Abstract:

Teaching aids have always been an inseparable part of the educational process. There are a lot of categories of didactic material resources contributing, on condition of their proper use, to more effective achieving of educational goals, to presentation and demonstration of the curriculum in different ways, to activation of students, to motivation to learn, to rationalization and intensification the work of teachers, and many others. Nowadays, with the continuous development of technology-supported learning environment in the digital age and with increasing demands on technology skills of teachers, it is essential to ensure quality of teaching and learning in connection with the effective and trouble free integration of teaching aids in education, too.

The paper aims to analyze the way of using teaching aids requiring educational technologies (i.e. audio-visual, auditory and electronic teaching aids) based on previous experience of graduates of secondary schools, currently university students. In other words the exploratory survey is focused on a study of statements of these students about how their secondary school teachers used such teaching aids during the lessons and where, according to them, in the context of these aids their teachers usually made mistakes, it means what must be avoided in the future to ensure the quality of education. The target group consists of undergraduates of bachelor's degree of the Institute of Education and Communication of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague specializing in Teacher Training who have successfully completed the course focused on the effective use of educational resources in the educational process. Discussions with the undergraduates and a questionnaire are used as tools of the survey.

Keywords:

Teaching aids, technology-enhanced learning, quality of teaching and learning, evaluation, demonstration, view of graduates, common mistakes.