Lesson 6

Using and Evaluating Materials

Focus Question:

What guidelines should be considered in the selection and use of instructional materials?

Activityon page 55

Analysis

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Abstraction

• Field trip

• The need

guidelines

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 material appropriate for the age, intelligence and experience of the learners?

• 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?

P – Prepare yourself

P – Prepare your student

P – Present the material

F – Follow up

Prepare yourself

Know your lesson objective

What do you expect from the class?

Why you have selected that material?

Plans how to proceed?

How will you evaluate them?

Prepare your

students

• Set class expectations and learning goals

•Guide questions

•Motivate them and keep them interested and engaged

Present the material

Running Out of Gas

Resulted from:

• Poor planning

• Rehearse and plan

• Try materials ahead of your class

• 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.

Application

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Learning Log

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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

- Prepare yourself

- Prepare your students

- Prepare your instructional material and does follow up

Making connection

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