TEACHING AIDS/MATERIALS AS A PANACEA FOR EMPLOYMENT AND EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS’ IN BUILDING TECHNOLOGY IN TECHNICAL COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA.

Abstract

The use of teaching aids promotes closer and effective communication between the teacher and the learners. This teaching aids could be printed such as textbooks, workshops and non-printed such as films, videotapes, television. Also, there are different instructional materials to be use in teaching basic subject effectively but not all topics require the same type and quality of material. Hence, instructional materials are classified in different ways such as audio, audio-visual, and visual. In order to achieve the objectives of Building Technology, any materials to be used as teaching aid must have the following characteristics such as, colour, visibility, flexibility, sufficiency, simplicity, appropriate, artistic, bright, clear, brief, and clean. Two research questions were used for the study. The design of the study was descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprised of 100 students in Building construction trade of different levels in Nigeria in which 45 students in building construction trade from Federal College of Education Technical Akoka and 45 students from Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education Ojo, Ijanikin, Lagos State. Were randomly sampled. A structural questionnaire with twenty (20) items was used as instrument for data collection and it was validated by three expects of project supervisor for modification before it was administered to the respondents. The data collected were analysed using weight Average mean and percentage distribution. The finding show that there is inadequate use of teaching aids and strongly disagree that teaching aids are used frequently in practical courses during the process of teaching Building Technology. It was recommended that educational manager’s school administrators should ensure that Teaching aids are provided for lectures to teach effectively.