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Learning Curve Issue 31 Teaching and Learning Materials

Description:
Teaching Learning Materials (TLMs) and Aids, which form the focus of this issue of Learning Curve, an indispensable part of a teacher’s bag of tricks, is a generic term that describes any material that supports and buttresses teachers’ efforts in getting a class of diverse capabilities to understand the basics of any learning. They have to fulfil some basic requirements: simplify concepts, provide the chance of practice, increase interest and motivation, help to explain complexities, concretise abstractions, enrich the course - though, of course, a single TLM may not meet all the above criteria.
Content
Evolving Perception of Teaching and Learning Materials
Creative Use of Teaching-Learning Materials
TLM-An Obstacle or an Advantage?
TLM – The What, the Why and the How!
Experiences of Experiment-Based Instructions in Science
The Blackboard as the First Teaching Aid
On the Shoulders of the Technology Giant
Stories and Doodles as Teaching Aids in Science
Teaching Learning Materials to Understand Some Geographical Concepts
Chakmak - Sparking an Interest in Reading and Learning
Toying with Teaching-Learning Materials: Early Years of Learning