Teaching Aids
The Impacts of Teaching Aids usage on secondary school students’ performance in biology: a study of some selected senior secondary school in Yewa South Local government area.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1. Background to the study The teaching of Biology to make understanding of the students has been what teachers of the subject find difficult to do. Even as cases may arise when these teachers are not happy about their students’ performance in the subject, not many of them have sat down to find out where the problem lies. (Robert, 2009) The few who have endeavored to sleep over the problems in order to proffer solutions have always seen the problems outside themselves despite the fact that there is a lot they can do to make students learn without tears. The teachers have attached the poor performance of students in biology to several factors. Among these factors are:
(a) Students poor knowledge of integrated science
b) The attitude of the students to the subject
c) Lack of good text books
d) Lack of standard laboratory (Taiwo, 1982). What they have failed to do is trace or tries to view the problems from the perspective of their own performance. It cannot be over stressed that teaching requires a great deal of dedication on the part of the teacher. According to Edun (2003) in his article on “Teaching and Teachers” stressed that “Those who come into teaching, must know what they are bargaining for. Their consuming interest in the lesson and even level of class’s attendance has declined drastically. What could be responsible for this? One of the students I interviewed had to say “Ma, we have not been using things you now use’ Things referring to the teaching aids I used to take the class during my teaching which could be real objects examples include plants of different colors when I taught plant nutrition and just with a diagram on cardboard and so on. There and then I begin to think of it that there could be a correlation between
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1. Background to the study The teaching of Biology to make understanding of the students has been what teachers of the subject find difficult to do. Even as cases may arise when these teachers are not happy about their students’ performance in the subject, not many of them have sat down to find out where the problem lies. (Robert, 2009) The few who have endeavored to sleep over the problems in order to proffer solutions have always seen the problems outside themselves despite the fact that there is a lot they can do to make students learn without tears. The teachers have attached the poor performance of students in biology to several factors. Among these factors are:
(a) Students poor knowledge of integrated science
b) The attitude of the students to the subject
c) Lack of good text books
d) Lack of standard laboratory (Taiwo, 1982). What they have failed to do is trace or tries to view the problems from the perspective of their own performance. It cannot be over stressed that teaching requires a great deal of dedication on the part of the teacher. According to Edun (2003) in his article on “Teaching and Teachers” stressed that “Those who come into teaching, must know what they are bargaining for. Their consuming interest in the lesson and even level of class’s attendance has declined drastically. What could be responsible for this? One of the students I interviewed had to say “Ma, we have not been using things you now use’ Things referring to the teaching aids I used to take the class during my teaching which could be real objects examples include plants of different colors when I taught plant nutrition and just with a diagram on cardboard and so on. There and then I begin to think of it that there could be a correlation between