Three-day Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) “in-service training for teachers of Science and Mathematics” which commenced on Tuesday at Administrative Training Institute, Kohima, aims to make the subjects more interesting and innovative for students.
Addressing the teachers as chief guest, state mission director RMSA, Limawabang Aier, said the training would focus on how to make learning an innovative experience for the students.
He said the training would also focus on connecting school-based education to life outside the school so that learning science and mathematics subjects would be a joyful and meaningful activity for the students.
The mission director also informed the teachers that RAMA would be supplying mathematics kits to 161 government schools across Nagaland.
In keynote address, RMSA, joint mission director, Visiezolie Yashii, said the objective of conducting training was to enable children to be motivated and engaged in Science, Mathematics & Technology (SMT) through observation, experimentation, inference drawing, model building, rational reasoning, testability etc.
He said RMSA conducts in-service training and workshops for science & mathematics teachers in order to arm them with the latest strategies in managing the subject matters so that they become interesting to students and also becomes the first loved subjects.
The training aims at nurturing a spirit of enquiry and creativity love for science and mathematics and effective’s use of technology amongst children, added Yashii.
He also encouraged the teachers to create excitement, curiosity and spirit of exploration among the students while teaching mathematics and science. Yashii encouraged them to nurture schools to be incubators of innovation.
The training also dwelt on the usage of technology in the school environment to teach science and mathematics subjects under Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan. Teachers from all the districts are attending the three days training.