Materials and Methods for Producing Basic Instructional Support Resources for Teaching Creative Arts in Zohe Evangelical Presbyterian Primary School, Yendi-Ghana

Abstract

The study is aimed at assisting teachers in Zohe Evangelical Presbyterian Primary School in Yendi, Ghana to identify and prepare available instructional support resources from the immediate environment for the teaching of Creative Arts. A total of six (6) teachers and one head teacher were selected by the use of purposive sampling technique; and were guided on how to identify and prepare TLMs to be able to teach Creative Arts. The head teacher was only interviewed to solicit his views in order to authenticate data retrieved from the six classroom teachers. Observation and interview were used to obtain data for the study. Findings reveal that the classroom teachers did not teach Creative Arts with appropriate resources, meanwhile there were a lot of instructional support resources within the teachers’ immediate environment to be explored as TLMs. Majority of the teachers were untrained teachers and were not competent to teach the Creative Arts with TLMs. Through the researchers’ guidance, the teachers were able to identify and prepare the available resources within the environment to teach Creative Arts. The study therefore provides ideas and strategies that teachers who have no specialist training in Visual, Performing and Literary Arts could tap to prepare TLMs for teaching Creative Arts in primary schools.

Keywords: Instructional materials, creative arts; primary school; Zohe-Yendi, Ghana