SELECTION
AND USE OF TEACHING AIDS
In this unit I acquired some knowledge
about teaching aids and their purposes in the classroom. Some of the aids are known as
classroom equipment and others which for me could be teachers´ resources.
Within the first category we have a board, an overhead projector, a CD player, a DVD player, a computer and/or a language laboratory. From all these items I would avoid teenager students to use computers, even though each of them owns one. Because they get distracted easily and usually they prefer to do other things like exploring in the net. However, there are others aids in the second category like realia, flashcards, puppets, charts and the teacher himself/herself. Those are absolutely controlled and sometimes created by the teacher depending on the lesson. In a real situation I had already worked with flashcards and sometimes realia so if I had the chance of working with children I would work with puppets. All the aids mentioned above have their purpose when teaching but I can say that their main purpose is to introduce input to our students in order to reach the class outcome.
To sum up, in order to include any aid in a lesson, the teacher must select and use it correctly regarding its purpose.
Within the first category we have a board, an overhead projector, a CD player, a DVD player, a computer and/or a language laboratory. From all these items I would avoid teenager students to use computers, even though each of them owns one. Because they get distracted easily and usually they prefer to do other things like exploring in the net. However, there are others aids in the second category like realia, flashcards, puppets, charts and the teacher himself/herself. Those are absolutely controlled and sometimes created by the teacher depending on the lesson. In a real situation I had already worked with flashcards and sometimes realia so if I had the chance of working with children I would work with puppets. All the aids mentioned above have their purpose when teaching but I can say that their main purpose is to introduce input to our students in order to reach the class outcome.
To sum up, in order to include any aid in a lesson, the teacher must select and use it correctly regarding its purpose.
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| Classroom equipment |
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| Teacher resources |
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