Instructional materials enhance the effectiveness of teaching strategy, no matter how good cannot replace the good teacher.

                For optimum learning, as teacher, we must observe the general principles in the use of instructional materials (IMs).

                All instructional materials are aids to instruction. Choose the instructional material that best suits your instructional objectives. Decide what you want to accomplish and then employ the tools that are most likely to achieve results. Do not let the media that is available to you determine how or what you will teach.

                If possible, use a variety of tools. Using videos, computers, overheads and the chalkboard not only keeps students’ interests but also responds to the needs of those who receive information in different ways.

                Check out your instructional material before class starts to be sure it is working properly. Nothing is more frustrating to you or to the students in the process of instruction than to find that the overhead projector, for instance, does not work the process of instruction.

                The use of variety of tools is a “come-on” in the teaching-learning process          

                There is a need to summarize or review the experience. Prepare measures that can assess their gains based on the objectives.

                Instructional objectives serve as basis in the selection of instructional material and not instructional that is available that determines an instructional objective.

By: Sandra Boringot | Teacher III | Limay National High School