How can the educator help learners to learn? The old way was to tell learners as much as possible, passing on the educator’s knowledge. Now the educator acts as a helper. She will organise experiences which allow the learners to do health behaviors, she may utilize instructional materials, she may write downsome questions for a group of learners to discuss. In all these ways the teachers is helping learning.
Some educators feel that they must do all the talking themselves. They feel that they are not really teaching the learners some new information, but this is quite wrong.
In fact if a educatorgives a lecture and learners do not learn, then the educator is talking not teaching.
So the devlopment of instructional materials is much needed to be a learner education. And the selection of materials may be very important for the level of maturity of the learners in interest, complexity of ideas, opportunity for self-identification, speed of learners’ ability to observe and length of concentration.
Author studied the several instructional materials which can be utilized in the field of dental health education and also studied their values, limitations and considerations when they are used.
The learning activities are poster, puppet, model, mock-up, specimen, flannel board, chalk board, bulletin board, psychodrama, role play, field trip, exhibition, laboratory method.
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