As students muddle through the school day, their heads often become so full of knowledge that they struggle to organize and retain the information. Teachers can aid students in their struggle by providing them with visual aids. The use of visual aids is beneficial to all students, as it allows the learner to review a visual representation of the information being taught. Erin Schreiner (2008) once said, “When you teach with visual aids, you make it easier for students to retain the information, as they are given a visual as well as an auditory reference point. By integrating visual aids into your classroom, you can increase the excitement of your lessons and your students’ overall comprehension of complex material.”
In the Philippine setting, it was indeed established as a common nature for teachers to have their markers slipped the surface of the well-bordered manila papers and asked the students to copy all to have their notes, copying while noting details for minutes up to hours yielding to a numb hand and a swelled ring finger. However, in our day, gratified by the diverse of time and existence of computers, it is just few clicks and types away. Most teachers are even more able now to go for the extra mile just to make learning more accessible for the students. They made their visual aids more accessible. It is in the form of a handout. By just preparing handouts to be photocopied by the students, teacher will need not to consider whether his students are able to have their lectures for they already have their own. In addition to, this will aid their study.
Yet with these benefits, some things are vague. It is if that handout has implicated something good with respect to the academic performance of the students. Is it useful enough to replace the use of cartolinas and manila papers as visual aids? Do times spend on minutes of typing worth the results? Do the results in the use of handout exceed the results in the use of manila papers and cartolinas as visual aids? Would providing handouts really facilitate student’s learning? With these questions, the researcher conducts a study that will seek to answer the above mentioned questions.
By: Florinda L. Bantog | Teacher II | Limay Elementary School | Limay, Bataan
