Test: Teaching Aids - CUET Humanities MCQ

While teaching students to save time and energy, a teacher must exploit various teaching aids. Teaching aids help in teaching faster and more effectively. They help as classroom components which create visual and interactive experiences for students and also avoid boredom.

A teaching aid cannot prevent behavioural problems. Proper psychological treatment is required to deal with behavioural problems. Teaching aid is a means used by teachers for facilitating learning among pupils. They reinforce learning and do not address any behavioural problems.

Age of learner is proportional to the cognitive ability of the learner, thus teaching aids should be selected on the basis of the age. Use of any kind of teaching aid can only be helpful in serving the purpose, if it runs parallel to the cognitive ability of the learner.
The use of teaching aids facilitates the objective of teaching by assisting teachers in differentiating instruction. Hence, they must be chosen keeping in view what the teacher intends to teach the students.
The teaching aids also must be carefully chosen to match the intellectual level of the students. In case of students with intellectual disabilities, different kind of teaching aids are to be used, instead of those used for normal intellectual abilities.

Mrs. Subramaniam has taken students out in the garden as she wanted to associate a poem which celebrates natural beauty by making students witness nature's beauty personally. This personal interaction with the nature can be used as a teaching aid which also generates interest of the students in the topic as it provides relief to the students from boredom of classroom teaching alone. So all the statements are correct.

Primary level students learn more by observing pictures and specimens. Thus, they are most effective in teaching primary level students. Pictures and specimens are important visual tools which facilitate learning.

All the statements are correct. Black board is a primary teaching aid in a classroom. It makes the subject interesting for pupils. It also simplifies the tough topics and keeps the pace of the lecture moderate as it encourages writing while talking and hence making teaching effective.

Teaching aids are helpful for teachers as well as for pupils. The use of such techniques encourages teacher; it makes teaching easier and effective, and teachers invest more in their lessons. It also generates interest of students in the topic; hence they pay more attention. Also such techniques can be used as a supplement for verbal and visual instructions. So all the statements are correct.

Mr. Rathore uses a lot of audio-visual aids while teaching. The main reason for doing so is to take care of the requirements of all the children. Audio-visual aids make the learning permanent. They stimulate both aural and visual senses of children. Some children understand better on observation i.e. visual, whereas other students understand better on aural stimulation. Thus, requirements of all the students are taken care of.

Mrs. Shalini is using a black board. A black board is a visual aid, thus Mrs.Shalini is using a visual aid. Visual aids, like the black board, are important teaching aids which can facilitate learning. The black board is the most basic and important visual aid for a classroom. Visual aids are visual communication of ideas and apart from black boards, other visual aids include PPTs, flip charts etc.

Tape recorder can be used as a teaching aid by primary class teachers to teach the sounds of birds and animals to the students, make them learn rhymes, or make them hear important historical speeches.

Best speech habits are developed in language labs. Thus, to develop good speech habits in the learners, he should exploit language labs. Language labs involve students in language learning exercises more actively and also let them participate more as compared to a traditional classroom setting.

All the three sentences are correct. Teaching aids, when used moderately, enhance teaching efficiency. Use of teaching aids fosters motivation and they also emphasise learning by doing. Teaching aids are a means of enhancing learning without boredom and keeping the students engaged. So, they are a very important teaching tool.

Flannel boards can be used to foster creativity and imagination power of the students. These boards can be used to display creativity of the students. They also provide a better opportunity to develop lessons.

A good text book does not have flowery language. It has a plain and simple language, which the students can easily understand. Flowery language cannot be understood by everyone easily and because text books are common for both intelligent and weak students, it is important for a text book to have simple language.

TFTF is correct. Teaching aid should be in accordance to the chapter to be focused on. Also a good classroom does not use maximum number of teaching aids, but optimum number of teaching aids i.e. as per the requirement of the lesson. Using teaching aids should be as per the environment and situation at the teaching place and also should not deviate mind of the student to an imaginary world, but make them more focused.