Kids wander into wonder of imagination

The 2007 Schools Census from the ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) revealed that in August 2007, there were 3.4 million school students, up from 3.2 million in August 1997, with the number of teachers rising to over 266 800. 
There may be hundreds of thousands of teachers in Australia, but if you ask any parent or teacher about the concentration span of a primary school child, and the answer will be much the same.They will all say that primary school children are easily distracted and have short attention spans.Therefore it’s vital to have bright, striking, stimulating and relevant teaching aids around the classroom so that when little minds wander, they wander in the right direction. 
Teaching aids have been part of school life for decades, and it is interesting that despite the advent of the computer age, hundreds of thousands of teachers across Australia still depend on more traditional methods to increase incentive, encourage and reward students.
The vast range of products from Australian Teaching Aids which range from fun novelty stationery, laminated posters and charts, merit certificates and stickers of all shapes and sizes to academic benchmark books, have been adding value to primary school classrooms for over a quarter of a century.
There’s 8-year old Lachlan, carefully rubbing out his handwriting mistakes with a cute character pencil-top eraser and then carefully redoing his work with his novelty pencil.  He’s proud of his work, and his teacher is too.There aren’t any lollies for doing well, but Lachie doesn’t care.He gets a cool metallic sticker and a merit certificate which he then takes to the Principal for his signature.On his way there, his attention is caught by the laminated wall chart showing the chicken’s lifecycle.  He likes looking at it because he’s learning about the chooks outside in the shed.On the other side of the classroom, the teacher has stamped Kirsten’s maths book with a smiley face because the little learner had learned her times table off-pat from the wall chart.The stamper that the teacher is using can make 100 000 impressions, and can be re-inked.   
Australian Teaching Aids carries a huge range of different educational products, and continually updates its range to meet changing market needs.   From stickers, merit certificates, stampers, book markers and labels, novelty stationery, wall charts and posters to educational books, teaching aids are an integral part of the primary school experience.
Encouragement never goes amiss, whether it’s a quick text on a mobile phone, a pat on the back, a quiet word in an ear, or in the case of teachers and students, teaching aids for incentive and reward are just the ticket.