With the ongoing advance of modern-day technology such as televisions, computer games and game consoles, grabbing children’s attention with the ‘standard’ classroom lesson has grown into a much more difficult task. However, with the addition of a variety of teaching resources to the classroom, this task turns into something that is easier and more achievable.

So, why start using teaching resources?

Teachers should deliver both lively and stimulating lessons so that their students not only participate in the learning process, but want to engage in it. Of course, a teacher’s skill does play a significant role in lesson quality as well as enjoyment. However, the extra help of teaching resources increases the teacher’s chances of getting students more involved in the lessons, and gather more information from them as a result. By carrying out sufficient research online, teachers will find a wide range of teaching resources out there that should give their lessons the excitement, variety along with the ‘interest’ factor.

Teaching resources will be helpful not just to the student, but to the teacher also. The definition of ‘teach’ is to ‘show or explain to (somebody) how to do something.’ So, if the pupils don’t understand what they have been taught, then in theory, the teacher has failed in their task. By using teaching resources, there exists some degree of guarantee that the pupil will grasp at least some basic level of understanding – therefore increasing not just pupil satisfaction but teacher satisfaction also.

What teaching resources are available?

There are a number of teaching resources available, for different topics, different ages and different ability levels. Outlined below are a few tips on what sort of teaching resources should be employed (and the way they should be employed) for young sets of pupils.

1. Teaching resources should imitate objects that catch the attention of children.

If you try to teach your students numeracy with standard numbers or literacy with the common alphabet only, children particularly aren’t going to see any good reason why they should learn about these subjects. They will instantly see them as dull or unnecessary, and have no enthusiasm in any way to get involved in the learning process.

Nonetheless by making use of teaching resources that imitate their favourite foods or favourite animal for instance, they should choose to pay attention and show some interest into what the lesson is actually about (certainly more so than if they saw a standard number or letter on a standard whiteboard anyhow.)

Try food as an example. We all like food (children particularly) and is also something they come face to face with daily. Utilizing teaching resources that imitate their favourite sweets, desserts or ice-creams will stimulate their brains (it is something they’re accustomed to) and grab their attention instantaneously. What’s more, the learning process will continue beyond classroom time whenever they notice or experience those particular objects. It is also worth utilizing teaching resources that imitate healthy food also, including fruits and vegetables, in order to promote the healthy eating message.

2. Teaching resources should be bright and colourful

Throughout life, no matter what age, colourful things will always be a lot more eye-grabbing as well as interesting to observe when compared with objects which are dull and drab (and consequently boring.) This fact applies even more so to younger children. As a way to induce the learning process, eye-catching teaching resources should be put into use by the teacher.

When teaching numeracy for instance, a number line with lots of different colours (perhaps a different colour for each number from 1-10 or 10-20) is going to be a more appealing teaching resource than if it was in black and white only. A multiplication table could be colour coded, helping youngsters remember various sets of their times tables. Without the colour element, children just aren’t likely to want to learn.

The same applies for teaching literacy – a bright and colourful alphabet on the wall will be far more interesting to look at than an alphabet that is plain and ‘text-book.’ Reading verbs or short sentences (which can be quite challenging for young children) is made more exciting with a variety of colours. If a teacher wants to succeed, then he/she must employ teaching resources that are vibrant, vivid and full of colour.

The author works closely with Sweet Counter, a business that design colourful child-centred teaching resources to teach certain key concepts. They are designed as a fun as well as hands-on approach to learning in order to bring lessons alive.

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