Fifth Week: WARNING !!! Future Teachers, start collecting now !!!

Monday, 9th August 2010

  Collecting what??? Your Teaching Aids!!!

As a future primary school teachers, there are lots of preparation need to be done before we teach a lesson. Pupils at this age need something concrete that they can sense through their 5 senses in order to grab new concepts or lesson. So, due to that limitation, we have to be considerate to their needs. Providing colourful pictures, interesting audio recordings and realias are some of the teaching aids that can be used to enhance learning and motivate pupils to focus in classroom.

Now, let's look on the types of teaching aids. How many are there, actually??

1) Worksheets

 

 

2) Textbooks

3) Realia

Look at the pumpkin!!! It's big and it's exploitable. It can be a good teaching resource too!!

4) Multimedia

5) Presentation Tools

Look !!! It's fantastic how the kid is learning in the image above.

6) Administrative Tools 

(some examples are shown as images below)

kids' digital camera

      

These are the 6 major categories of teaching aids that we have. Obviously, there are more to be discovered inside each major category. So, with the presence of these aids, why having a traditional 'chalkboard' as the only teaching aid in your classroom?? Be creative!!! Use and explore new resources from the web. Downloading action songs to teach 'verb', for instance, costs you 'nothing'. It's just need a tablespoon of a teacher's patience to click and explore the invention. 

To shape and bend a tree, it has to be done when the tree is young and supple. A young child's values, attitudes and abilities can be shaped and bent under favourable conditions. Thus, it is good if teachers of primary schools take the roles of shaping students towards embracing a learning by conducting appealing lessons using multiple appropriate resources. They can handle the changes and evolution in education as they are like 'empty cups'

taking in as much information as the outside world  (including schools) can give them. 

So, give the best for something best that we expect from them later on. Give them the latest version of resources, only then we are allowing the entrance of technology in our teaching and learning process. The blend of technology and concrete things applied in teaching is like making the end product to be as ideal as possible.