Um Alkhair Primary School

Mrs.LAtifah

Teaching aids!?

Teaching aids are helpful tools for teaching in a classroom or with individual learners.

Teachers can use them 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.

Steps to use teaching aids

Follow these steps to use teaching aids:

• Find or make suitable teaching aids.

• Experiment and practice with them so that you know how to use them.

• Test them and revise them if necessary.

• Remember to use them whenever they are appropriate.

Using 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.

• relieve anxiety, fears, or boredom, since many teaching aids are like games

Visual aids• Visual aids are visual representations which

support presentations in the form of text, cartoons, graphs, illustrations, photographs.

• These can be OHP transparencies, handouts, flipcharts, posters, objects etc. They help to break up the monotony, providing a visual stimulant to reinforce what the learners are hearing.

Visual aids

• The three main techniques for this use projection onto a large screen that everyone in the class can see.

• The oldest is using a photographic slide projector.

Visual aids

• The more modern and flexible overhead projector enables presenters to design their own text as well as pictorial illustrations.

• The most high-tech version is the use of a data projector, a computer and presentation software such as Microsoft PowerPoint.

Teaching aids

• Computers and other equipment such as video and audio cassettes can also be used as teaching aids.

Teaching aids

• There are many different ways in which a trainer can make the learning experience more interesting and memorable for learners.

One technique is to use teaching aids

• These are things used in the classroom to aid teaching and training. They fall into two main categories: visual aids such as overheads; and interactive tools such as a video programme or resource pack.

Some kinds of teaching aids:

• Photographic slides• Overheads• Presentation software• Objects, pictures or documentation which are

handed around the class but which do not constitute a handout

• Resource packs and handbooks• Videos, DVDs and audio tapes• Role-playing

Other teaching aids

• There are many different types of teaching aids and it is possible that you will invent a few unique kinds of your own.

Remember!!

• It is good to bear in mind that too much material and too many different themes can serve to confuse the class. It is best to stick to a few techniques and, perhaps, follow one theme, example or case study.

Teaching aidsTeaching 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.relieve anxiety, fears, or boredom, since many teaching aids are like games

Some kinds of teaching aids: Photographic slides

• Overheads

• Presentation software

• Objects, pictures or documentation which are handed around the class but which do not constitute a handout

• Resource packs and handbooks

• Videos, DVDs and audio tapes

• Role-playing

Remember !•It is good to bear in mind that too much material and too many different themes can serve to confuse the class. •It is best to stick to a few techniques and, perhaps, follow one theme, example or case study.

Mrs. Latifah

Teaching aids

• Teaching aids are helpful tools for teaching in a classroom or with individual learners.

• Teachers can use them 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.

Ministry of Education

Alfarwania Education Area

Um-Alkhair Primary School

Mrs. Latifah

Follow these steps to use teaching aids:• Find or make suitable teaching aids. • Experiment and practice with them so that you know how to

use them. • Test them and revise them if necessary. • Remember to use them whenever they are appropriate.

Mrs. Latifah