Teaching aids, such as visual aids, presentation tools, flashcards, pointers, and computers, can provide a welcome break for students and pique their interest. They can also be used to teach specific topics, such as driving simulators for driver education classes.
Students can get bored sitting in a classroom for hours. Teaching aids can provide a welcome break for students who have been sitting for a while listening to a front-of-the-room lecture from the instructor. Educators can use various teaching aids in addition to textbooks to pique students’ interest and demonstrate how things work. Visual aids, such as whiteboards or chalkboards, charts, maps, flash cards, and calendars are commonly used. Presentation tools. such as bulletin boards, audio-visual equipment, and overhead projectors are frequently used alongside multimedia displays and computers.
Flash cards are an effective way to teach various subjects. These popular teaching aids are available for many fields, such as spelling, geography and arithmetic, and the teacher or parent can also create personalized flash cards geared towards a specific topic or child. Visual learners will receive the most benefit from using flash cards, but auditory learners will also benefit if the information presented on the cards is read aloud.
A pointer is a teaching aid used in many classrooms. It is used to denote items such as words written on a chalkboard or features on a map. The traditional pointer is a long thin wand. Laser pointers, which are used to project a beam of light onto the feature the instructor wants to highlight, are becoming more common. The lights in laser pointers come in different colors and some can even display various designs such as flowers, butterflies and animals.
Computers have become popular teaching tools, but overhead projectors still have a place in the classroom. A transparency is placed on the glass and information about the transparency is projected onto a screen. An instructor can write information directly to the transparency. The transparency can also be fed into a laser printer so that information can be transferred onto the transparency from a computer.
Some teaching aids are aimed at a specific topic. For example, driving simulators have been developed for use in driver education classes. The student sits in a module that has a steering wheel, accelerator pedal, and brake pedal, and watches a film from a driver’s point of view. You react to events occurring on the screen by pressing the accelerator or brake and turning the steering wheel. The driving simulator records all student actions for the teacher to later review with the student.
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