CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Teaching is a process of assisting a learner to
acquire knowledge and skills or experiences that could foster
effectiveness in the later age. Thus, once a child learns what he has been
taught teaching is said to have taken place. During the teaching/learning
process, the teacher has to adopt a particular method or methods to impact
knowledge to the learners coupled with useful materials that could help a
learner to learn. The careful selection and orderly arrangement of the various
elements of the curriculum materials and the various ways or the general
pattern of approach in which they are introduced to the learner constitutes the
instructional process.
The idea of adopting and using materials and equipments to enhance
effectiveness in the instructional process is as old as mankind. The wise
teacher will always use equipments or aids in form of instructional materials
to help the learners understand and learn better. This, he does alongside an
appropriate method of instruction. Udeh (1994) as cited in Olumba (2007),
emphasized that, the Greek mathematics had diagrams drawn on sand and Jesus
Christ who was one of the greatest teacher made continued use of materials and
illustrations during the course of his teachings. He added that, his special
reference was to what they could see, touch, manipulated etc to drive home his
message.
Ukwueze (2003) cited that, the use of instructional materials and
methods is still being practical in our traditional society. This, he cited
that traditional mothers not only teach their daughters the methods of cooking
food but also the ingredients (materials to be used in cooking activity and
teaching an enterprising venture, Awonji (1998) affirms that, the use of
instructional materials and good strategies in teaching and learning
environment is very important as they make lesson experiences more concrete and
realistic in learners. He added that, if instructional materials and effective
methods were used in our traditional society to aid teaching and learning
especially social studies, then one can deduced that our present form and
provisions of education which instructional materials are almost an abstract
subject.
Most often teaching especially in social studies is done with
inadequate instructional materials which will result in learners not
understanding the lessons taught and if the lesson is not understood, it leads
to a qualitative failure in examination. From the above, one can gather that,
the use of instructional materials coupled with adequate and effective methods
in the teaching of social studies in the learning situation is very crucial.
Ike (2002) referred that, instructional materials are device which
present a complete body of information and are largely self supporting rather
than supplementary in teaching or learning process. They are information
carrying technologies that are used for instructional purpose with the hope of
delivering educational information very quickly and very vividly too. These
instructional materials / media. This implies that, makers of instructional
materials should make sure. That they are prepared in a way that they will be
real and meaningful to learners. It is also important to note that though
instructional materials can be good and self supporting, it still requires
skilled and knowledge teachers to use them to make teaching / learning more
effective to the learners and creates clearer conditions for conceptual
thinking among learners.
Ikwuzom (2001) opined that instructional materials and methods
enables the teacher to widen the experiences of his students. This is done by
exposing the students into a variety of experiences that would enable them see
things that exist outside their immediate environment. With the use of films for
instance, students see far communities and settlements and how people lie
there. Thus, when students see things they could not have seen without
instructional materials, their experiences will be broaden and depend.
Social studies on its own is very rich in instructional materials
and methods for its effectiveness. This is true because the whole environment
of man with all the things in it constitute the laboratory for social studies.
The dynamic nature of social studies education makes it paramount for the
teachers of social studies to use instructional materials to enable the
students quickly relate their classroom to the environment they live in and
interact.
Department | Education |
Project ID Code | EDU0131 |
Chapters | 5 Chapters |
No of Pages | 95 pages |
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