Using and Evaluating Instructional Materials
- 5. DEFINITION are educational resources used to improve students’ knowledge, abilities, and skills, to monitor their assimilation of information, and to contribute to their overall development and upbringing. Instructional Materials
- 6. 1. Give a true picture of the ideas they present.
- 7. 2. Contribute to the attainment of your learning objective/s. Objective: For students to identify the different stages of meiosis under the microscope.
- 8. 3. Audience appropriateness. age experience intelligence Heterogeneous Class
- 9. 3. Audience appropriateness. AGE Students are able to use. Students are able to do. Interesting to students belonging to their age group. Consider students’ developmental stage.
- 10. 3. Audience appropriateness. Cater different levels of cognitive development. Does not only emphasize a single type of intelligence . Consider different types of learner and multiple intelligences. INTELLIGENCE Guide and assess students’ learning fairly.
- 11. 3. Audience appropriateness. Sufficient background to comprehend the material. Consider students’ previous learning background. Prior knowledge. EXPERIENCE
- 12. 3. Audience appropriateness. Do these instructional materials address the 3rd guideline?
- 13. 4. In good & satisfactory condition. Picture, Chart, etc. Usable Visually attractive Clear Technology Fully functional User friendly With helpful features Videos Not static Clear motion picture Clear audio
- 14. 5. Availability of a teacher’s guide. Increased chances that instructional materials will be used to the maximum and optimum.
- 15. 6. Help develop critical and creative thinking. It is highly important that we maintain and strengthen rational powers.
- 16. 7. Worth the time, expense, and effort involved. Practical. Conserve our resources. Reasonable.
- 18. Worst…
- 19. Prepare yourself. Prepare your student. Present the material. Follow up.
- 20. Prepare yourself. Know your lesson plan. Know your expectation from the class after the session. Know why you have selected such particular instructional materials. Plan on how you will proceed, what questions to ask, how you will evaluate learning, and how you will tie loose ends before the bell rings.
- 21. Prepare your students. Set class expectation and learning goals. Give students guide questions. Motivate them. Keep them interested and engaged.
- 22. Present the material. Present it under the best possible conditions. Rehearse and carefully plan your performance.
- 23. Follow up. Ascertain attainment of learning objective.
- 24. Connection to Robert Gagne’s Nine Instructional Events (Conditions of Learning) 1. Gain attention. 2. Inform learners of objectives 3. Stimulate recall of prior learning. 4. Present stimulus material. 5. Provide learner guide. 6. Elicit performance. 7. Provide feedback. 8. Assess performance. 9. Enhance retention transfer.
- 25. “There is no such thing as best instructional material.” “No instructional material, no matter how superior, can take the place of an effective teacher.”