SCERT organises workshop on ‘Content Enrichment in Science at Elementary Level’

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 28: In order to leverage the goals of NEP-2020, five-day capacity building training cum workshop for Key Resource Persons (KRPs) on `Content Enrichment in Science at Elementary Level’ began today at SCERT J&K Divisional Office Jammu.
The workshop was inaugurated by Surinder Kumar, Joint Director, SCERT J&K, Jammu, in presence of Associate Professors N P Singh and Pawan Gupta, Deepak Sharma (Sr Academic Officer) and Kuldeep Kumar (Academic Officer) I/C Trainings and Raj Kumar (Academic Officer).
In his inaugural address, Surinder Kumar 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 Irvinder Kour, Asstt Professor, SCERT, J&K Jammu whereas Sabeta Kohli (AO) and Nayeema Firdous (AO) acted as Associate Coordinator and Asstt Coordinator, respectively.
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.
R K Chadda, Dr Madhu Sharma, Kuldeep Gupta, Dr Balgar, Ekta Nanda, Harpreet Singh, Amol Sharma, Jawaz Iqbal, Sunil Sharma and Sachin Goel are acting as Resource Persons in the workshop.