SCERT Director Vipralhou Kesiezie along with Activity and Competency Learning officials and staffs during the workshop at DUDA guest house Kohima.
Kohima, June 27 (MExN): An 8 day workshop on development of Activity and Competency Learning (ACL) cards, charts and materials for government school teachers organized by SCERT Nagaland and sponsored by SSA Nagaland concluded on Tuesday, June 25 at DUDA guest house Kohima.
Director, SCERT Vipralhou Kesiezie in his address as the chief guest commenting on the workshop said that the activity should be friendly and enjoyable to the children as they learn in the class room adding students’ activities in ACL should be relevant and practicable in our community and society. Emphasizing on the importance of employable through their knowledge Kesiezie said it must be helpful and meaningful for the students stating that 50% Indian graduates are not employable due to lack of applicable ability. He encouraged the teachers to be felicitators in the process of learning and also to evaluate time to time progress of the students. while advising the teachers to choose the activity wisely according to the need and capability of the children. He also encouraged the teachers to go beyond the syllabus and prescribed course for the benefits of the students while taking ACL classes.
Member secretary ACL Thungchibemo in his brief report of the workshop said ACL earlier called activity based learning (ABL) which stress the importance of competencies as goals and now called ACL in the state. He said ACL is a system where children learn at their own pace and better participation is ensured and the teachers’ role was to provide learning situation and opportunities where students are not chained to text book alone. He shared the detail implementation of ACL (plan of action), experimental phase, extension phase, evaluation phase and others.
The programme was chaired Kevi Liegise team leader ACL, special song was presented by B. Nyakhung ACL pilot teacher Longleng, sharing on behalf of the trainees by Kahili TOT EBRC Zunheboto and L.Alemtemsu Ao coordinator EBRC Mokokchung.
Around 25 teachers from all the districts participated in the workshop. The subjects taught were Mathematics, English, Environmental studies and Social studies for the standard 111. The team leader informed that ACL was already implemented in 137 government schools in the state and have planned to expand more. He said last year the workshop was conducted for standard 11 and next year will be for standard four it will continue till class 5
