Jammu: 01-10-2022: Weekly Online Series of Story Telling sessions for young children “KATHASHILP” which is an initiative of SCERT J&K Divisional Office Jammu and organised by Population Education, Girls Education ECCE and Education for All Wing of SCERT-J&K in collaboration with EDUWEAVE Foundation, to promote Foundational literacy under NIPUN Bharat once again enthralled and enchanted it’s young audience and participants today on 1st of October 2022.This online initiative KATHASHILP has been running successfully under the able guidance of Joint Director SCERT Jammu and supervision of Sh.N.P Singh, Head, Population Education, Girls Education, ECCE & Education for All Wing for the last one year, with an objective to develop their foundational literacy skills and develop their interest in reading and writing.
Today’s storytelling session was inaugurated by Sh H.R.Pakhroo Joint Director, SCERT J&K Jammu who emphasised upon the significance of StoryTelling – a useful teaching strategy for developing students’ literacy and reading comprehension at the foundational stage and also appreciated the efforts of young children who starting with just listening of stories by the mentors initially, themselves have gradually grown up into proficient Storytellers.He also insisted on using such effective teaching strategies in classroom transactions which can optimise the language proficiency of the learners.
In today’s session, more than 100 students participated from various districts of Jammu Division. Children studying in early grades, from both public and private schools very enthusiastically narrated and read out interesting stories in 60 minutes Long Story Telling Session.
The session was co-ordinated by Mr Deepak Sharma, Sr.Academic Officer (Co-ordinator Kathashilp/NIPUN Bharat JK) and moderated by Ms Pallavi Joshi, SCERT J&K Divisional Office Jammu.
Other faculty members Prof Swaran Singh, Sh Pawan Kumar Gupta,Sh.Kishore Kumar, Mr Romi Kumar Associate Professors along with other Academic Officers also joined the session.
These story telling sessions are being organised on every Saturday by SCERT J&K Divisional Office Jammu to continue with its journey to strive hard in its endeavour to achieve the goals of NIPUN Bharat.
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