When selecting instructional material, the teacher should primarily consider which factor?

• A. The material must be new and skillfully made.
• B. It must be suited to the lesson objective.
• C. The material must stimulate and maintain students' interest
• D. It must be updated and relevant to Filipino setting.

Answer: (B)

The main idea is to choose instructional material that directly supports what you aim to achieve in the lesson. When a resource is aligned with the lesson objective, everything students do with it—from reading, observing, and practicing to discussing and solving—moves them toward demonstrating the specific skill or knowledge you want them to gain. This alignment guides what tasks you include, how you scaffold learning, and how you design assessment, so the material actually helps students reach the intended outcome.

Engagement and novelty matter, but they don’t guarantee learning unless they also align with the objective. A resource can be fresh and interesting yet fail to develop the targeted skill or understanding. Similarly, making materials relevant to the local Filipino setting or keeping them up to date is valuable, but those qualities should serve the objective. They’re means to support learning, not substitutes for ensuring the material helps students achieve the stated goal.

For example, if the objective is to analyze a character’s motive in a story, the material should provide passages and prompts that require those analyses, along with guiding questions and rubrics that target that skill. Materials that are aligned will naturally facilitate assessment of whether the objective was met.