150 kids participate in workshop on NCERT magazine

Tribune News Service

Jammu, November 24

The Department of Elementary Education, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi, in collaboration with the Department of School Education, Jammu, today organised a workshop on the publication of NCERT magazine “Firkee- Bachhon ki”.

Organised through the State Institute of Education ,Jammu, the workshop was aimed at eliciting creative genius of the children through different activities which included creative writing, drawing, poetry as well as storytelling.

A total of 150 students from different government schools of Jammu division participated in the workshop. Selected works of these children will find a place in the next issue of the magazine published half-yearly by the NCERT, New Delhi. During an interaction with the resource persons, Director School Education Jammu, Anuradha Gupta appreciated the efforts of the head, Integrated School Language programme, at the NCERT, New Delhi, Usha Sharma who was the expert resource person for the programme.

She stressed on the need for improving the functional aspect of language literacy among children and encouraged teachers to adopt such innovative practices in their own teaching as well, so that related competencies of the children could be raised.

Jaswinder Kour, Dr Urfana, Kiran Sharma and Nikhat Yasmeen were the other resource persons. The workshop was coordinated by Dr Usha Sharma and co- coordinated by Dr Sarita Sharma. Free copies of the magazine were also distributed among the children.