Pictorial Media

What is
Pictorial Media?
 “Pictorial Media” in Education means any program,
objects, and etc. that uses the iconic language to transmit its
message and which is useful in the classroom.
Guides to Teaching with
Pictures
1. Pictures must be clearly seen by everyone.

2. Students/pupils must be given a chance to

point out what they think are the important
aspect of the picture.

3. The teacher must supplement pupil’s

comment to make sure that nothing has been
omitted.

4. Teacher and pupils should discuss

together what they find in the picture.
5. The picture in class should lead to the
accumulation of related pictures in the
textbooks.

6. If the picture used in the class stirs the

pupils to attempt at illustrating their own, it is
good evidence that a sound has been made
of them.

7. Pictures ought to supply incentives for the

use of auxiliary aids, like motion pictures,
filmstrips and others.

8. Pictures ought to promote supplementary

reading.
Flat Pictures (Still Pictures)

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There are several functions of still pictures in
the teaching-learning process:

• Picture can transform abstract ideas into

more realistic forms.
• They can bring students closed to the very
point visual context with reality itself.
• It can change the size of an object too
small or too large to visually understood in
its actual dimensions.
• It can save the teacher’s time and energy.
• Picture can assist the prevention and
correction of misconceptions.
• Pictures are very important in helping
students to retell experience or
understand something since they can
represent people, place, etc.
 Reading Pictures
A picture can read in four levels as follows:

1. Enumerate Level
2. Descriptive Level
3. Interpretative Level
4. Integrative Level
Photographs
- Photographs are also still pictures, which can be mounted
or unmounted, photographic reproductions taken from
magazines, newspapers or books.

- They appear in black and white or in full of color and they

can be filed by subjects or displayed in the bulletin boards.

- In the choice of photographs, teachers should choose

those that suggest motion or candid shots, as they are more
interesting and like-like.
 There are different uses of
Photographs:
1. To illustrates concepts and to show examples of what you
are taking about during a lecture when you can’t visit the real
thing.

2. To inspire discussion of a topic, looking at multiple aspects

and contexts.

3. To enforce and extend language and common terms of the

object being discussed, using subjects-specific terminology.
4. To stimulate students writing a story/poem about that image
enhancing creative and language skills.

5. To encourage team work and fosters collaboration and the

sharing of learning experience.

6. To encourage critical thinking skills.

7. To illustrate case studies.

8. To enhance visual communication skills.

9. To help identity emotions and mood.

3. Illustrations
- illustration are non-photographic
reconstruction or representations of reality, etched
or drawn by an illustrator, the teacher or the
students/learners themselves.
 Instructional Roles of using
Illustrations in the classroom

• Attention

• Retention

• Understanding

• Context
 Purposes for which flat pictures, photographs
and illustrations can be used for teaching:

1.To concretize words and symbols.

2. To lend meaning to what one reads.

3. To introduce or motivate

4. To correct misconceptions

5. To summarize a unit

6. To arouse emotions.
Flashcards
- Flashcards are valuable materials for drill activities.
Drills are very important means of fixing the skills and
automatizing the responses of pupils/students.

- Flashcards comes in the form of word cards, phrase

cards, sentence cards, mathematical combination cards
and picture cards.
 The following are the considerations of using
Flashcards:

1.The flashcards must be bold and big enough to seen by

everybody.
2. Flash the cards in a fast or snappy manner to develop fast
thinking response . This will enable the pupils to automotive
response.
3. Flash the cards from back to front. Write the answer at the
back of the each flashcards so that as you flash you can see the
answer and thus you will be able to check if the response of the
pupil is correct or not.
4. Hold the flashcards firmly at your chest level.