The Social Studies Teachers and Improvisation of Instructional Materials (a Case Study of Some Selected Junior Secondary School in Kirfi Local Government Area of Bauchi State).
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
In any teaching and learning there is the need to provide and improvised instructional materials in order to make teaching and learning so effective. As it is in the definition of instructional materials by various scholars as one of the primary tools in the hand of social studies teachers for the effective teaching in the classroom, Sunday in Ajayi, (2001), perceived instructional material as anything and anybody that can be used by the teacher during, before and after the lesson to help in the achievement of the lesson objectives which Ajayi (2001) defined as audio-visual materials used by the teacher to make learning process. Understandable to the pupils, instructional materials includes animates objects.
Therefore we can simply say that instructional materials are materials which the teacher used to facilitate and assist the teacher in teaching and learning process. Instructional Materials are aids, facilitate and assist in the teaching and learning.
It is worthy of note that more also of instructional materials does not guarantee effective communication and effective teaching and learning, it is their careful selection and skillful handling by the teacher that render them useful in facilitating learning. As a teacher you should not teach alone, but should find relevant resources to make your teaching more interesting and effective, the objective of teaching and learning process. Is to transmit ideas, information’s, skill and competence to the learners, the learner is expected to express changes in behaviour as a result of this interaction. To accomplish this teacher need a channel of communication that makes learning purposeful, vivid, interesting and understandable.
This study is interested in the Social Studies and their attitude toward production of instructional materials particularly in teaching Social Studies.
Thus opening chapter will careful examine the aims and objectives of the Social Studies, be course for any
1.0 INTRODUCTION
In any teaching and learning there is the need to provide and improvised instructional materials in order to make teaching and learning so effective. As it is in the definition of instructional materials by various scholars as one of the primary tools in the hand of social studies teachers for the effective teaching in the classroom, Sunday in Ajayi, (2001), perceived instructional material as anything and anybody that can be used by the teacher during, before and after the lesson to help in the achievement of the lesson objectives which Ajayi (2001) defined as audio-visual materials used by the teacher to make learning process. Understandable to the pupils, instructional materials includes animates objects.
Therefore we can simply say that instructional materials are materials which the teacher used to facilitate and assist the teacher in teaching and learning process. Instructional Materials are aids, facilitate and assist in the teaching and learning.
It is worthy of note that more also of instructional materials does not guarantee effective communication and effective teaching and learning, it is their careful selection and skillful handling by the teacher that render them useful in facilitating learning. As a teacher you should not teach alone, but should find relevant resources to make your teaching more interesting and effective, the objective of teaching and learning process. Is to transmit ideas, information’s, skill and competence to the learners, the learner is expected to express changes in behaviour as a result of this interaction. To accomplish this teacher need a channel of communication that makes learning purposeful, vivid, interesting and understandable.
This study is interested in the Social Studies and their attitude toward production of instructional materials particularly in teaching Social Studies.
Thus opening chapter will careful examine the aims and objectives of the Social Studies, be course for any
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