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- Daily practice makes routine familiar and easier to learn
- Combining visual aids with auditory lessons are more effective
- Simple design eliminates distractions and keeps focus on learning material
Ever met a wall that talks? Take a careful walk through the four corners of a modern classroom and observe the beautiful and loud lessons that those wall talkers silently share. They cover tonnes of informative subject areas that cut across the walls of a classroom. Those soundless teachers teach subjects that range from literacy, numeracy, culture, sensorial, language, OWOP (Our World and Our People) and the likes.
This article will zoom in on the essence of talking walls or wall talkers, and how they benefit both the learner and facilitator. As well as how they contribute to the aura of the classroom.
Talking Walls or Wall Talkers:
Serve as supplementary resources
Beside their decorative purpose, wall talkers serve as visual aids and supplementary to teaching and learning. Wall talkers share information that come in the form of diagrams, listings, drawings, and draw the relationship between numbers, colours, shapes, weather etc. Therefore, for effective teaching and learning, wall talkers could become the more appropriate media to use.
The use of wall talkers as part of morning drills and routine recitals, makes learners familiar with some knowledge fundamentals or rudiments.
Improve the level of retention in learners
Using visual aids are a very powerful way of imprinting an idea or concept in the minds of learners. When learners are able to relate the auditory delivery of lessons to pictures, the brain grabs it faster and it creates room for more understanding. In relating what learners hear to what they see, learners are becoming more engaged and focused on the lessons being taught.
For instance, if the lesson on the cycle of water is being treated or discussed, displaying a diagram with pictures indicating the various stages of the water cycle will give the learner a vivid visual impression of the topic rather than just the lecture on how water runs its cycle.
Using the wall talker, learners could be invited to the wall and asked questions that can test their understanding. With the aid of the visuals, they can easily explain themselves, and this will help them retain more of what is being discussed.
This way of teaching is a more effective process.
Enhances understanding
Another importance of the use of charts in teaching is that it enhances or speeds up the process of understanding a lesson. Learners tend to have a better and improved understanding of topics with the use of wall talkers as it bridges the gap between imagination and reality. Due to the fact that learners can perceive words in the form of images, it makes the teaching and learning process more interesting and understandable.
Enriches academic performance
With a high level of improved comprehension and retention of topics taught through the use of wall talkers, it leads to an improved academic performance. The outcome of effective teaching and learning is excellent performance. Therefore, the role that wall talkers play cannot be underestimated.
With the passage of time, the educational system sees varied ways, methods and techniques to achieve excellent performance of learners. Despite the influx of such, using wall talkers in teaching and learning has shown to be an effective instructional material for effective teaching and learning.
Do you remember?
Incorporating talking walls or wall talkers into a lesson is an effective and strategic way of catching the attention of learners, increasing their understanding and aiming at an overall excellent performance
