Teaching Aids Bank

Making of supporting instructional materials in teaching really is a challenge. There are many factors that you should consider before starting to make it. Factors that involves its relatedness to your subject to be taught, the skills you wanted to developed to your students which could be develop with the help of the supporting instructional materials you are using, the learning styles of the students, for the students vary on how they learn a particular lesson, and lastly, instructional materials you used must fit and be appropriate with the learning objectives you have constructed. Truly, it is really hard to make instructional materials, knowing that creativity is really need for a teacher for creative instructional materials should be used  to catch the attention of the learners so that they could focus with the lesson at hand.

In line with the lesson plan I made, my instructional materials are models, charts, and pictures. Since it is a science subject, these instructional materials would help the student understand the lesson for it gives them visual representations of the concepts presented in the topic.

As I create my own instructional materials particularly the pictures, it was harder than I expected. I really took into considerations the factors listed above this reflection, and honestly, it was really hard. However, I have overcome this problem, because I know all the concepts of my lesson, and with that, I will know what is it not to be included and what is to be included in my instructional materials.

Lastly, teachers should not depend on these instructional materials, for teachers serve more than these, these instructional materials only serve as a support and guide to the lesson, to the activities and to the students. It is important that teachers also should be very knowledgeable with what he/she is teaching.