Teachers make use of Teaching Learning Material toa)Motivate studentsb...
Teaching-learning material (TLM) makes learning meaningful.
Learning becomes meaningful when a learner is able to:
- Understand the learning concept of knowledge.
- Connect or relate the new concept learned to the previously existing concept or knowledge.
TLMs are those exclusively prepared by the teachers to enhance their teaching strategies in order to get better outcomes by making learning meaningful.
TLMs make learning meaningful by:
- Providing clarity of concepts
- Integrating the concept throughout the learning process
- Involving the learner to engage and absorb in the concept
- Understanding the importance of learning
- Reinforcing positively
- Adhere to Bloom’s Taxonomy of learning
Important Points
Teaching materials/resources: Textual lesson plans, white or blackboards, flashcards, slideshows, PowerPoint presentations, videos, animations, games, quizzes, puzzles, worksheets, etc
In Primary Classes, simpler TLMs like manipulative in the form of beads, marbles, gummy bears, balls, wooden or plastic blocks or sticks, straws, pebbles or any other physical item that
- Grabs the children’s attention
- Creates an interesting learning environment
- Provides real-life experiences
- Creates a learner-centric inquiry-based learning process
- Engages the children in the learning process
- Helps the children to relate to or use common things and understand complex concepts like those in mathematics or science
- Enhances fine and gross motor development.
- Motivate students to engage and understand complex or abstract learning processes or concepts.
Hence, it becomes clear that teachers make use of Teaching Learning Material to make learning meaningful.