traditional teaching aids
Blackboards and chalks
• Blackboard is one of the very old and most used teaching aids in the schools along with the text books. Recently blackboards have been changed to green boards, but the basic function of the board remains the same by whatever colour one may name it. Even the material used for making the blackboards is changed from the ordinary wood to the most sophisticated plastic, fibre and glass materials of today. In some classrooms, the blackboards are permanently made of cement and mortar. But the functions of all these are the same. The blackboard has been the most handy and useful tool of a teacher in the classroom. The teacher has to take a white chalk to describe the things on the blackboard or for writing the notes of lesson on it for the children to copy. Coloured pieces of chalk are also used to emphasize upon the important parts of the lesson. While making selection of teachers, the selectors expect from the probable teachers to make maximum use of the blackboard which they call blackboard work or B/B work.
Text books
• The prescribed texts books of studies for particular classes in a school have been the other very useful tool in the hands of the teacher for centuries whereby a teacher uses the text book to read and explain to the students everything contained in the text book lessons. The teacher asks the students to mark or underline important ideas appearing in the lessons and the difficult words or the concepts which the students may fail to grasp easily. While using the textbook, sometimes the teachers move away from the subject to tell the students anecdotes, stories or personal experiences concerned with the topic in the textbook that is being taught to the students.
Charts, pictures and posters
• For easy understanding of the lessons, the teachers use teaching aids like the charts, pictures and posters which they display in the walls of the classrooms.
• These not only decorate the walls of the classrooms but also are important tool for teaching in the classrooms.
• Colourful charts in the classrooms attract the students to get attracted to the classrooms.
Maps, Atlases and globes
• The lessons in geography becomes realistic when the teachers use wall maps, atlases and globes to make the student understand and know various geographical concepts and to know the locations of various places in the world.
• Teaching of geography in the classrooms will be meaningless without the use of these teaching aids.
• Visit to historical places near the school is live experience for the children to learn and these also serve as natural teaching aids.
Flashcards, flip cards and worksheets
• Flash cards and flip cards are another useful teaching aid used especially in small classes to teach vocabulary and important concepts.
• Worksheets are an important aid to the students to work out the exercises given in these worksheets.
Scientific apparatus, materials and models used in classrooms and science labs
• No science lesson can said to be complete unless the children are shown the practical examples by conducting the science experiments in the lab or class.
• Models of parts of the human body and many other models depicting the replica of the things taught in the class are very important teaching aids.
• Clay models are very prominently seen in the schools.
• Visit to science museums, planetariums; zoological parks and places of scientific importance will serve as very good teaching aids to the students.
• Leaves, twigs, flowers, seeds etc of plants when shown to the children either from the school garden or a nearby park will add to the botanical knowledge of the students and are living teaching aids from the beginning.
Crossword puzzles, quizzes and story telling etc.
• Crossword puzzles and other quizzes held in the school from time to time also serve as a sort of teaching aids.
• Learning games which the students play in the classrooms are also one of the teaching aids.
• Children may be asked to write stories from the pictures shown to them. They may also be given incomplete stories to complete.
Dramatization and plays
• Dramatization and one act plays enacted in the classrooms based on the subjects of study also serve as important teaching aids.
Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias and other reference books
• Dictionaries, encyclopaedias and other books of reference always come to the help of the teachers and the students when ever they want to find out the meaning of any word or an idea. Books containing facts of knowledge and important data books help the teachers and students to find them easily in these books.
Toys and other objects used as methods of teaching
• Toys are usually used in small classes for teaching the children the names of various fruits, vegetables, animals, birds, insects etc. Toy models of these objects are easily available in the market.
• Children in lower classes are also given some objects like marbles and beads to learn numbers.
• Toy clocks and watches are used in schools to teach children the concept of time.
Use abacus as a teaching aid
• The use of abacus in learning numbers and small mathematical operations has been in use since times immemorial.
Mathematics including geometry kits
• The geometry box containing compasses, protectors, ruler scales etc. is very important set of aids in the hands of students and teachers to learn geometrical concepts. The teachers will have the same instruments made in larges sizes to explain the sums in geometry to the students using chalk in stead of pencils which the students use.
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• Blackboard is one of the very old and most used teaching aids in the schools along with the text books. Recently blackboards have been changed to green boards, but the basic function of the board remains the same by whatever colour one may name it. Even the material used for making the blackboards is changed from the ordinary wood to the most sophisticated plastic, fibre and glass materials of today. In some classrooms, the blackboards are permanently made of cement and mortar. But the functions of all these are the same. The blackboard has been the most handy and useful tool of a teacher in the classroom. The teacher has to take a white chalk to describe the things on the blackboard or for writing the notes of lesson on it for the children to copy. Coloured pieces of chalk are also used to emphasize upon the important parts of the lesson. While making selection of teachers, the selectors expect from the probable teachers to make maximum use of the blackboard which they call blackboard work or B/B work.
Text books
• The prescribed texts books of studies for particular classes in a school have been the other very useful tool in the hands of the teacher for centuries whereby a teacher uses the text book to read and explain to the students everything contained in the text book lessons. The teacher asks the students to mark or underline important ideas appearing in the lessons and the difficult words or the concepts which the students may fail to grasp easily. While using the textbook, sometimes the teachers move away from the subject to tell the students anecdotes, stories or personal experiences concerned with the topic in the textbook that is being taught to the students.
Charts, pictures and posters
• For easy understanding of the lessons, the teachers use teaching aids like the charts, pictures and posters which they display in the walls of the classrooms.
• These not only decorate the walls of the classrooms but also are important tool for teaching in the classrooms.
• Colourful charts in the classrooms attract the students to get attracted to the classrooms.
Maps, Atlases and globes
• The lessons in geography becomes realistic when the teachers use wall maps, atlases and globes to make the student understand and know various geographical concepts and to know the locations of various places in the world.
• Teaching of geography in the classrooms will be meaningless without the use of these teaching aids.
• Visit to historical places near the school is live experience for the children to learn and these also serve as natural teaching aids.
Flashcards, flip cards and worksheets
• Flash cards and flip cards are another useful teaching aid used especially in small classes to teach vocabulary and important concepts.
• Worksheets are an important aid to the students to work out the exercises given in these worksheets.
Scientific apparatus, materials and models used in classrooms and science labs
• No science lesson can said to be complete unless the children are shown the practical examples by conducting the science experiments in the lab or class.
• Models of parts of the human body and many other models depicting the replica of the things taught in the class are very important teaching aids.
• Clay models are very prominently seen in the schools.
• Visit to science museums, planetariums; zoological parks and places of scientific importance will serve as very good teaching aids to the students.
• Leaves, twigs, flowers, seeds etc of plants when shown to the children either from the school garden or a nearby park will add to the botanical knowledge of the students and are living teaching aids from the beginning.
Crossword puzzles, quizzes and story telling etc.
• Crossword puzzles and other quizzes held in the school from time to time also serve as a sort of teaching aids.
• Learning games which the students play in the classrooms are also one of the teaching aids.
• Children may be asked to write stories from the pictures shown to them. They may also be given incomplete stories to complete.
Dramatization and plays
• Dramatization and one act plays enacted in the classrooms based on the subjects of study also serve as important teaching aids.
Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias and other reference books
• Dictionaries, encyclopaedias and other books of reference always come to the help of the teachers and the students when ever they want to find out the meaning of any word or an idea. Books containing facts of knowledge and important data books help the teachers and students to find them easily in these books.
Toys and other objects used as methods of teaching
• Toys are usually used in small classes for teaching the children the names of various fruits, vegetables, animals, birds, insects etc. Toy models of these objects are easily available in the market.
• Children in lower classes are also given some objects like marbles and beads to learn numbers.
• Toy clocks and watches are used in schools to teach children the concept of time.
Use abacus as a teaching aid
• The use of abacus in learning numbers and small mathematical operations has been in use since times immemorial.
Mathematics including geometry kits
• The geometry box containing compasses, protectors, ruler scales etc. is very important set of aids in the hands of students and teachers to learn geometrical concepts. The teachers will have the same instruments made in larges sizes to explain the sums in geometry to the students using chalk in stead of pencils which the students use.
Source: http://www.indiastudychannel.com/resources/146408-Teaching-aids-in-classrooms-both-the-traditional-and-the-modern.aspx