Test: Teaching Aptitude (Teaching Aids) - Software Development MCQ

Audio-visual aid refers to the learning equipment that introduces such complex concepts through audio and video, which can't be introduced by other teaching aids. 

Key Points

Documentary film is the non-fictional film that deals with real events and people. It is an audio-visual aid as it:

• maximizes learning with the help of the auditory and visual system.

• activates the sense of both hearing and vision to enrich learner's knowledge.
• LCD Projector, TV, computer, video, film projector, virtual classroom, etc are the other examples of audio-visual aids.

Hint

Hence, we conclude that the Documentary film is an audio-visual aid.

Audiovisual aids are those which make lessons interesting, simple, and understandable.

• It creates the interest of students in a classroom.
• It promotes self-learning and creativity in students.
• With the help of teaching aids, teachers make their teaching interesting as well as improve their teaching with the help of these aids.

Key PointsAudiovisual aids are those aids that are used to encourage teaching-learning in the classroom. Audio-Visual aids help the teacher because:

1. Audio-visual aids promote self-learning in the students.
2. It helps the teachers because they make the lesson effective and interesting because it enables the teachers to follow the maxims of teachings like known to unknown and concrete to abstract.
3. It helps to create the interest of the students.
4. The time and energy of teachers and students are saved and it helps to make the concepts more clear, more precise, and easy.
5. These aids are the best motivators. The students work with more interest and enthusiasm.
6. These aids are useful for teachers as the use of teaching aids makes the lesson interesting.
7. With the help of these aids students active in their mental and physical activity.
8. It develops a scientific attitude in the students.

Thus, it is concluded that audio-visual aids help the teacher because they make his lesson effective.

Additional Information

Teaching-learning process can be made more effective and efficient by using various teaching-learning tools.

Key Points

• Teaching-learning tools made learning an active process and these include LCD projectors, Interactive smart boards, animation movies, presentations, and many more.
• The Internet can be used in the teaching program to explore more resources as the internet act as a platform where all the information related to all the topics can be found.
• The Internet is basically a collection of information that can be accessed at any point to gain new knowledge and insights about a particular topic. Besides this internet can also be used to learn new skills 
• Advantages of internet-
  • Cost Effective
  • Enhances student-teacher interaction
  • Easy access to quality education
  • Updated and latest information
  • Efficient learning 

Thus we can conclude that the Internet provides excellent resources to explore.

Geoboard is a tool for exploring a variety of mathematical topics introduced in the elementary and middle grades. Learners stretch bands around the pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more. It consists of a wood board with evenly spaced rows of nails or a plastic board with protruding pegs around which string or rubber bands are wrapped.

Key Points

Geo-board helps students to :

• comprehend mathematical concepts effectively by utilizing concrete objects and experiencing real situations.
• test and experience theoretical knowledge and discover different mathematical properties of various geometrical objects.
• enhances the interest and motivation of learners to learn mathematics.
• provide a better learning experience that helps learners to relate geometrical concepts with their daily life activities and nature.
• promote ndividual learning while engaged with geo-boards as learners engage in an exploration of mathematical contents in their way.

​Hence the most appropriate reason for introducing Geo-board-based activities could be to provide concrete representations for many investigations into geometrical concepts.​

Teaching-learning materials (TLMs) are tools used by teachers to help learners learn concepts with ease and efficiency. TLMs have been in existence in our educational system since ancient times.

• The role of TLMs in the classroom is to make learning real, practical and fun for children. Teachers use TLMs to illustrate or reinforce a skill, fact or idea.
• TLMs also help in bringing novelty and freshness in classroom teaching as it relieves learners from anxiety, fear and boredom. Teaching-learning materials provide a range of learning experiences to learners from direct to indirect.

Key Points

Teachers should guide and facilitate students to construct simple TLMs themselves. Students should be divided into groups and each group be assigned the task of design and development of TLMs. As a teacher, you may adopt many strategies in motivating students.

In an activity aids, the learner directly involves through participation and direct experience. These type of teaching aids are really of great value as they put students in the role of an active constructor of knowledge. Following are some important activity teaching aids, listed below:-

• Field Trip
• Demonstration
• Experiments
• Dramatization

Thus, it is clear that an overhead projector is not an activity aids related to teaching-learning materials.
Additional Information

Overhead Projector (OHP) helps in displaying still visual material as a projection on a screen. It is a simple projector which is very easy to operate and therefore, popular among teacher. It is better than using a chalkboard as it helps teachers talk and show visuals simultaneously. As a teacher, you can observe the reaction of students and interact with them. It also helps in saving time as you can use these visuals/transparencies again and again. OHP does not require a darkened room and is easy to handle and transport from one classroom to another.

Teaching Aids is very necessary nowadays for effective teaching. Through teaching aids, the teacher clarifies the subject matter more easily.
Advantages of Teaching Aids: 

• Teaching aids make learning permanent.
• Teaching aids are helpful in attracting the desire and attention of the students.
• This makes teaching reinforced and effort practice accurate.
• It facilitates group and self-learning.
• Teaching aids provide good substitutes for the real objects as they make learning equally meaningful. 

Key Points

Types of teaching aids: 

1. Visual Aids: Charts, diagrams, graphs, etc. are effective visual aids that teachers use to convey concepts and lessons with more clarity and effectiveness.
2. Audio Aids: Using audio teaching aids will help that segment to a great extent. The effect of music on the brain has been proven. Hence, some teachers play music in the classroom to destress their students and increase their interest in the lessons.
3. Audio-Visual Aids: Videos and animations are used in the classroom to explain concepts better. With the development of technology, students have the opportunity to actually see how digestion takes place, understand the water cycle, can understand the motion of vehicles, everything can be explained everything in a much detailed and better manner.

Hence, we can conclude that the right answer to this question is All of the above.

Teaching aids are the devices by which the teacher helps the students to clarify, establish, and correlate accurate concepts, inspections, and appreciation through the utilization of more than one sensory channel.

Key Points Teaching aids are meaningful and they always stand to serve a useful purpose. Teaching aids are up to the mark and up to date in every respect. Teaching aids are simple, cheap, and may be improvised. Their purpose may be informative but it is not just entertainment.

Types of teaching aids:

Thus, it is concluded that the teaching aid is not uniform dress.

Key Points

The successful integration of resources in the teaching-learning process will depend on the effective planning of the teacher. Role of teacher in the integration of resources:

• Teacher should do the lesson planning first and fix the place for certain resource. In the absence of planning, the resources can’t be meaningful.
• Teacher should have expertise on the particular teaching-learning resources which s/he is going to use during teaching-learning activity. Teacher should remove the ambiguity from the resources.
• If teacher is using any online method as resource there should be filtration for few sites. Teacher should try to block access of inappropriate sites. Even s/he should also use such type of tools by which s/he can track individual usage.
• All learners have their own unique characteristics. So, to make learners enactive in the classroom, teachers should integrate/arrange resources as per the content and needs of learners.
• Before using the particular resource if it is necessary the documenting, editing should be done by the teacher. Manipulation should be done by the teacher. 

Hence, it is clear that 'To make learners active in the classroom, the teacher should integrate all type of resources in one particular class' is correct in the context of the question.

Realia refers to the use of objects and material from everyday life used as teaching aids.  

Key Points

• Realia are real-life objects that enable children to make connections to their own lives as they try to make sense of new concepts and ideas.
• Realia can make learning experience more memorable and it become easy to recall information.
• Realia will easily direct the students attention on the lesson. 
• Realia are real-life objects that enable children to make connections to their own lives as they try to make sense of new concepts and ideas.The use of realia with your students will not only be fun, but it will also provide a practical and interactive approach to learning. Teaching about the currency used by the Cholas by showing a coin of that time kept in a museum in the real time is an example of Realia Teaching. This is the creative way to teach students to make connections in the effective way.

​Hence, it can be concluded that teaching about the currency used by the Cholas by showing a coin of that time kept in a museum in the real time is an example of Realia Teaching.