Why are instructional materials valued in Schools?

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It is a deliberate arrangement of events or experiences to help learners achieve a desirable change in performance. The set of events are arranged in a way to support or facilitate learning. It can also be described as a purposeful direction of learning process and deliberate arrangement of learners environment in order to achieve a desirable change in performance.

It can be described as information that carry technology that has learning contents that can be stored, retrieve and transmitted between the teachers and the students.

They are objects, devices and things that are used by the teachers to transmit, transfer and share their encoded lessons with the learners who'll decode such lesson by analysing them to facilitate effective learning. Such media must be systemically designed to produce the behavioral objectives to match learners' characteristics, contents and instructional strategies and evaluation techniques.

• Instructional materials are used by the teachers to enable the students to learn maximally from the lesson.
• The learners' characteristics, contents and instructions, strategies and evaluation.
• Techniques must be put into consideration.
• These materials may include audiovisual, chalkboard, handout, charts, real objects, computer system, DVD, Interacting video, etc.

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1: Projected and non-projected media.
2: Audio instructional materials.
3: Hardware and software.
4: Big and small media.
5: Visual instructional materials.
6: audiovisual instructional materials.
7: Three and two dimensional materials.
8: Community based media.
9: Real objects

The use of instructional materials can help achieve the following:
1: Facilitate learning.
2: Attract attention of students.
3: Meet individuals' needs.
4: Reinforcement of learning.
5: Development of interest and motivation.
6: Saving energy and time.
7: Promoting acceptance of ideas.

The following are guidance and standard for studying the value of instructional materials.

1: Portability
2: Ruggedness
3: Durability
4: Characterisation
5: Ease
6: Accessibility
7: Ease of operation
8: Quality of performance
9: Ease of maintenance and repairs
10: Available services
11: Reputation of manufacturers.

1: Prepare the lesson.
2: Preview the material (s).
3: Prepare the environment.
4: Present.
5: Follow up.

Instructional materials are important and useful in schools because they help both the teacher and students learn how to assimilate things.