Participants of the training cum workshop.
DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 26 (MExN): The first phase of the district wise training cum workshop on low cost / no cost teaching aids was organized by Breeze Women Welfare Association (BWWA), Nagaland in two venues of Niuland and Chumoukedima districts on November 24 and 25. The first day’s programme was conducted at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Nihokhu, Niuland while the second day’s programme was at Spring Valley School, Chumoukedima.
In her keynote address during the opening session of the training programme at JNV Nihokhu, the President of BWWA, Ani Yepthomi spoke on the sidelines of the National Education Policy (NEP) which necessitates the emphasis on Low Cost / No Cost teaching methodology. According to her, the primary aim of this programme is to encourage teachers and students to take keen interest in teaching and learning by utilizing low cost learning aids and to develop an ever learning attitude to transform the educational scenario. She hoped that the activities carried out during the training cum workshop session will be befitting and help in proper utilization of low cost / no cost materials to learn complex topics.
The next phases of the programme will witness a similar series of trainings and workshops for students and teachers of various districts in the upcoming weeks. This training programme is being catalyzed and supported by National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC), Department of Science & Technology, Government of India and in active collaboration with Kaziranga University, Jorhat and ThinkTac, Bangalore.
Breeze Women Welfare Association (BWWA), Nagaland is a non-profit NGO based in Dimapur which was started in 1982 by a group of like-minded women to voice out gender based concerns and also to alleviate the conditions of women and to empower them with education and employment opportunities. The pivotal agenda of BWWA since its inception has always been societal and educational reforms. In 2008, it contemplated on bringing within its folds the propagation of educational well being, more particularly science & technology, to the masses, especially to students and teachers of Nagaland and beyond.
The training sessions on low cost / no cost teaching aids is BWWA’s initiative to encourage teachers and students to take keen interest in teaching and learning by utilizing low cost learning aids. Low Cost or No Cost Materials are the teaching aids that require no cost or low cost and are available cheaply and developed by locally available resources. Low cost materials are developed from readily available materials to help the teachers in making complex concepts of difficult subjects interesting and concrete. Such teaching aids expedite the process of learning in the classroom, arouse the interest of students and also encourage students to try and make such teaching aid themselves and promote learning.
