The importance of using teaching aids for educating Geography teacher students

Abstract

To make the lesson more interesting and effective, geography teachers need to fulfil two things: prepare abundant teaching tools with different using aims/purposes for each tool. From the teachers ’view, this paper emphasizes the role of the teacher in usi ng collected and created tools. The paper proves that helping student teachers to create their own gadgets in their work afterwards is much more important than just using the collected aids effectively. Making any kinds of teaching tools, from simple aids  such as drawings to the technological applicable ones like animated cartoons, the student teachers will have chances to approach and experience creative activities. By this way, the students is actually approaching to the competency-based learning. Besides, to provide understandings and skills of applying a special and important teaching aids, the teacher, is also the paper’s concern.