Edu 205.11 course book and handbook
- 1. EDU. 205.11 INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT- COURSE BOOKS/ TEXT BOOKS AND TEACHER TEXT/ HANDBOOK SUBMITTED BY JEELU ELSA THAMPI I B. Ed. ENGLISH ROLL NO. 02
- 2. INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT Instructional support includes the materials prescribed for learners and teachers. The prominent materials for instructional support are course book or text book and teacher text or handbook. Each of these is described in the following slides in detail.
- 3. COURSE BOOK/ TEXT BOOK A course book or a text book is an authentic book used by students in learning a subject in a particular class. It includes a large number of learning situations, activities and facts. The materials in it are prepared and arranged by experts on the basis of valid principles which are philosophically, sociologically, psychologically and culturally sound.
- 4. COURSE BOOK/ TEXT BOOK They are worthwhile reference points. They specify what to learn, what to apply and what to remember. It can rightly be seen as a guide for the teacher, a memory aid for the learners and a trustworthy record of what has been learnt and to be learnt.
- 5. IMPORTANCE OF A COURSE BOOK It gives logically arranged learning materials. It helps the teacher to proceed step by step. It provides variety exercises. It ensures higher tasks for higher classes. It can meet individual differences among learners to an extent. It facilitates uniform materials for each class.
- 6. CRITERIA OF A GOOD COURSE BOOK COURSE BOOK Learning materials Subject matter Proportion Arrangement Vocabulary Structure
- 7. CRITERIA OF A GOOD COURSE BOOK COURSE BOOK Style Illustration Exercise Good quality paper and printing Binding and cover Cost
- 8. ADVANTAGES OF A COURSE BOOK It facilitates adequate practice to the learners. It reinforces the items learnt in the classroom. It familiarises students with a variety of situations and tasks. It facilitates learning by doing. It encourages critical thinking.
- 9. ADVANTAGES OF A COURSE BOOK It facilitates independent learning. It facilitates self evaluation. It meets individual differences as it includes different items. Pupils can write answers in the book itself. It facilitates self correction and immediate feedback.
- 10. TEACHER TEXT/ HANDBOOK A handbook is an authentic reference material for teachers issued along with the pupils’ course book. In other words, handbooks are those books given to teachers with the object of advising on how to teach the prescribed text book. It gives accurate guidance for improving the language skills of pupils.
- 11. IMPORTANCE OF A TEACHER TEXT/ HANDBOOK It aims at updating teachers’ knowledge and equipping them to transact the curricular area in most effective manner. It gives teachers necessary guidelines so as to improve their teaching and evaluation. It ensures sufficient background knowledge for each unit in the course book. It familiarises the techniques and procedures followed in the course book. Source book conveys to the teachers the knowledge as to how to deal with each item in each unit.
- 12. IMPORTANCE OF A TEACHER TEXT/ HANDBOOK It gives them additional information, extra materials, adequate models, samples and suggestions for supplementary activities. It presents a variety of situations, tasks, exercises, examples and activities before the teachers. New methods of teaching, techniques, strategies, innovative modes of evaluation, novel activities for creating and maintaining interest and an overview of the new developments in the realm of psychology are detailed in it. It opens before teachers new horizons of presentation techniques.
- 13. ADVANTAGES OF A TEACHER TEXT/ HANDBOOK It ensures uniformity in the mode of curriculum transaction. It updates teachers’ knowledge. It improves teachers’ performance. It introduces new evaluation modes and tools. It helps teachers develop new instructional materials on their own.
- 14. ADVANTAGES OF A TEACHER TEXT/ HANDBOOK It helps teachers evolve new techniques and strategies. If facilitates quality instruction. It enables teachers to chalk out new instructional programmes. It offers practical suggestions for redressing teachers’ problems. It updates teachers’ awareness of new perspectives of the society.
- 15. REFERENCES Jamaluddeen, K. Effective Teaching of English. Quality Publishers, 2014, 238-241. Sivarajan, K, et al. English Language Education. Calicut University, 2012, 489-492.