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TRAINING
Orientation of Master Trainers of ST Category for Activity-Based
Teaching in Science at the Upper Primary Stage
The programme was formulated to orient Master Trainers of ST Category for
activity-based Science Teaching at the upper Primary Stage. In all 24 participants
from Navodaya Vidyalayas and Kendriya Vidyalayas situtated in different States
and UTs which have high population of STs such as Chhattisgarh, Assam, Andhra
Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Orissa,
Rajasthan, Tripura, Gujarat, Delhi and West Bengal attended the programme.
All the participants were from ST category and teaching Science at Upper Primary
Stage. The 5-day training programme was organised from 9 to 13 August 2010
at NCERT, New Delhi. During the orientation of the master trainers, exemplar
integration of the activities with teaching-learning process was presented. In some
cases demonstrations were made and in some, teachers performed the activities
themselves. The doubts of the teachers were removed on the spot. One session
was devoted to activities related to learning of our environment. The importance
of project work related to environment at upper primary stage was highlighted
by taking examples from project books developed by NCERT. The participants
were oriented for Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) of the
students. They were motivated to put the students in different grades in respect
of the achievements. In the last, feedback from the participants was collected for
improving the future programmes.
Orientation of Trainers on Activity Based Teaching in Mathematics at
the Upper Primary Stage
A five-day training programme was organised from 25 to 29 October 2010 at
NCERT, New Delhi to orient the teachers of upper primary stage of CBSE affiliated
schools of NCR, State boards of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan
and Uttar Pradesh. In this programme a total number of 21 master trainers
participated. The master trainers oriented were expected to orient other teachers
of their schools. During the sessions the following topics have been covered. These
are Nature of Numbers, Number Pattern, Environment Education, Importance
of Mathematics Laboratory, Teaching of Mathematics and its application, Data
Handling, Algebra, Patterns in Geometrical figures, Mensuration, Teaching of
Mathematics through Activity Method, Upper Primary Mathematics Kit, and
Visuals etc. The transaction of the above mentioned topics during the training
were based on NCF-2005 guidelines. Activity methods and games were given
more priority in transacting the different concepts of Mathematics. Ample
examples were given to correlate the problems in Mathematics with the daily life
examples. There were interesting discussions among the participants and
resource persons during the sessions.
Orientation of Master Trainers in Mathematics at the Secondary Stage
A five-day orientation programme was held at NIE, New Delhi, from 21 to 25
February 2011. Thirty participants participated in the programme from various
organisations, such as KVS, NVS, Directorate of Education (Schools), Delhi, DAV
Public Schools and State of Punjab. The content areas covered during this
orientation programme were – Congruency and Similarity of triangles, Circles,
Statistics, Probability, Mensuration, Trigonometry, Coordinate geometry,
Euclidean Geometry, Polynomial and Equations and Mathematical Modelling
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