SEMINAR
ON
INSTRUCTIONAL AIDS
SAKSHI RANA
M.Sc. NURSING
INSTRUCTIONAL AIDS
INSTRUCTIONAL AIDS
• These are materials that are use to aid in the
transference of information from one to
another.
• Instruction aids are devices that assist an
instructor in the teaching learning process.
DEFINITION
Teaching aids are materials that the
classroom teacher uses to help students
understand the concepts she/he introduces
during her/his lesson.
TYPES OF INSTRUCTIONAL AIDS
Instructional Aids
Audio
Aids
Visual
Aids
Audio – Visual
Aids
Activity
Aids
1. AUDIO AIDS
AUDIO AIDS
1. Voice Mail
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2. Compact Disc
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3. Gramophone
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4. Radio
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5. Tape Record
2. VISUAL AIDS
VISUAL AIDS
Visual
Projected
Non projected
PROJECTED AIDS
a) PROJECTED AIDS
1. Slides
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2. Film strip
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3. Overhead projector
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4. Computer
NON PROJECTED AIDS
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1. Maps
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2. Cartoons
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3. Charts
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4. Pictures
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5. Posters
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6. Flash card
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7. Flip chart
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8. Graphs
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9. Booklets
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10. Puppets
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11. Models
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• 12.Chalk and Board
3. AUDIO-VISUAL
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1. Films
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2. Computer floppies
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3. Television
4. ACTIVITY AIDS
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1. Museum
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2. Exhibition
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3. Field trip
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4. Role play
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5. Drama
IMPORTANCE
• Motivation
• Clarification
• Discouragement of cramming
• Increase the vocabulary
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• Save time and money
• Classroom live and activity
• Avoid dullness
• Direct experience
USES
• The audio-visual department for acquiring,
coordinating and providing counseling about
the use of AV-aids in school/ college.
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• Teacher must update their knowledge about
teaching aids through professional
association and journals.
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• The training session should be held for
effective use of audio-visual aids.
• Appropriateness
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• Authenticity
• Interest
• Organization and Balance
• Cost effective
SELECTION
• When used without proper selection and
preparation, the effective power of such aids
is lost.
• It is also true that in different situations,
certain teaching aids will be more effective
than other.
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• Variety in teaching aids is the soul of an
effective lesson.
Criteria for the selection of audio-
visual aids/teaching aids
• Subject relatedness
• Supplementary role
• Accuracy
• Accessibility
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• Variety
• Cost-effectiveness
• Previewing
• Utility
PREPARATION
Prepare yourself
Prepare your students
Present the material
Follow up
UTILIZATION
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• Utilization of teaching aids is done by
improving the teaching process.
• By using the all advance technology for the
benefits of people.
• For the improvement of teaching.
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• In the utilization of teaching resource in the
classroom setting there are some plans and
principles followed by the teacher which
include: -
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a) Preparing himself/herself:
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b) Preparing the environment:
BASIC GUIDELINES IN THE USE OF
INSTRUCTIONAL AIDS
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• Support the lesson objective.
• Build on previous learning.
• Contain useful and meaningfully content
that is constant with sound principal of
learning.
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• Maintain student attention and interest.
• Encourage student participation.
• Provide proper stimuli and reinforcement.
• Contain quality photo, graphs and text as
required.
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• Be check prior to use for completeness and
technical accuracy.
• Contain appropriate terminology for the
student.
• Be properly sequenced.
• Be easy to understand
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• The use of any instructional aid must be
planned, based on its ability to support a
specific point in a lesson.
• A simple method or process can be used.
• Clearly establish the lesson objective. Be
containing of what is to be communicate.
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• Gather the necessary data by researching for
support material.
• The plan should include important safety
consideration.
• Select the ideas to be supported with
instructional aids.
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• The aids should be concentrated on the key
points.
• Aids are often appropriate when long
segments of technical description are
necessary.
ADVANTAGES
• It can be used by students for problem
solving.
• Teaching aids makes learning permanent.
• Teaching aids are helpful in attracting
attention of the students.
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• Teaching aids saves time and energy.
• Teaching aids encourages the healthy classroom
instruction.
• It is also helpful in creating positive environment for
discipline.
• Teaching aids helps in providing speech training to
the people.
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• Teaching aids help in development of various
skills such as how to draw a diagram of the topic
among the students.
• Teaching aids provide variety.
• Teaching aids provide good substitutes for the
real object as they make learning equally
meaningful.
DISVANTAGES
• Cost of the material.
• Some of the AV-aids are time consuming.
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• Today both teachers and students are overly
dependent on electronic gadgets which can be
physically and mentally harmful for young
students.
Instructional aids

Instructional aids