This document provides guidelines for creating effective visual aids for teaching. It defines visual aids as any object or picture used to help teach a subject. The key types are discussed, as well as the main reasons to use visual aids which are to improve understanding, provide organization, and add credibility. Creating your own visual aids allows them to be directly relevant to your needs and resources. Guidelines are given for choosing visual aids based on the activity and audience. Effective visual aids should be clear, simple, avoid clutter, and reflect the audience's context and familiar items. Examples of using visual aids like flashcards, pictures, and displays are also included.

2. Outline • Definition of VAs
• Some types of VAs
• Reasons to use VAs
• Making your VAs
• Guidelines for making VAs
• Teaching with Audio-visual aid
• Teaching with Flash cards
• Guided writing with pictures
• Washing line
• Display board
• Traffic lights
• Wonder wall

3. A visual aid is any object or
picture that relates to the
subject being taught. Posters,
pictures, or even the object
itself can be used to help
teach.

4. What are the types of visual aid?

6. • Improves audience
understanding and
memory
• Serves as notes
• Provides clearer
organization
• Facilitates more eye
contact and motion by
the speaker
• Contributes to speaker
credibility

8. • it is less expensive than
buying ready-made visual
aids
• you can choose visual
aids which are directly
relevant and appropriate
to you.
• you can design your visual
aid to suit your resources,
your purposes and your
students’ or learners’
needs.

9.  There are a number of issues to
think about carefully before
starting to make a visual aid:
• Can you involve the students in
making the visual aid?
• Can you bring in the real object
instead of drawing the object
the board?
• Can you use local cheap
materials?
• Are they suitable for the
students’ needs?

10. Before you make a visual aid, you need to decide
which category your activity fits into.
What are you trying to communicate?
What is your aim?

11. Before choosing the appropriate
visual aid and drawing the first
version, you need to consider
the following questions:
• Are the students-learners
visually literate?
• Are they familiar with the
process of finding out
information from pictures and
symbols?
• Can they understand them?

12. • To be effective you need to take the gender,
age, class, caste and ethnic characteristics of
the students into account
• It is important that the visual aid reflects a
current and particular situation.

13. • Visual aids should be clear. Do not
overcrowd the poster or board with
too many pictures or words.
• Keep pictures as simple as possible.
• A picture is better understood when
it has one clear meaning. Use a
series of pictures to explain more
than one thing or a sequence of
events.
• Pictures will be more successful if
they are based on what is familiar
locally - faces, clothes, houses,
utensils, and so on.
• Leave out backgrounds as these
draw attention away from the
message

14. Audio-visual aids
Name Profession Power definition How to change the
world?

17. A picnic

18. To pack …
Packing …
What do we pack for a picnic ?

20. Bread/food
Mp3 player/music Napkins / towels …
Carpet / pillow
Dishes
Cups
vacuum bottle Fruit

21. Now everything is packed up.
where do we go ?
To unpack / to put food on the carpet …

22. Exploring the place
Taking pictures Gathering wood for fire

23. Playing / games Football
tennis
Freesby
Chess

24. To unpack / to put food
on the carpet …
Exploring the place
Gathering wood for fire
Chess Taking pictures
Freesby
Football
tennis

25. You come back to the place you left food … then …

26. Task in class
Students ( in groups if possible ) will write a
paragraph (or more ) in which they narrate the
events illustrated in the previous pictures.
Follow up
Students will be asked to finish the story of
the picnic on their own as a homework.