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.
