Jammu: December 28:In order to leverage the goals of NEP-2020, "5 Days Capacity Building Training cum Workshop for Key Resource Persons (KRPs) on Content Enrichment in Science at Elementary Level" commenced today at SCERT J&K Divisional Office Jammu under the directions of Principal Secretary to Govt., School Education Department J&K, B.K. Singh (IFS) & under Director SCERT J&K, Prof. Veena Pandita, wherein KRPs of 5 districts ( Kishtwar, Doda, Ramban, Rajouri and Poonch) are participating.
The workshop was inaugurated by Surinder Kumar, Joint Director, SCERT J&K, Jammu in presence of Associate Professors Sh. N P Singh and Sh. Pawan Gupta, Sh. Deepak Sharma (Sr.Academic Officer) and Sh. Kuldeep Kumar (Academic Officer) I/C Trainings and Sh. Raj Kumar (Academic Officer).
The programme started with the welcome address by Ms. Irvinder Kour, Asstt. Professor, SCERT, J&K Jammu who highlighted the aims and objectives of the training workshop.
Surinder Kumar, Joint Director, SCERT J&K, Jammu put emphasis on the various initiatives of the Education Department from time to time and also encouraged the participating KRPs to identify/understand their role and responsibilities at grassroot level.He also put focus on content enrichment to enrich the content with the diversity of knowledge, so as to simplify the concept and make it understandable for its practical applicability in the field with the hope that this workshop will help each KRP to transform the learning from the workshop in the field.
Deepak Sharma (Sr.Academic Officer) also laid stress on attainment of learning outcomes but said that the same cannot be achieved without the enrichment of content and for that due focus on activity based learning has to be given to realise the goals of NEP-2020.
The Programme was Coordinated by Ms. Irvinder Kour, Asstt. Professor, SCERT, J&K Jammu whereas Ms. Sabeta Kohli (A.O) and Mtr. Nayeema Firdous (AO) acted as Associate Coordinator and Asstt. Coordinator respectively.
Sh. N P Singh Associate Prof. (CEO & Equiv.) also threw light on activity based learning and sharpening of skills to provide the quality content to the learners.