Jamshedpur Public School on Friday organised a workshop for teachers , on ‘learning with Understanding’. The purpose of this workshop being 'Sharing of Best Practices' among schools in Jamshedpur, the workshop focussed on two best practices.
The first being Multidisciplinary approach to Project Work, resource person for which was Namita Agarwal, principal Jamshedpur Public School along with a team of three teachers. Following a cross-curricular approach in schools in case of project work, ensures optimum utilisation of student /teacher skills as well as knowledge through collaborative methods. A team of teachers may formulate in-school, inter-subject projects. For example, schools can assign a maximum of two comprehensive group projects at each level, covering each of the five major subjects i.e. English , Hindi, Maths, Science, Social Sciences", A potential cure for compartmentalisation is multidisciplinary learning, wherein the skills, knowledge, and modes of thinking are rejoined together to form whole projects.
The second area was ‘Mind Mapping’ ,the resource person for which was Sunita Sinha , Principal Gulmohur High School along with Priti Sinha.Mind Mapping taught the teachers on how to develop a topic in the classroom by gradually introducing concepts/characters in order to make learning simple and effective.