CHAPTER 2 SCHOOL SYSTEM AND EDUCATIONAL CONTENTS AND METHODS
2 Educational Contents and Methods
(3) Educational Methods
b. Utilization of Instructional Equipment
In elementary, lower secondary and upper secondary schools,
various kinds of teaching materials and tools are used in addition to textbooks,
and moreover, utilization of instructional equipment has become popular in recent
years. Table 2-4 indicates that the instructional equipment has been remarkably
popularized in elementary, lower secondary and upper secondary schools. Particularly
slide projectors, overhead projectors, TV sets, in-school broadcasting and telecasting
equipment and tape recorders are owned by the majority of schools. In view of
the popularization of instructional equipment, the need to study ways of more
effective use of this equipment has been realized and in-service training courses
for teachers have been undertaken for this purpose.
The proportion of schools utilizing NHK's school programs in
classroom teaching, through their TV sets and in-school broadcasting and telecasting
equipment, is shown in Table 2-5. It indicates that the rate of TV school program
utilization has been growing steadily in all types of schools in recent years,
and is particularly high in elementary schools. The rate of school program utilization
had once been in a downward trend in elementary schools, lower secondary schools
and full-time upper secondary schools, but turned upward again in 1974 in lower
secondary schools and full-time upper secondary schools.
Table 2-4. Popularization or Instructional Equipment in
Local Elementary, tower Secondary and Upper Secondary Schools
Table 2-5 NHK TV and Radio School Program Utilization Rate
