Chapter L. The system of teaching and teaching Aids

Visual Teaching Aids: Visual Teaching aids include posters, model, figure, chart, graph etc. It also includes graphics such as diagrams, cut-outs, globe, objects, cartoon, info-graphs, bulletin board, flannel board, picture, map and others.

Mechanical Teaching Aids: Mechanical teaching aids include an Audio teaching machine, tape recorder, radio, motion picture, Projector, epidiascope, filmstrips.

Audio-Visual Teaching Aids: This type of teaching aid includes video, Cassettes, Films, television, and others.

Visual Material Teaching Aids: Outline charts, organization charts, tabular charts, flow charts etc. are also used in visual Material Teaching aids.

1.2 Types of Teaching Aids Following are the different types of teaching aids:Teaching aids which include learning through visual representation is called visual aids. Visual aids are the kind of material that we can see with our eyes. It is the most important teaching aid that teachers always use in their teaching-learning process everyday like book, blackboard, chalk, duster, indicator, picture, map, graphs, charts, posters, bulletin boards, museums, projectors and also important visual aids.

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2.3 Outcomes

Teaching aids are an integral component in any classroom. The

many benefits of teaching aids include helping learners improve reading comprehension skills, illustrating or reinforcing a skill or concept, differentiating instruction and relieving anxiety or boredom by presenting information in a new and exciting way. Teaching aids also engage students’ other senses since there are no limits in what aids can be utilized when supplementing a lesson.

As students are reading less and less on their own, teachers are finding reading comprehension skills very low among today’s students. Teaching aids are helping teachers to close the gap and hone the reading comprehension skills of their students. Using magazine and newspaper articles, prints ads and even comic books are viable teaching aids that assist in helping students comprehends.