What kids really like at school
The 2007 Schools Census from the ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) revealed that in August 2007, there were 3.4 million school students, up from 3.2 million in August 1997, with teacher numbers swelling 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 all agree that children have a short attention span and are easily 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.
Teaching aids have been part of school life for decades, and it is interesting that despite the advent of the computer age, hundreds of thousands of teachers across Australia still depend on more traditional methods to increase incentive, encourage and reward students.
For over half a century, Australian Teaching Aids have been supplying educators and retailers with a ever-increasing variety of products, from stickers to merit certificates, charts to benchmark books, stampers to novelty stationery.
Take Lachlan in Year 3 – there he is at his desk, painstakingly writing his ‘news’ using his special character pencil with a cute eraser as a pencil top.He is proud of his achievement and his teacher is as well.There aren’t any lollies for doing well, but Lachie doesn’t care.For his efforts, he gets a scented sticker in his book and a merit certificate which he takes off to the Principal’s office for signing.On his way there, his attention is caught by the laminated wall chart showing the chicken’s lifecycle.He likes the chart because it tells him all about the chooks that live in the green shed behind the classroom.In the meantime, little Ashleigh has had her maths book stamped by the teacher because she learned her times table off-pat using the chart on the wall.The teacher has used her special self-inking stamper, which can do 100 000 impressions – and moreover, it is re-inkable.
All these products – and much more – are from Australian Teaching Aids, which regularly increases and updates its range 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.
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