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INSTRUCTION: Answer All questions 1. A science teacher wants to show his students the digestive system of a goat, a Mathematics teacher wants to show his students how to construct an angle using a compass, and a Home Economics teacher wants to show her students how to bake a cake. Which teach method will you recommend should be used by all these teachers. Describe the teaching method and explain four (4) reasons for your answer. 2. A teacher who wants to communicate effectively with his students does not just use any medium to teach or communicate. He needs to know which classification the medium belongs to, before selecting them. State and explain five (5) factors a teacher need to consider before selecting a medium to teach. 3. A geography teacher wants to teach her students the history of Ghana. She decides to draw a nice annotated map of Ghana in Ms. PowerPoint in order to project it on the screen for her students. Enumerate five (5) guidelines or principles she needs to follow in order to draw this map in Ms. PowerPoint.

Answer 1

Question 1:

I will recommend the method of science teacher who shows a digestive system of goat.

This system is a real time example .

1. It gives the students a practical experience.

2. A single practical exposure can make the students easily understand the entire procedure.

3. It gives clear knowledge about the concepts as it is provides visual experience.

4. This class also would be interactive and it gives students good memory power. This system can also be used to teach the digestive system of human beings.

Question 2.

Before teaching , there are certain factors to be considered in selecting the medium. Some of them are:

1. The mode of communication used by the medium shoud easily be underestandable to the students.

2. Real life experience need to be shown

3. The success rate of the medium needs to be studied and analyzed before showing them to students.

4. The medium should be complex. It should be simple.

5. Feedback from students needs to be considered before selecting medium.

Question 3:

The guidelines to be followed are,

1. Use a bold font and simple dark colour .

2. Always mark forests with green and water resources with blue.

3. Clearly define the boundary.

4. Shade different demographic groups from various cultures

5. Define borders and fix the map in defined scale.