The program was organized under the patronage of Dr. Zabeer Ahmed, Director IIIM and guidance of Er. Abdul Rahim, Head IIIM (Br.) Srinagar under the flagship of IIIM Jigyasa program.
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.
Senior Principal Scientist Dr Khursheed Ahmad Bhat from IIIM briefed the teachers 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, Kupwara played a key role in coordinating this two days workshop.