DAVID, KRIZZIA A.

BECED 3A

“Instructional materials are quite important for effective teaching of

conflict and conflict resolution”

Instructional materials are the content or information conveyed within a course. These
include the lectures, readings, textbooks, multimedia components, and other resources in a
course. These materials can be used in both face-to-face and online classrooms; however, some
must be modified or redesigned to be effective for the online environment. The best instructional
materials are aligned with all other elements in the course, including the learning objectives,
assessments, and activities.

These instructional materials bring life to learning by stimulating students to learn. The
use of instructional materials in the classroom has the potential to help the teacher explain new
concepts clearly, resulting in better student understanding of the concepts being taught.
However, they are not ends in themselves but they are means to an end. Instructional materials
are essential since they help the teacher and learners avoid overemphasis on recitation and rote
learning that can easily dominate a lesson. Resource materials allow learners to have practical
experiences which help them to develop skills and concepts and to work in a variety of ways.
Instructional materials are essential tools in learning every subject in the school curriculum. They
allow the students to interact with words, symbols and ideas in ways that develop their abilities
in reading, listening, solving, viewing, thinking, speaking, writing, using media and technology.
An instructional material is a device developed or acquired to assist or facilitate teachers in
transmitting, organized knowledge, skills and attitude to the learners within an instructional
situation. It is an indispensable tool in the teaching and learning process. Learners learned best if
teachers present materials for active learning. Studies has shown that inadequate use or lack of
instructional materials negates the objective of teaching. Moreover, it is also observed that
participation of learners and their performances in classroom is affected, if it does not totally
depend, on the use of instructional materials.

Instructional materials provide the core information that students will experience, learn,
and apply during a course. They hold the power to either engage or demotivate students. This is
especially true for online courses, which rely on a thoughtful and complete collection of
instructional materials that students will access, explore, absorb, and reference as they proceed in
a course. Therefore, such materials must be carefully planned, selected, organized, refined, and
used in a course for the maximum effect. The planning and selection of instructional materials
should take into consideration both the breadth and depth of content so that student learning is
optimized.