The document provides guidelines for selecting and using instructional materials. Teachers should understand the overall purpose of education and their teaching goals. When choosing materials, they should consider whether the materials accurately portray the ideas presented, contribute meaningful content, and are appropriate for the learners' ages and abilities. A teacher's guide can help ensure the optimal and effective use of instructional materials. Materials should help develop students' critical thinking and make the most of the time and resources required.

1. Using and Evaluating
Instructional Materials

2. “You should have
a good idea of
your destination,
both in the over
all purposes of
education and in
the everyday work
of your teaching.
If you don not
know where you
are going, you
cannot properly
choose a way to
get there.”

3. What guidelines should be
considered in the selection
and use of instructional
materials?

4. Field Trip by Charlie Brown and
Linus

7. SELECTION
Do the materials give a true picture of
the ideas they present?
 Ask when the material was produced.
Do the materials contribute meaningful
content to the topic under study?
 Achieve the instructional objective.
Is the materials appropriate for the
age, intelligence and experience of the
learners?

8.  If the physical condition of material
satisfactory?
 Example: Mount Photographs properly.
 Is there a teachers guide to provide a
briefing for effective use?
 …increase chances that are instructional materials
will be used to the maximum and optimum.
 Can the material in question help to make
students better thinkers and develop
their critical faculties?
 … with the exposure to mass media, it is highly
important that we maintain and strengthen
rational powers.
 Is the material worth the time, expense
and effort involved?
 …example: field trip… virtual or not?

9. Proper Use of Materials

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Jane H. Basto
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