It is now well recognised fact that to keep teaching interesting and make it effective we have to make use of certain material aids.
The use of these material aids makes the teaching effective, simple and interesting. The use of sensory aids in teaching of commerce is of recent origin. We have been using text-book, writing materials, black-boards etc. Since long as indispensable equipment for commerce classes
The instructional material needed for different subjects of the commerce programme are almost limitless. In addition to text books these day some institutions have work-books, teacher’s manuals, practice sets and various types of test. The other instructional material commonly used includes films, film strips, pamphlets, hand-books, cyclostyled or typed material, journals and other annual publication etc.
The use of such instructional material is considered to be quite useful in improving the instructional programme of educational institutions. The material for use should be carefully selected and special care be taken to eliminate that type of material which distorts facts.
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Importance of Teaching Aids
In order to make the teaching of a subject interesting, effective and realistic, certain things are required. For the teaching of commerce these things are also useful. These things have their effect on the sense organ of students and so a coordinative teaching is possible. In the education today an attempt is made to coordinate the working of Head, Hands, Eyes and Ears. It can be achieved by proper use of teaching aids.
The teaching aids occupy a significant place in the process of education. Aids are of three types:
(i) Traditional aids: Text books, Black-board etc.
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(ii) Visual aids: Pictures, Sketches and diagrams etc.
(iii) Audio-visual aids: Radio, T.V. Films etc.
Need of Teaching Aids
In the present day society for imparting commerce education we need various types of teaching aids. These teaching aids are needed to impart education is a modern way. Audio-visual aids have brought about a revolutionary change in the education system. Even more sophisticated teaching aids may be available in near future and such sophisticated and advanced teaching aids may be available for use in teaching in the coming generation.
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Meaning significance and merit of audiovisual aids
Audio-visual aids or devices or technological media or learning devices are added devices that help the teacher to clarify, establish, correlate and coordinate accurate concepts, interpretations and appreciation and enables them to make learning more concrete, effective, interesting inspirational, meaningful and vivid. The aim of teaching with technological media is “clearing the channel between the learner and the things that are worth leaving”.
The basic assumption underlying audio-visual aids is that learning clear understanding-stem from sense experience. The teacher must ‘show’ as well as ‘tell.’
Audio visual aids provide significant gains in informational learning retention and recall, thinking and reasoning activity interest, imagination, better assimilation and personal growth and development. The aids are the stimuli for learning ‘why’, ‘how’, ‘when’ and ‘where’. The ‘hard to understand principles’ are usually made clear by the intelligent use of skillfully designed instructional aides.
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The significance and the educational importance of audio-visual aids have been noted down by the Mudaliar Commission in its report as follows:
It is hardly necessary to emphasize the role that audio-visual aids, film and radio talks, can play in the liberalizing of the education of the school children. In some states they have been developed to such an extent that most of the schools are able to obtain such aids from the Department of Public Instructions. We recommend that a central library of educational films should be available in each state and that films of great value be sent from the central government to the states periodically. We recommend also that educational films suited to Indian conditions should be taken and made available to schools.
As regards the radio, we are glad to learn that through the All-India Radio (AIR) arrangements have been made for school broadcasts. It is hardly necessary for us to emphasise that such broadcasts should be by well qualified persons and should create an interest in the subject so that the boy’s curiosity can be roused to learn more about the subject. Nothing is calculated to produce in the child an aversion for such broadcasts as the monotonous and none too graphic description that sometimes is given by persons not quite familiar with the psychology of the young mind. It should not be treated as a routines duty which can be discharged by any teacher in the area. Care must be taken to see that an expert panel of head masters and teachers is constituted to decide on: (i) the subject to be dealt with, (ii) the manner in which it ought to be dealt with, (iii) persons competent to give such talk. If school broadcasts are conducted on these lines, they will form a very efficient supplement to education.