This document discusses teaching aids and their importance in education. It begins by introducing the presenter and providing objectives for the presentation. It then defines teaching aids as materials that help students understand concepts and notes their purpose is to reinforce ideas, engage students, and accommodate different learning styles. The document outlines different types of teaching aids, including visual, audio, and audiovisual aids. It emphasizes that teaching aids motivate students, clarify lessons, encourage understanding over cramming, make classrooms more lively, and provide direct experience. Examples of common teaching aids are given such as whiteboards, flipcharts, projectors, and audio/visual recordings.

1. Teaching Aids
Waseem Ahmed #05
Education Department
Batch 2014.
SBBU, SBA

3. Objectives:
By the end of this presentation:
 You should be able to understand teaching aids
 Should be able to know importance of teaching aids
 Should be familiar with different types of teaching
aids

4. Why use Teaching Aids?
Teaching/Instructional aids are useful to:
• reinforce what you are saying and summarize key
concepts,
• ensure that your point is understood,
• hint what is important/essential,
• engage or stimulate students’ other senses in the
learning process,
• facilitate different learning styles.

5. A Definition of Teaching Aids
• Teaching aids are materials that the classroom
teacher uses to help students understand the
concepts s/he introduces during his/her lesson.
• A teaching aid is a tool used by teachers,
facilitators, or tutors to help learners improve
reading and other skills, illustrate or reinforce a
skill, fact, or idea, and relieve anxiety, fears, or
boredom, since many teaching aids are like
games.

6. Teaching Aids:
As we all know that today's age is the age of
science and technology. The teaching
learning programs have also been affected
by it. The process of teaching - learning
depends upon the different type of
equipment available in the classroom.

7. Need of Teaching Aids
• 1) Proper use of teaching aids helps to retain
more concepts permanently.
2) Students can learn better when they are
motivated properly through different teaching
aids.
3) Teaching aids develop the proper image
when the students see, hear taste and smell
properly.
4) Teaching aids provide complete example for
conceptual thinking.

8. Need of Teaching Aids
•
5) The teaching aids create the environment
of interest for the students.
6) Teaching aids provide direct experience to
the students.

9. Types of Teaching Aids
There are many aids available these days.
We may classify these aids as follows-
. Visual Aids
. Audio Aids
. Audio - Visual Aids

10. Types of Teaching Aids
• 1). Visual Aids
The aids which use sense of vision are called Visual
aids. For example :- actual objects, models, pictures,
charts, maps, chalkboard, overhead projector, slides etc.
Out of these black board and chalk are the commonest
ones.
2) Audio Aids
The aids that involve the sense of hearing are called
Audio aids. For example: - radio, tape recorder,
gramophone etc.
3) Audio - Visual Aids
The aids which involve the sense of vision as well as
hearing are called Audio- Visual aids. For example: -
television, projector, etc.

11. Importance of Teaching aids
Teaching aids play a very important role in
Teaching- Learning process. Importance of
Teaching aids is as follows:-
1) Motivation
Teaching aids motivate the students so that they
can learn better.
2) Clarification
Through teaching aids, the teacher clarifies the
subject matter more easily.
3) Discouragement of Cramming
Teaching aids can facilitate the proper
understanding to the students which discourage
the act of cramming.

12. Importance of Teaching aids
4) Classroom Live and active
Teaching aids make the classroom live and active.
5) Avoids Dullness
Decreases lazy attitudes of students.
6) Direct Experience
Teaching aids provide direct experience to the
students

13. Teaching Aid Examples
• Chalkboard/Whiteboard
• Flipcharts
• Overhead Projector/Transparencies
• Power Point slides
• Data Projectors/Smart Board
• Audiotapes/CDs
• Videotapes/DVDs

14. Chalkboard/Whiteboard

15. Flipcharts

16. Overhead Projector/Transparencies

17. Power Point Presentations

18. Data Projectors/Smart Board

19. Audiotapes/CDs

20. Videotapes/DVDs

21. Thank you!