Teaching aids in

classroom
 LEARNING TARGETS
✘ Identify the traditional and modern
teaching aids

✘ Explain the use of traditional and modern

teaching aids

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 What is teaching aids?
 Teaching aids as tools which the teachers or tutors or whoever
is involved in the field of teaching to help the learners in a way
that can make them easily understand and comprehend what is
taught to them
 The user friendly and interactive teaching aids help to remove
the anxiety, fear, boredom or any other complex feeling which
the students may develop while learning their subjects of study.

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TRADITIONAL TEACHING
AIDS

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 1. Blackboards and chalks

 Blackboard is one of the old

and most used teaching aids
in the schools along with the
text books.
 The blackboard has been the
most handy and useful tool
of a teacher in the
classroom.

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 2. Text books

 The teacher uses the text

book to read and explain to
the students everything
contained in the text book
lessons.

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 3. 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.
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 4. Maps, Atlases and
globes
 The lessons in geography
becomes realistic when the
teachers use wall maps, atlases
and globes
 Teaching of geography in the
classrooms will be meaningless
without the use of these
teaching aids.

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 5. 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.

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 6. Scientific apparatus, materials and
models used in classrooms
 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.
 Clay models are very
prominently seen in the schools.

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 7. Crossword puzzles, quizzes

 Crossword puzzles and other

quizzes held in the school from
time to time also serve as a sort
of teaching aid
 Learning games which the
students play in the classrooms
are also one of the teaching
aids.

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 8. Dramatization and plays

 Dramatization and one act

plays enacted in the classrooms
based on the subjects of study
also serve as important
teaching aids.

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 9. 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.
 Children in lower classes are
also given some objects like
marbles and beads to learn
numbers.

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MODERN TEACHING
AIDS

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 1. Computer as a tool in modern teaching

 Computers have become of the most

important learning aids of the modern
times.
 The computers make use of multimedia
programme which include attractive
colours, clear graphics, wonderful sounds
 The computers are only a tool in the
hands of a teacher to make the teacher's
job easy and fast and make the teacher
more efficient

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 PowerPoint slides and games in modern
2.
classrooms
 Any person with a basic knowledge of
PowerPoint can learn to make slides and
games on the relevant subjects of
teaching with a very little training.
 The entire lessons of the students can be
incorporated in PowerPoint slides and
then can be taught to them in the
classrooms by interpolating sounds and
animations in the text lessons making the
lessons very interesting to the learners.

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 Online dictionaries, encyclopedias, picture
3.
dictionaries, talking dictionaries, online
tests
 The internet offers a multitude of
opportunities through thousands of
websites to the young learners. There are
free online dictionaries, free online
encyclopedias, picture and talking
dictionaries.
 Many websites offer online tests for
practice to the students. There are a lot
of learning videos available on several
websites.

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 4. Educational CDs and DVDs, Televisions

 These days thousands of CDs and DVDs

with educative content are available in
the market at very cheap rates.
 Educational content is also available
nowadays on televisions which is relayed
to home by Direct to Home (DTS) services

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 5. Interactive electronic white board as a
tool in modern teaching
 These are very costly equipment and
require a lot of investment and can be
afforded by only by schools who charge a
very high rate of fees from the student
 The electronic white board has many user
friendly offering a lot of interaction to its
user. It is a colourful tool in the hands of
the teachers.

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In the future, do you think
that the modern teaching
aids will replace the
teachers?

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 thanks!
Any questions?

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