Resource Unit- Meaning, Importance and Steps

Supplementary material

·       Potential value for commerce teaching.

·       Text book cannot satisfy all the aspects of critical and inspirational knowledge and lacking the details with regard to contemporary affairs.

·       Text book cannot cope up with the materials of fast changing events.

·       Text books are not self-explanatory. It sometimes need elaboration. Elaboration is possible through advanced works, reference books and source books etc.

·       Autobiographies and biographies are also inspirational sources.

·       Well written speeches, pamphlets prepared by local, state and national societies provide material for students.

Objectives

Supplementary materials aim:

·       To help students to acquire additional information.

·       Widen the horizon of students.

·       At enriching the knowledge already acquired through the text book.

·       Enable the students to develop study habits.

·       Motivating them to write articles and speeches.

·       Bringing a relation between the past and the present.

·       Enable to form an acquaintance with the literature pertaining to commerce.

·       Making teaching of commerce more inspiring and interesting.

·       Enable them to make best use of their leisure time.

·       Form the conception of how material built up.

Types of supplementary materials.

·       Journals and periodicals in commerce and allied disciplines.

·       Government documents and reports like RBI bulletin, reports of planning commission, finance commission etc.

·       Budget discussions in parliament and state assemblies.

·       Special issues brought out by newspapers on commerce.

·        Reports by chairman of public and private companies.

·       Reference books and encyclopaedias on commerce.

·       Book reviews.

·       Teaching aids like films, film strips, video-tape recordings, graphs, cartoons etc.

·       Survey reports.

·       Special pages or news of commercial importance of newspapers for example, bullion market, share prices etc.

·       Technical reports like bank documents, business documents, company documents, income tax documents, proforma of shipping documents, cheques, bills etc.

Magazines and journals

·       To keep themselves abreast of the latest development in various fields.

·       Current events are to be correlated with teaching of commerce.

·       Contains interest and latest materials on different matters relating to commerce.

·       Provides details regarding price trends, debates in parliament and state legislature regarding commerce policy, share markets and budget discussions.

Newspapers

·       Bridge the gap between information contained in the books and changing development in movements, trends, ideas and changes in politics, international relations and economic and civil life.

·       Special Sunday issues.

·       Articles on new researches in various fields can enlighten the students.

·       Very essential that from the very beginning of their school career, students are made newspaper minded.

Workbooks

·       Play a vital role in leading to the concrete idea of the concept presented in text books.

·       Provide opportunities to the students to apply knowledge gained through text books.

·       Based on the principle of learning by doing.

Reference books

·       Not designed to cover a prescribed course of study for a particular exam conducted by a Board, University or any other examining body.

·       Not compulsory study by all students undergoing a course.

·       Provides a wider exposure to the students and teachers.

·       Helpful in providing career guidance also.

·       May deal with a particular topic only.

·       Not prescribed by any institution or organisation.

·       Book of consultation.