Low Cost, No Cost Teaching Aids

Making teaching aids is an emotionally, intellectually, aesthetically and professionally rewarding experience. It is an act of creation. It is an affirmation-an affirmation that I as a teacher care about the pupils and believe that, with the help of these learning aids, they can learn. It is an act of love.

Teaching aids provide a stimulus for exploration and thinking. With the added input of verbal, personal communication with an adult, interaction and discussion arise... and these are crucial to real, activity-based learning. Adults (and older children) help younger ones to interpret sensory and language experiences, to clarify them and relate them to their previous understandings. Children then learn by blending language with experiences. They learn to think. For maximum mental growth and personality development, a child's life needs to be filled with stimulating, encouraging experiences. Appropriate learning materials (teachings aids) help children to develop their innate abilities.

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