A State Level Workshop on Educational Evaluation for Secondary Teachers Educators and Personal of School Education, SCERT and SAMAGRA SHIKSHA, Nagaland for 3 days began with Deepika Nadig, Director of Shikshangan Initiatives, Pune and Vijay Gupta, Director of Shikshangan Initiatives, Pune as Resource persons at SCTE, Conference Hall, Kohima on 28th August 2024.
During the Inaugural program, Deepika Nadig, Director of Shikshangan Initiatives, Pune, said that Shikshangan initiatives presents a variety of sessions for teachers on specific pedagogical content to enhance teaching effectiveness such as shift from traditional teaching to deep understanding of concepts and skills, including critical thinking and problem solving, practice inclusivity by respecting individual student’s differences and keeping a lens on learning readiness, multiple interests & learning styles, elevate lesson plans with Effective Pedagogies of Accelerated Learning, Differentiated Instruction and Collaborative Teaching. Thereby unpack syllabus strands across the grades to gain insights on knowledge blocks that help with diagnostic and remedial programs.
Vijay Gupta, Director of Shikshangan Initiatives, Pune , highlighted that 75% graduates in our country are unemployed due to lack of skills required for certain jobs and that most of the schools including colleges have not been able to ensure good learning that is deep and not just rote memorization for every students who has access to school. He also elaborated on how to understand, how our brain works while problem solving or in learning and bring brain learning with different strategy. Shikshangan identified various ways to learn skills, which includes skills like – reading/listening with comprehension, taking notes using appropriate Graphic Organizers, problem solving, planning, seeking help etc.
Advisor, School Education & SCERT, Dr. Kekhrielhoulie Yhome graced the inaugural program. In his speech he said that there are many challenges faced by the educators in the current education system and so he encouraged the educators present at the workshop to improve the effectiveness of the teaching and learning process. Yhome mentioned that this year marks the 105th year of the State’s first Matriculation as well as the 100th year of the first Naga Graduate. He said that although Nagaland’s exposure to modern education is very recent, he is hopeful with the progress of the literacy rate in the State.
(Kazuhito, IA)
