Lesson 6 Using and Evaluating Instructional Materials

      As future educators, it is really important for us to use instructional materials. Furthermore, we also need to make sure that the instructional material we used is appropriate for our objective and can serve its purpose for the optimum learning experience of our students.

      There are some guidelines for us to select  the right materials for our lesson. These are as follows:
    
         - the material must give a true picture of the ideas they present

         - contribute to the attainment of our learning objective

         - be appropriate to the age, intelligence and experience of the    learners

         - be in good and satisfactory condition

         - provide for a teacher's guide

         - help develop the critical and creative thinking powers of students

         - be worth the time, expense and effort involved

      We should also put in mind that we don't just select a material for our lesson but we also need to know how to use them properly. To ensure effective use of our selected instructional material, we need to remember the acronym suggested by Hayden Smith and Thomas Nagel- the PPPF which means...
                      
                        P--- Prepare yourself
                        P--- Prepare your student
                        P--- Present the material
                        F--- Follow up