Sunday, October 24, 2010

Evolution of Instructional Mateials Design

By: Licda Cleopatra Noel D.

The objective of a teacher of ESL is to have students using the language as they make it more meaningful, that the reason way the use of materials is very important and effective materials include certain components or features:

  • Instructional goals with adaptability to course requirements.
  • Accurate, relevant, and relatively up-to-date information.
  • Well-organized, coherent, and unified flow of information.
  • Appropriate reading level and vocabulary.
  • Effective layout visual presentation, and physical features.
Textbooks also is useful that is the reason why they remain as the main curriculum guides. They are the most frequently used instructional material for students and teachers at all grade levels beyond primary grades.

The Teacher's Manual

This is a key presentation feature than can be a strong selling point, especially if well designed. It contains instructional resources to support instructional strategies and activities, and its organization affects how well it can be adapted and used in the classroom. Teacher manuals work well when it has the following basic features:

  1. Practically.
  2. Alignment.
  3. Coverage.
  4. Readability.
  5. Methods.
  6. Assessment.
  7. Management.
Technology Changes

The expansion of technology, even more specialization features, such as graphic design, photography, and typefaces, he¡ave emerged. These types of features as well as titles of materials have become increasingly important.

Visual Presentation

The visual material include two important aspects such as a presentation and an organization any materials presented in various media be more effective than conventional classroom instruction when they are organized systematically with a deliberate structure and sequence.

Challenges in Reviewing Content

These challenges are varied and numerous, including evaluating content that is controversial, inaccurate, or without scholarship; written by anonymous authors; or misleading.

Inaccurate Content

Previous research cited Florida's Evaluator's Handbook, reported that materials often do not give topics treatment they deserve, contain factual errors, or persist in presenting disproved concepts.

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