Mokokchung, 26 November (MTNews): 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 24 and 25 November 2023. The first day’s program was conducted at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Nihokhu, Niuland while the second day’s programme at Spring Valley School, Chumoukedimam a press release from BWWA received here said.
In her keynote address at the training program’s kickoff in JNV Nihokhu, Ani Yepthomi, the President of BWWA, emphasized the National Education Policy (NEP) and its call for an emphasis on Low-Cost/No-Cost teaching methodologies. She underscored the program’s primary goal—to inspire teachers and students to engage in teaching and learning by employing affordable learning aids, fostering a continual learning mindset to transform the educational landscape. Yepthomi expressed hope that the activities conducted during the training-cum-workshop will be beneficial, facilitating the effective use of low-cost/no-cost materials for understanding complex topics.
The subsequent phases of the program will feature similar series of training and workshops for students and teachers across various districts in the upcoming weeks. This initiative is catalyzed and supported by the National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC), Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, in active collaboration with Kaziranga University, Jorhat, and ThinkTac, Bangalore.
About BWWA
Breeze Women Welfare Association (BWWA), Nagaland is a non-profit NGO based in Dimapur which was started as a humble endeavor way back 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. But in 2008 there was a paradigm shift for the organization when 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.
Keeping in view the significance and importance of ‘learning by doing’ this training programme is being undertaken in several districts and venues of Nagaland in order to educate the teachers, who will then carry the message from the workshop forward and encourage students to learn by displaying their low cost teaching aids in classroom and encouraging students to make their own low cost learning aids.
