It is teacher's responsibility to understand the types of learners in the class and provide learning experiences accordingly. Instructional
material is of great help to provide various learning experiences to students. Now let’s understand what is meant by Instructional material.
Instructional materials are the tools used in educational lessons, which includesactive learning and assessment.
Basically, any resource a teacher uses to help him teach his students is an instructional material. There
are many types of instructional materials, but let's look at some of the most common ones.
TYPES OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS IN TEACHING
What are instructional materials?
Instructional Materials include all materials designed for use by students and their teachers as
learning resources to help students to acquire facts, skills, and/or to develop cognitive processes.
Instructional materials in teaching or resources are available from many sources. Modern
education faces lots of problems. The attempts at solving these problems, which involve the use
of, organized combination utilization of people, materials, facilities, equipment and procedures
to achieve the desired instructional materials in teaching, instructional media and educational
media virtually mean the same thing.
They all involve media materials derived from communication revolution, which can be
used to promote teaching learning process. According to Agu Okogbuo (2000)
instructional materials in teaching could be classified into:
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Visual material - such as picture, diagrams buildings, projectors, teachers themselves, chart,
real objects (realia) studies etc. these materials such as books, newspapers
journals, magazines, pamphlets, handout or modules were also involved.
Audio materials – such as tape recording, cassette, radio, teleconferencing, language
laboratories, teachers voice. They appeal to the sense of hearing.