Teaching Tools: Discover all about their definition, benefits and kinds.

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Remember the following:

We remember 20% of what we hear.

We remember 30% of what we see.

We remember 50 % of what we see and hear .

We remember 90 % of what we say and do.

We remember 100% of what we pass on to others.

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When I hear, I forget.

When I see, I remember.

When I do, I understand.

When I learn, I evaluate.

When I evaluate, I imagine, create and innovate.

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Teaching Tools

Learning is more powerful and dynamic with tools that are already right in front of you – and it’s up to educators to impress this on students in the classroom. When you bring real things and authentic daily- life situations into the classroom, listening becomes discovering, interest becomes wonder, and passive learning becomes active exploration. Lessons come to life with touch, motion, and sound. Teacher resources, insights from fellow educators, and personalized support help you teach every subject, from reading to coding, in ways that kids really get. All of which makes those magical, a-ha moments happen much more often. For everyone. The most powerful tools for learning are the ones students love to use.

Teaching Tools include:

1-Teaching Aids.

They include:

(Cards, Charts, grids, Pictures, Drawing, photos, magazines, worksheets, mindmapping. Technology, Video, digital material, data show, CDs, Electronic prohrama, Dictionary, Websites,The comuter, the internet, E-Book, Intelligent board, Blackboard, Realia, actual fields, Real situations, Online Dictionaries, Graffic Organizers, virtual tours of their latest exhibits,The real daily environmental things......)

2-Teaching resources / Material :

They include:

A-The actual daily- life sites and environmental realia.

B-Concrete teaching Material.e,g.(Book, classroom supplies for teachers, Realia, CD, Vedio tape, tablet, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV ..)

C-Theoritical teaching material. e.g.(Workshops, Training units)

3-Online Teacher's Tools / Resources:

1-Google DOC's.

8-Voice of America Learning English.

9-Grammarly.

10-TED Talks.

11-YouGlish.

12-Corpus of Contemporary American English.

13-Edmodo

14-Socrative

15- LessonCast

16-Glogster EDU

17-SchoolTube:

18-Storybird:

19-Free Rice 2.0

20-Flashcard Machine

21-Bitstrips for Schools

22-Kidblog

23-DK Instant Expert

24-TED-ED

25-Videonot es

4-Electronic teaching and learning programs:

( Word program, Excel program, Power-point program, Access program, MS picture management program, Movie-maker program, Free-mind program, Lingoes program, Celestia program, Yanka program, Anki program, Jing program, Hot potatoes program, MS Mathematics program, the Sage program, Chemistry crocodile program, Physics Crocodile program and a lot of other electronic programs. Electronic teaching enables the teacher to do an electronic lesson plan and give an electronic lesson presentation.)

5-Teaching methods.

They include:

(Active learning method, Projects, Inquiry-based teaching method, discovery method, Acting the scenes, Pointing, Role-playing, Elicitation, CLT Method, Internet-based teaching method, Brainstorming method, Electronic programs teaching, Classroom Network, observation, imitation, repetition, Music, Songs, Games, Storytelling, Puzzles, Riddles, Story theatre, Solving problems, Playing roles, Changing roles,pair woek, Dialoguing, Group work, Co-Curriculum activities, Involvement, Engagement, Debating, Interviewing, Practical learning, analysis, Practice and research, Synthesis, Evaluation, Imagination.......)

6-Teaching Skills:

They include:

A-Language Skills (Listening-Speaking-Reading-Writing).

B-Teacher's Skills (Guiding, interviewing, Dialoguing, Observation)

C-Learner's Skills (Interactivity, Participation, Pair work, peer work, acting, elicitation,Group work, Dialoguing, Practice, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation, imagination, Exploration and Dioscovery)

7-Teaching Activities.

They include:

A-Co-curriculum activities. (Inside classroom)

B-Extra-curriculum Activities. (Inside school)

C-Extra-curriculum Activities. (Outside school)

8-Assessment and Evaluation

Assessment includes:

1-Pre-assessment:

It is a measurement of the learning received during the class as part of comparing what the student knew before in a pre-test and after the class experience in a post test.

2-During assessment:

1-It is usually done to gauge where the learner is.

2-It is helpful to pinpoint if the learner is progressing or having a

misconception that needs to be cleared up .

3-It is either formative or summative.

4-It is graded or ungraded.

3-Post Assessment:

1-It is used to determine if the learner has met the learning outcomes.

2-It is either formative or summative.

3-It is graded.

Evaluation:

Evaluation is a strategy used to collect information based on evidence to modify the system of learning. Evaluation includes repeated assessment. It is done by the teacher, senior teacher and the supervisor at the end of the term or the whole year. It includes all the classroom components, course content, learners' activities and the teacher's strategy. This information is graded. There are free awards, recognition awards and certificates to print, with matching incentives sheets.

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1-Teaching Aids

Definition:

A teaching aid is a tool used by the teacher as a facilitator to the process of teaching and learning inside the classroom. It is one of the means by which we, as teachers bring life into the theoretical texts by bringing environment inside the classroom indirectly. Also, it is a means of personification to the concrete texts in the students' books. The final purpose remains as a means of relating teaching with the environment that students live in and communicate with.

A teaching aid is a means of bringing environment into class to give life to theoretical learning. It is a means to involve learners physically, mentally, emotionally and environmentally. A teaching aid can involve the learners physically through using his senses and acting, mentally through using his mind and thinking, emotionally through his excitement and environmentally through looking at pictures that express the daily life we live. Have you wondered what a teacher is? He is an audio-visual aid of teaching.

Kinds of Aids:

. Visual Aids
. Audio Aids
. Audio - Visual Aids

1) Visual Aids
The aids which use sense of vision are called Visual aids.

For example :- actual objects, models, pictures, charts, maps, flash cards, flannel board, bulletin board, chalkboard, overhead projector, slides etc.

2) Audio Aids
The aids that involve the sense of hearing are called Audio aids.

For example :- radio, tape recorder, gramophone etc.

3) Audio - Visual Aids
The aids which involve the sense of vision as well as hearing are called Audio- Visual aids.

For example :- television, film projector, film strips etc.

Importance :

1) Motivation
Teaching aids motivate the students so that they can learn better.

2) Clarification
Through teaching aids , the teacher clarify the subject matter more easily.

3) Discouragement of Cramming
Teaching aids can facilitate the proper understanding to the students which discourage the act of cramming.

4) Increase the Vocabulary
Teaching aids helps to increase the vocabulary of the students more effectively.

5) Saves Time and Money

Teaching through using aids takes a shorter time than traditional teaching that depends on lecturing and more repetition from the side of the teacher. There will be no need to re-explain the lesson once more, as the learners have learnt the content through using all their senses and emotion. Here, money is saved.

6) Classroom Live and active
Teaching aids make the classroom live and active.

7) Avoids Dullnes

Teaching aids make the lesson interesting and the learners more interested. Learners see the set-book text pictures and photographes speaking and acting.

8) Direct Experience
Teaching aids provide direct experience of great experts to the learners. Teaching aids assist students in learning. These aids consist of video, audio and hands-on tools to help involve the students and enhance the learning experience.Teachers begin using visual, audio and hands-on aids as early as preschool. Teaching aids can be as basic as a blackboard or whiteboard. Audio and visual equipment, such as DVD players and video projectors, are commonly used as tools for learning with a very effective output.

1-Traditional Teaching Aids:

The only method of teaching here, is the wooden blackboard and the chalk to write with. Perhaps, the teacher uses flash cards and wall sheets in very few lessons and the purpose is for show not for knowledge or teaching. The role of technology is restricted to enabling the learners to visit the lonely school computer laboratory, once a month and that is also for show. There is no pr-planned program. The teacher himself is sometimes traditional. I mean that he is reluctant to the advanced method of education. He has been and is still used to that traditional method of education in spite of all the several efforts made by the supervisors to develop him, but in vain. He sees his method the best and himself the greatest in a false proud way. Nothing else can be mentioned in using technology, here.

Examples:

Here are some examples of teaching aids:

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2-) Active Teaching Aids:

There is no doubt that teaching aids plays a remarkable role in teaching. You can see the teacher using flash cards, drawings, wall sheets, real things, drawn or painted maps, electronic maps, tables, schedules, lists, designs and paintings. The teacher uses technology which is represented in using the cassette, computer, internet,video set, data show, overhead projector, slides, power point program, excel program, electronic teaching and learning programs like Jing, Celestia,the Sage,Lingoes, movie-maker, Hot potatoes programs and all the sets that attract the learner to learn and acquire real knowledge. Visit the page of " Technology in teaching" in this site. Notice that the learner uses all his 5 senses in learning.

There is a laptop or a classmate for each learner to use in learning inside the class. Musical instruments are found inside the classroom. Electronic maps are there to click on in order to find the location, see the sun, feel the temperature degree, feel the cold regions, read the labels, hear the sounds of the storms and feel the falling rain in places all over the world.

As an example of practical education, learners can see all the stages of a volcano to study this phenomenon. I saw that practically there in UK schools. There is a digital camera to photograph the scientific interviews and meetings of learners inside the class.

Teaching tools are several and available to use. All the teaching tools of science and mathematics are found inside the class. Learners do experiments inside the class. There is a real library to visit and consult its reference books to do researches. There are names for classes. This is the science room number 1 and this a mathematics room number 2 and so on..

In active learning, both the teacher and the learners can use electronic learning programs like The Sage program, The Hot Potatoes program, The lingoes program, The Celestia program, Jing program, Free-Mid map program , Chemistry crocodile program and the electronic lesson plan for the teacher.

Kinds of active teaching aids:

. Visual Aids
. Audio Aids
. Audio - Visual Aids

1) Visual Aids
The aids which use sense of vision are called Visual aids. For example :- actual objects, models, pictures, charts, maps, flash cards, flannel board, bulletin board, chalkboard, overhead projector, slides etc. Out of these black board and chalk are the commonest ones.

2) Audio Aids
The aids that involve the sense of hearing are called Audio aids. For example :- radio, tape recorder, gramophone etc.

3) Audio - Visual Aids
The aids which involve the sense of vision as well as hearing are called Audio- Visual aids. For example :- television, film projector, film strips etc.

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"2-Teaching Materials"

"Teaching materials" is a generic term used to describe the resources teachers use to deliver instruction. Teaching materials can support student learning and increase student success. Ideally, the teaching materials will be tailored to the content in which they're being used, to the students in whose class they are being used, and the teacher. Teaching materials come in many shapes and sizes, but they all have in common the ability to support student learning.

Examples

Teaching materials can refer to a number of teacher resources; however, the term usually refers to concrete examples, such as worksheets or manipulatives (learning tools or games that students can handle to help them gain and practice facility with new knowledge -- e.g. counting blocks). Teaching materials are different from teaching "resources," the latter including more theoretical and intangible elements, such as essays or support from other educators, or places to find teaching materials.

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3-Teaching Methods

The teaching methods are various and several.

Click below:

1-TheTeaching methods

2-Teaching Toolbox

3-Teacher's Toolbox.

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4-Teaching Skills

Click below:

1-Laguage Skills.

2-Teacher's Skills.