A teaching aid is a tool used by teachers, facilitators or tutors to help learners improve reading and other skills, illustrate or reinforce a skill, fact, or idea and relieve anxiety, fears, or boredom since many teaching aids are like games.

Teaching aids can be defined as any object used in the educational environment to support learning and to make life easier for the teacher – they support the professional practice of teaching. Common examples include timers, flip charts, world globes and flashcards.

Teaching aids refer to supplementary materials used by teachers for better teaching.

Teaching aids help the teachers to carry out interesting sessions for the students in a way that they can retain a maximum of their learning.

The aids come in different forms; some of the vital and common ones include videos, pictures, objects, and flashcards.