences
Encouraging activites
Introductory variety
Development of scientific attitudes
Direct Experiences
Promotion of international understanding
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21. Principles of selection
Educational value
Realization of objectives
Student centredness
Interests and motivation
Simplicity
Relevancy and suitability
Accuracy
Encouragement
Well preparedness
Avoiding to many aids
Means to an end
Integration
Availabilty of resources – size of classrooms , finance , facilities , experienced teachers
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