A paper of Poster as the instructional media in the class

CHAPTHER I

INTRODUCTION

A.      Background

Learning is a process of communication between learners, teachers and teaching materials. Communication will not run without the aid of conveying a message or media. The message to be communicated is that learning content in the curriculum as outlined by the instructor or facilitator and other sources into the symbols of communication, both verbal symbols and symbols of non-verbal or visual .

The use of media in teaching can help children in providing meaningful experiences for students. But they can also make it easier for students to understand something abstract becomes concrete.

In that case, use of posters in the teaching method is one type of media.Giving poster may be accompanied by a description and illustration statement.

Use posters to do in learning the power of reason can help the students to explain what they understand of the material explanation of the educators which they describe as a poster. Through student poster see, observe, and finally submit ideas through words visibly through posters. Thus poster not only as tools but students can help the interpretation of the object being observed.

Based on the above, it should be examined whether the use of posters in the learning process results will be better than learning only provided with lectures, descriptions and statements.

B.     Research Question

1.       What is the explanation of the method of learning using posters?

2.       What is the procedure contained in the learning method using posters?

3.       What are the learning style when using posters?

C.      Purpose of Writing

1.       To explain the learning method uses posters

2.       To describe the procedures contained in the learning method uses posters

3.       To find out if your learning style using posters

CHAPTER II

DISCUSSION

A.      POSTER

Generally, posters consist of illustrative pictures/photographs; artwork and printed work used as communicative advertisements presented in conciseforms for public display. They are not just pictorial, but visual presentation of simple, brief and well-articulated summary of written works to stimulate an audience.

The UW-Madison Writing Centre Writer’s Handbook defines poster presentation as an advertisement or a display, which combines text and graphics to make project work “visually interesting and accessible...to a large group of other scholars and to talk to and receive feedbackfrom interested viewers”

(http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/presentation_poster.html#).

Again, the WJSHS Science Poster Presentation describes a poster as “a hybrid between a research paper and presentation.” Its main purpose is to communicate the whats, hows and essential findings of a research experience to guide future effort (wyshs.org/...poster%20 presentation).

These three definitions portray the description and essential characteristics of educative posters as visual medium of communication created for audience effect. They are designed in colourful, large font, attractive lay-out with logical appeal and

concise illustration of ideas and summaries.

a.      Summary

This alternative method of presentation is a great way to provide information to students quickly understand what they imagine, and ordered the exchange of ideas between them. The technique is also a new and clear way that allows students to express their perceptions and feelings about the topic being discussed in a relaxed atmosphere you. 

Use posters this time not merely as a means of entertainment, in the sense used merely complement the learning process so that students get more attention.But preferred to accelerate the learning process and help students capture the meaning of the educator. 

b.      Advantages of Posters

Some advantages of this media are that:

v  they require little material and are easy to produce;

v   you can fix them permanently in one place, remove them, and put them up again as the need arises;

v   they are accessible to a large number of people;

v   you can use them at any time without need for supervision.

c.       Disadvantages of  Posters

Some disadvantages of this media are that:

v  they are not useful for a large audience during a lecture;

v   they can be easily stolen or destroyed;

v   they are hard to store in good condition over long periods;

v   you need artistic skills or an artist to produce good quality ones.

B.      PROCEDURES

1.      Instruct each student to choose a topic that relates to the topic of general subjects or sub-topics under discussion. 

2.      Ask students to display their concept on a poster board or bulletin board that we specify its size. Display the poster must necessarily indicate its contents; that is, when I see people easily understand the idea without further explanation, either orally or in writing. However, students can also prepare a one-page explanation contains a more detailed description as well as further reference material. 

3.      The poster will not only be important to convey the message or the specific effects but are also able to influence and motivate the behavior of people who see it. 

4.      The characteristics of a good poster is: 

a.     posters can be created on paper, cloth, wood, zinc, etc.

b.    simple

c.     presents an idea and to achieve one goal ultimate

d.    colored

e.     A simple and accurate slogan

f.      clear comments

g.     motifs and designs vary

5.      During the lessons that have been determined, instruct students to put their visual presentation material and touring around the room to observe and discuss each poster.  For example, in the discussion of stress on health subjects, topics must include the following:

a.     causes of stress

b.    The symptoms of stress

c.     The effect of stress on yourself and others

d.    stress reliever

Then. one student described the symptoms of stress and create a poster showing pictures of the following:

·         People who are overweight standing on scales

·          The minimum alcoholic drink

·          Two men arguing

·         People headache

Below each image is given a short paragraph explaining how and why stress may exhibit the symptoms described it.

6.      Fifteen minutes before the end of the lesson, instruct the students to return to its original position and discuss what they think is valuable in these activities. 

There are some another innovative ways in using poster as the media in teaching learning.

Poster projects: Poster making can be done in pairs or groups with students working on a common topic or separate topics. Abstract topics help to stimulate the flow of ideas and encourage students to think out of the box. Presenting the posters in front of the class also opens up a forum of discussion for the students.

Opening statement: Creating a poster presentation of the topics that you will teach in class is always more visually appealing and interesting instead of listing or writing down the same on the black board.

Interpret the poster: Introduce a poster and ask your students to interpret the same. Learning will occur as students introspect, critically analyze and introspect on the poster.

Poster closure: Once a lesson has been covered, teachers can instruct the students to create a poster outlining the key information that constitutes the lesson. It can be a simple pen paper activity but will most certainly require the students to combine their thoughts and learning.

Structure the poster: In this task the teacher can give words related to the topic and ask the students to form a poster. Each group can be given a subtopic and will need to decide what their poster must focus on. Teachers will be able to both test the students’ knowledge and understand if they have any misunderstandings.

Jumbled poster: 

·         To learn events in the chronological order or in sequence, create a poster and cut into pieces.

·         Give the students the pieces and ask the them to rearrange the pieces to and put the poster together.

·         Here are some more creative poster making projects that can add life to your lesson! Ask students to create a poster to educate others about a particular issue- like recycling, or exercising regularly.

·         Ask students to create a poster pretending that they are part of a story and are inviting people for an event in the story. (like a poster inviting the town for the ball in the Cinderella story)

·         Ask students to create a poster-infographic to explain statistics or share the results of a study that they did.

·         Ask students to create a poster to remind themselves of or remember an important learning strategy, or classroom rule.

·         You may ask students to create an alert poster for a fake hurricane, to help them learn about weather alerts.

·         Ask students to make a 3d poster without using any pens, paints or markers.

Why Posters?

From the list of activities given above, it is obvious that posters can have quite a positive effect on the process of learning. The best advantage of poster making is that it facilitates team work and understanding along with facilitating creative thinking and extensive research and reading. It provides students with an opportunity to learn by doing, in turn strengthening the learning. Students are able to visually represent the key points and while presenting elaborate on the same which facilitates their retention and recall of events and facts. Poster making and presentation is also an effective tool for evaluating the students’ knowledge and creates opportunities for active discussion and participation. Be it the traditional posters or technologically advanced computer presentations, poster making and presentations can actively engage students in their learning process.

C.      VARIATION

1.      You can choose to form teams of two or three, as an alternative to individual deployment, especially if the topic has a limited scope. 

2.      Follow up with a poster session with a panel discussion, with some students who displayed the posters as a panelist. 

CHAPTER III

CLOSING

A.      Conclusions

Poster is one of the media that can enhance students' motivation. In addition, the use of the poster as a medium of learning will be easier to build students' creativity and innovation in making an impression. In terms of understanding of teaching materials if the poster will be more acceptable, because it is presented in a different way, of course, easy to be caught and not always with an explanation of the educator.

Using posters also can overcome the passivity of students if lectures are always learning model will be less effective if it continues like that. Media poster later expected the students to better understand the subject matter taught by teachers, and then instructed the students to draw or sketch on this poster media.

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