Instructional materials
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Instructional materials, also known as teaching materials, learning materials, or teaching/learning materials (TLM),[1] are any collection of materials including animate and inanimate objects and human and non-human resources that a teacher may use in teaching and learning situations to help achieve desired learning objectives. Instructional materials may aid a student in concretizing a learning experience so as to make learning more exciting, interesting and interactive. They are tools used in instructional activities, which include active learning and assessment.[2] The term encompasses all the materials and physical means an instructor might use to implement instruction and facilitate students achievement of instructional objectives.
Background
[edit]The value of instructional materials as a pedagogical aid can be seen in Vachel Lindsay's poem "Euclid":
Old Euclid drew a circle
On a sand-beach, long ago.
He bounded and enclosed it
With angles thus and so.
His set of solemn greybeards
Nodded and argued much
Of arc and of circumference
Diameter and such.
A silent child stood by them
From morning until noon,
Because they drew such charming
Round pictures of the moon.[3]
Types of instructional materials
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Instructional materials can be classified by type, including print, visual, and audiovisual, among others:
| Textbooks, pamphlets, handouts, study guides, manuals, blackboard and whiteboard | |
| Audio | Cassettes, microphones, podcasts, CDs |
| Visual | Charts, real objects, photographs, transparencies |
| Audiovisual | Slides, tapes, films, filmstrips, television, video, multimedia, DVDs |
| Electronic interactive | Computers, graphing calculators, tablets |
Evaluation of instructional materials
[edit]Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) Committee
[edit]The Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) Committee "'promotes and shares peer-reviewed instructional materials created by librarians to teach people about discovering, accessing and evaluating information in networked environments.' In doing so, it reviews librarian-created online tutorials dealing with information literacy and critical thinking skills, and highlights the highest-caliber projects through its "Site of the Month" posts on the ACRL Instruction Section blog.[4][5] PRIMO's goal is to provide librarians quality tutorials for instructional use on a variety of topics in order to save time, effort and cost. PRIMO accepts non-promotional online instructional material intended for undergraduate or graduate-level audiences emphasizing quality over comprehensiveness.
Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool
[edit]"Student Achievement Partners is a nonprofit organization that assembles educators and researchers to design actions based on evidence that will substantially improve student achievement."[6] The tool provided by the organization is the Textbook Alignment and Adaptations Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool.[7] The goal of this tool is to assist in evaluation textbooks or series of textbooks for alignment to the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
See also
[edit]- First Principles of Instruction
- Cognitive load
- Instructional design
- Learning object
- National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard
- Open educational resources
- DoITPoMS
References
[edit]- ^ Lewis, Beth (2018-05-10). "TLM or Teaching Learning Materials Definition". ThoughtCo. Archived from the original on 2018-04-14. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- ^ "What is [sic] Instructional Materials". global dictionary. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- ^ Lindsay, Vachel (April–September 1913). "Euclid". In Monroe, Harriet (ed.). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Vol. II. p. 123.
- ^ http://acrl.ala.org/IS/category/committees/primo
- ^ Kaspar, Wendy; Borgerding, Jodie (2017). "PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online". College & Research Libraries. 78: 2–7. doi:10.5860/crl.78.1.2.
- ^ Student Achievement Partners (August 21, 2013). "Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool". Achieve the Core. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
- ^ Textbook Alignment and Adaptations Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool
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