Use of Teaching Aids in the Teaching-Learning Process

DTS Training

Day 3

What uses are there of a mobile phone??

What are teaching Aids?

-Devices that present units of knowledge through sound or visual stimuli or both, the aim being to help learning. -They help to concretize knowledge and help in making a learning experience real, living and vital. -They act as a supplement to knowledge in the text

Key Factors:•Supplements the Spoken Word• Makes learning real, vivid interesting and life like• Helps develop concepts, improve attitudes and appreciation• Makes learning permanent and compelling• Supplements the material in text

Involves utilization of more than one sensory channel, helps to clarify, establish and correlate accuracy, interpretations and concepts

Who Can Use Teaching Aids?

• Who can use talking as a tool of communication?!

• Teaching Aids are universal, multi-applicable and multi-user based

• Office procedures / tourist guide orientation / teacher education / conventional classrooms

• Basic Aids:

Chalk BoardWhite BoardBulletin BoardsField Trips

Types of Teaching Aids

• Printed Aids

PeriodicalsBooksNewspapers

Types of Teaching Aids

• Visual Aids:SlidesFilm StripsModelsSpecimensGraphs & ChartsPictorial materialsGlobes and MapsDiagramsTime LinesTables

Types of Teaching Aids

• Audio Aids:

Tape RecordingsPhonograph DiscsRadioMobile Phones

Types of Teaching Aids

• Audio-Visual Aids

Motion PicturesTelevision/VideoDramatization

Types of Teaching Aids

Applied Learning

• Group Activity:

Devise 1 teaching aid to explain

any concept in your area of work