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INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT-
COURSE BOOKS/ TEXT BOOKS
AND TEACHER TEXT/ HANDBOOK

SUBMITTED BY
JEELU ELSA THAMPI
I B. Ed. ENGLISH
ROLL NO. 02
 INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT

Instructional support includes the materials

prescribed for learners and teachers.
The prominent materials for instructional support
are course book or text book and teacher text or
handbook.
 Each of these is described in the following slides
in detail.
 COURSE BOOK/ TEXT BOOK
A course book or a text book is an authentic book used
by students in learning a subject in a particular class.
It includes a large number of learning situations,
activities and facts.
The materials in it are prepared and arranged by experts
on the basis of valid principles which are philosophically,
sociologically, psychologically and culturally sound.
 COURSE BOOK/ TEXT BOOK
They are worthwhile reference points.
They specify what to learn, what to apply and
what to remember.
It can rightly be seen as a guide for the teacher, a
memory aid for the learners and a trustworthy
record of what has been learnt and to be learnt.
 IMPORTANCE OF A COURSE BOOK

It gives logically arranged learning materials.

It helps the teacher to proceed step by step.
It provides variety exercises.
It ensures higher tasks for higher classes.
It can meet individual differences among learners to an
extent.
It facilitates uniform materials for each class.
CRITERIA OF A GOOD COURSE BOOK

Learning
materials

Subject
Structure
matter

COURSE
BOOK

Vocabulary Proportion

Arrangeme
nt
CRITERIA OF A GOOD COURSE
BOOK
Style

Cost Illustration

COURSE
BOOK

Binding
Exercise
and cover

Good
quality
paper and
printing
 ADVANTAGES OF A COURSE
BOOK

It facilitates adequate practice to the learners.

It reinforces the items learnt in the classroom.
It familiarises students with a variety of situations and
tasks.
It facilitates learning by doing.
It encourages critical thinking.
 ADVANTAGES OF A COURSE
BOOK

It facilitates independent learning.

It facilitates self evaluation.
It meets individual differences as it includes different
items.
Pupils can write answers in the book itself.
It facilitates self correction and immediate feedback.
 TEACHER TEXT/ HANDBOOK
A handbook is an authentic reference material for
teachers issued along with the pupils’ course book.
In other words, handbooks are those books given
to teachers with the object of advising on how to
teach the prescribed text book.
It gives accurate guidance for improving the
language skills of pupils.
 IMPORTANCE OF A TEACHER TEXT/
HANDBOOK
 It aims at updating teachers’ knowledge and equipping them to
transact the curricular area in most effective manner.
 It gives teachers necessary guidelines so as to improve their
teaching and evaluation.
 It ensures sufficient background knowledge for each unit in the
course book.
 It familiarises the techniques and procedures followed in the
course book.
 Source book conveys to the teachers the knowledge as to how
to deal with each item in each unit.
 IMPORTANCE OF A TEACHER TEXT/
HANDBOOK
 It gives them additional information, extra materials, adequate
models, samples and suggestions for supplementary activities.
 It presents a variety of situations, tasks, exercises, examples and
activities before the teachers.
 New methods of teaching, techniques, strategies, innovative
modes of evaluation, novel activities for creating and
maintaining interest and an overview of the new developments
in the realm of psychology are detailed in it.
 It opens before teachers new horizons of presentation
techniques.
 ADVANTAGES OF A TEACHER TEXT/
HANDBOOK
It ensures uniformity in the mode of curriculum
transaction.
It updates teachers’ knowledge.
It improves teachers’ performance.
It introduces new evaluation modes and tools.
It helps teachers develop new instructional materials on
their own.
 ADVANTAGES OF A TEACHER TEXT/
HANDBOOK
It helps teachers evolve new techniques and strategies.
If facilitates quality instruction.
It enables teachers to chalk out new instructional
programmes.
It offers practical suggestions for redressing teachers’
problems.
It updates teachers’ awareness of new perspectives of
the society.
 REFERENCES

 Jamaluddeen, K. Effective Teaching of English. Quality

Publishers, 2014, 238-241.
 Sivarajan, K, et al. English Language Education. Calicut
University, 2012, 489-492.