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Focus Question:
What guidelines should be considered in the selection and use of instructional materials?
Selection of Materials
• Do the materials give a true picture of the ideas present? To avoid misconceptions, it is always good to ask when the material was produced.
• Do the materials contribute meaningful content to the topic under study? Does the material help you achieve the instructional objective?
• Is the physical condition
of the material satisfactory?
• Is there a teacher’s guide
to provide a briefing for effective use?
Can the materials in question help to make students better thinkers and develop their critical faculties?
• Is the material worth the time, expense
and effort involved?
• Set class expectations and learning goals
•Guide questions
•Motivate them and keep them interested and engaged
• Were you able to use the material to achieve the goal?
• The material is not the end itself, it is means to an end.
• Follow up to find out if the objective is attained or not.
Sum up
• The need for guidance
• The materials that we select must:
- give a true picture of the ideas they present
-contribute to the attainment of the learning objective
- be appropriate to the age, intelligence and experience of the learners
- Be good and satisfactory condition
- Provide for a teacher’s guide
- Help develop the critical and creative thinking powers of students
- Be worth the time, expense and effort involved
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