INSTRUCTIONAL FACILITIES OF TEACHING/ TEACHING AIDS FOR NTA NET PAPER 1 TEACHING APTITUDE || BY DIMPLE

Instructional Facilities

qInstructional facilities that assist an instructor in the teaching–learning process.

qThe teaching instructional facilities include audiovisual instructional facilities.

qThey help in better learning, retention and recall, interest, imagination and personal growth and development.

The Main Benefits Of Instructional Facilities

Instructional facilities are also known as Teaching Learning Materials

1. Motivation of learners

Capturing attention is the first step to any learning and teaching instructional facilities help in capturing the attention of learner in classroom. Teaching instructional facilities provide a variety of stimuli, which helps in making classroom teaching most effective.

2. Based on maxims of teaching

The use of teaching instructional facilities is not a haphazard exercise, but based on maxims of teaching.

3. Better retention of information

The more the number of sensory channels involved in interacting with teaching instructional facilities, the longer will be the retention of information. Therefore, the learning will be effective and will last long.

4. Better organization of classroom teaching

Teachers need to use visual or verbal teaching instructional facilities to present accurate data in sequentially organized manner.

Teaching instructional facilities helps in overcoming

shortcomings in verbal or visual communication.

5. Promotion of scientific temper

Teaching instructional facilities promotes scientific temper, which is one of the main goals of education.

6. Practical applications

Teaching instructional facilities show application of theoretical knowledge into practical applications.

7. Making learning fun

Learners enjoy novelty of handling new objects and learn new concepts through them.

8. Concept formation

Teaching instructional facilities facilitate the formation and attainment of concepts among children. Thus, children are able to understand them and not resort to rote learning.

9. To Facilitate Holistic Learning

Keeping in view that there are varied learning objectives in cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains. Therefore, varied learning experiences need to be provided, which can be done through teaching instructional facilities. They supplement classroom teaching. They cater to individual differences as well.