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It is therefore considered that precise specifications for light modern school furniture should be prepared and all new schools be required to be equipped to these specifications. Proposals will shortly be put forward
to bring primary schools into line with secondary schools by providing replacement furniture entirely at Government expense. This will enable the new specifications to be applied to all replacement furniture. It is also proposed that priority of replacement should be given to schools with particularly unsuitable desks and chairs.
Teaching aids
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Teaching aids play a very important part in effective teaching and
may be divided broadly into three categories:
(a)
(b)
(c)
non-mechanical aids such as charts, models, photographs, pictures and worksheets;
mechanical aids such as tape recorders and projectors;
and
educational television
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a service rather than just a
teaching aid which is dealt with in Chapter 11.
For really effective teaching, a balance of these three types of aid has always been desirable and is even more necessary now because of the wide use of these aids outside the classroom.
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Non-mechanical aids which are often the most effective type of aids are beginning to be used much more widely. The school capitation grant is intended to provide for these and it has been proposed elsewhere in this Green Paper that this grant should be supplemented by a special grant for schools adopting the 'learning by doing' approach where non-mechanical aids are most widely used.
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However, it is not always realised that some of the best aids can be made by the teacher or even the class. The Education Department has also set up in Kowloon a Media Production Services Unit to assist teachers produce these aids (see Chapter 11).
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Schools are at present equipped with a filmstrip/slide projector and a cassette tape recorder. It is now proposed to add an overhead projector to the list of equipment for each school of eighteen or more classrooms and to make these freely available on loan to smaller schools. The overhead projector works well in full daylight and lends itself well to teacher-made transparencies, which can be produced very easily. The cost of implementing this proposal is estimated to be about $640,000.
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It is also planned to provide, in addition to a cassette recorder, more elaborate electronic equipment for use in language lessons. This is one of the proposals of the Education Department's English Adviser and the plan is to equip one or two classrooms with facilities to enable groups of students to listen to language tapes through headphones whilst other students are engaged in other activities. A detailed costing of this system is being prepared.
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