Srinagar May 03: A two days training workshop for the capacity building of Science teachers concluded today at Army Goodwill School, Wyne Kupwara. The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK and the CSIR – Indian Institute of Integrated Medicine (IIIM) jointly organized this training workshop with the support of Army Goodwill School (AGS) on 2nd and 3rd May. Total 49 Science teachers from various government schools of Kupwara / Tangdhar participated along with the teachers from AGS, Kupwara.
Mr Hemant Lagvankar, a key resource person of this training programme said, “The aim of this teacher development programme was to give teachers the new techniques for delivering and engaging concepts in Science effectively. Teachers were introduced to proven active learning techniques that can be applied easily in a science context, helping students to develop their conceptual understanding. Teachers got the opportunity to learn some practical science experiments that could be adapted to be used in any setting, including those with no traditional laboratory facilities”.
Participating teachers thoroughly enjoyed the proceedings when they actively learned the techniques like Dart, Tarsia, Dominoes, etc. Deputy Chief Education Officer of Kupwara – Mr Manzoor Ahmed was present on this occasion. Mr Ahmed urged teachers to take these innovative techniques into the classroom and make Science teaching effective and joyful for the students.
The Senior Principal Scientist Dr Khursheed Ahmad Bhat from IIIM was present on this occasion and he briefed about the objectives and various educational activities which are being conducted by IIIM through Jigyasa programme. The Jigyasa programme is a regular activity of CSIR for student-scientist interaction. Under this programme, scientists visit schools for outreach, students visit CSIR labs for hands-on training, live demonstrations of various scientific experiments / facilities, and student residential programme, etc.
Dr Asha Chaubey, Senior Principal Scientist, IIIM and Lt. Col. Rajiv from AGS played a key role in coordinating this two days workshop.
