Recent evidence demonstrates that audio-visual aids are essential teaching and learning tools. It greatly helps the teacher in effectively delivering the lesson and assists students in learning and retaining concepts for a longer period. Students' critical and analytical thinking improves when they use audio-visual aids.
In this respect, the Parent-Teacher Association (P.T.A.) of KNUST Basic School has donated 13 flat-screen television sets to the KNUST Basic School on Tuesday, May 31, 2020.
Professor Kwaku Amaning Adjei, Chairman of the P.T.A., stated that the donation is one of several initiatives the P.T.A plans to undertake during the academic year. The donation, he revealed, is necessary because the School informed the P.T.A. about the significance of audio-visual teaching and learning and how it would optimise the effectiveness of teaching and augment students' performance.
Dr. (Mrs.) Felicity Asiedu-Appiah, the Chairperson for the KNUST Basic School Management Board, asserted that audio-visual teaching and learning is a very important tool because children can remember what they see more than what they hear. "The importance of audio-visual teaching is evident when it comes to the time to teach a new or abstract concept that may be difficult to picture or grasp. Audio-visual aids allow teachers to demonstrate things to students that, otherwise, may not be clearly conveyed," she stated.
The Headteacher of KNUST Basic School, Rev. (Mrs.) Irene Nkansah, lauded the efforts of the P.T.A. and hoped they would continue to support them. "We are very thankful to the P.T.A. for donating these television sets to the School. They assured us that they would do more. We are looking forward to enhancing the School's teaching and learning experience, as well as its public image, through our collaboration with them," she said.
The Preschool would receive eight (8) television sets, while the primary would receive the remaining five (5).