TEACHING AIDS (AUDIO VISUAL AIDS)

Meaning:

For the smooth, powerful and uninterrupted flow of communication between the teacher and taught, a teacher has to make use of different type of aid material in the form of effective communicating link between him and his students. The charts, maps, models, slides, films, projectors, radio, television etc. which help the teacher in a good communication, healthy classroom interaction and effective realization of his teaching objectives may be termed as aids in the field of teaching and learning.

Definition:

          “Audio-visual aids are those aids which help in completing the triangular process of learning i.e, motivation, classification and stimulation”

                                                                                   Carter V. Good

“Audio –visual aids are any device which can be used to make the learning experience more concrete more realistic and more dynamic”

                                                                                 Kinder S James

“Audio Visual aids are anything by means of which learning process may be encouraged or carried on through the sense of hearing or sense of sight”.

                                                           Goods Dictionary of Education

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IMPORTANCE OF AUDIO-VISUAL AIDS

         

Audio-visual aids used in the teaching-learning process have wide significance from the view points of teaches as well as learners .The importance of audio-visual aids are summarized below

1.     Use of maximum senses

Senses are said to be gateway of knowledge. Audio-visual aids call for the utilization of as many senses as possible and thereby facilitate the acquisition of maximum learning on the part of students.

2.     Based on maxims of teaching

 The use of audio-visual aids provide assistance to the teacher for following maxims of teaching like ‘simple to complex’, ‘concrete to abstract’, ‘known to unknown’, and ‘learning by doing’, etc.

3.     Helpful in the process of attention

 Attention is a key factor in any process of teaching-learning. Audio-visual aids help the teacher in creating proper situations and environment for capturing as well as maintaining the interest and attention of the students in the classroom activities.

4.     Reduce Verbalism

According to Raymond Wyman “Verbalism both printed and spoken does not prove much effective in the process of teaching and learning”. Teaching aids reduces this verbalism.

5.     A good motivating force

 Audio-visual aids match with the inner urges, instincts, basic drives and motives of the students and thus prove a potent motivating force for energizing learners to ‘learn effectively’.

6.     A good substitute for direct experience

Audio-visual aids provide valuable substitute for the real object or phenomena for making the learning as realistic and meaningful as possible.

7.     Provide adequate impression or image

 The key for the effective learning lies in the quality of sensory images or impressions made through the experiences gained at the time of learning. Audio-visual aids help in adequate retention by leaving behind a permanent mark in the form of adequate impressions or images and thus aid to effective and relatively permanent learning.

8.     Clarity of the subject matter

Audio-visual aids bring clarity to the various difficult and abstract concepts and phenomena related to various subjects.

9.     Helps in fixing up the new learning

Audio-visual aids help in achieving their objectives by providing numerous activities, stimuli and experiences to the learners.

10.            Save time and energy

 Much of the time and energy of both the teacher and the students may be saved on account of the use of audio-visual aids as most of the abstract concepts and phenomena may be easily clarified, understood and assimilated through their use.

11.            Meet the individual differences requirements

 These are wide individual differences among learners. The use of various types of Audio-visual aids helps in meeting the requirements of different types of pupils.

 

12.            Encouraging healthy classroom interaction

 Success of a teaching-learning act depends upon an appropriate classroom interaction. Audio-visual aids through its wide variety of stimuli, provision of active participation and vicarious experiences encourage healthy classroom interaction for the effective realization of teaching-learning objectives.

13.            Solve the problem of Indiscipline

 With the introduction of Audio-visual aids, there is less room for the creation of a passive, dull and uninteresting environment in the classroom.

14.            Help in the development of scientific attitude

Use of Audio-visual aids help in cultivating scientific attitude among students.

15.            Help in the development of higher faculties

 Verbalism leads to memorization. It does not aid to the development of higher faculties of mind. Use of Audio-visual aids stirs the imagination, thinking process and reasoning power of the students.

16.            Provide reinforcement to the learners

 Audio-visual aids prove effective reinforcing agents by increasing the probability of the re-occurrence of the responses associated with them and thus render valuable help in the process of teaching and learning.

17.            Help in positive transfer of learning and training

Use of Audio-visual aids helps in the direction by making possible the appropriate positive transfer of learning and training to the other learning and training situations in the classroom as well as in the real world.

Reference

 Mohan Radha, (2002). Innovative Science Teaching for Physical Science Teachers.New Delhi:Prentice Hall of India Private Limited.

 

Sharma,R.A.(2007).Essential of Educational Technology and Management. Meerut:R.Lall Book Depot.

 

Aggarwal,J.C(20130 Essentials of Educational Technology:Innovation in Teaching –learning. New Delhi: Vikas publishing House PVT. LTD.

 

Rawat,S.C.(2007).Essential of Educational Technology. Meerut:R.Lall Book Depot.