What kids really like at school
Monday, September 14th, 2009Results from the 2007 Schools Census released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that in August 2007, there were 3.4 million school students, up from 3.2 million in August 1997 with teacher numbers increasing to over 266 800.
And if you had to ask any one of these teachers how long the attention span of a primary school child is, they will undoubtedly respond the same way.They will be unanimous in saying that primary school children have short concentration spans and are quickly distracted.Therefore it’s vital to have bright, striking, stimulating and relevant teaching aids around the classroom so that when little minds wander, they wander in the right direction.
Notwithstanding technological advances, primary and lower middle school teachers throughout Australia still depend on traditional teaching aids to reward, incentivise, encourage and praise their students.
For over 25 years, Australian Teaching Aids have been contributing to primary school classrooms with their huge range of products ranging from stickers, posters, charts, decorative borders, merit certificates and benchmark books.
There’s 8-year old Lachlan, carefully rubbing out his handwriting mistakes with a cute character pencil-top eraser and then carefully redoing his work with his novelty pencil.He is chuffed with what he’s done, and his teacher is proud of him too. No lollies for him, but he doesn’t mind.He gets a cool metallic sticker and a merit certificate which he then takes to the Principal for his signature.On his way to the office, he sees a chart on wall which shows the lifecycle of a chicken. He likes looking at it because he’s learning about the chooks outside in the shed.On the other side of the classroom, the teacher has stamped Kirsten’s maths book with a smiley face because the little learner had learned her times table off-pat from the wall chart.The stamper that the teacher is using can make 100 000 impressions, and can be re-inked.
Australian Teaching Aids have a wide range of products, with regular improvements and innovations introduced to meet market demands.Teaching aids including merit certificates, stampers, book markers and book labels, wall charts and educational posters, benchmark books and stickers are a central feature of the primary school environment.
Encouragement and reward are proven performance incentives, and for pupils and teachers alike, teaching resources can go a long way in unlocking potential.
