Short Report of the Programs conducted by the DEAA during Sep. and Oct. 2011 to be
up loaded on Council's website.
(i) Training of Master Trainers in Arts Education for Elementary Level of Education
(PAC code : 23.06)
Co-ordinator: Dr. Pawan Sudhir
A two-day workshop was held for the Key Resource Persons (KRPs) for the Training of
Master Trainers in Arts Education for Elementary Level of Education on 29-30 September,
2011, in NCERT Campus . Among participants there were key resource persons from North
East, Delhi, Maharashtra and Karnatka. Key Resource Persons from the North Eastern states
were specially invited to gain an understanding of the integration of art activities in the
teaching-learning transaction taking place in the classrooms at the elementary level, and stock
- taking of the existing resources with different states, to initiate the process of capacity
building of teacher educators and teachers, and thereof the implementation of Art Integrated
Learning. Various presentations were given by the teachers from the MCD schools who had
been implementing art integrated learning in their classrooms. A video conversation of Dr.
Shyam Benegal with Prof. Pawan Sudhir was also presented that helped the educators to
understand the importance of educating children through the medium of art activities. The
experiences presented by the speakers focused on the actualization of potential that children
would have through the training of their cognitive, affective and psychological domains of
development. The program is an effort to initiate development of the cascade model for the
capacity building of the different Regions in Art Education.
(ii) Training of Master Trainers for North East Regions – NERIE Shillong and Training
of Key Resource Persons for Art Education (PAC code : 23.06)
Co-ordinator: Prof. Pawan Sudhir, Head DEAA, NIE
Local Co-ordinator: Prof. Bagchi, Principal NERIE, Shillong
From 18/10/11 to 22/10/11 at NERIE, Shillong
A five day training programme for the Capacity Building of Master Trainers (MT) was
organized for the teacher educators of DIETs and SIEs/SCERTs of the North Eastern States
of India to help them understand the process of incorporating art activities in the process of
learning and development while facilitating classroom transactions at primary level.
The main focus of the workshop was to understand the role of arts as basis of teaching and
learning in the primary classes as it invigorates the mind and creates enthusiasm among
children towards learning. Learning using environmental observations makes it permanent
and leads to the holistic development of every child. Main objective of the program was to
provide teacher educators cum master trainers adequate exposure and training to understand
the important role of arts in learning and development of children at primary level and initiate
the process of training primary teachers on Art Integrated Learning in their respective
Districts and States.
Training was based on the package (seven modules) and was fully interactive in nature.
Sessions conducted included; ice breaker, Arts in day to day activities of the school, methods
and materials of arts education, arts and arts education, integration of arts with other subjects,
role of museum in education and evaluation (CCE in AIL). Involvement of the participants
was ensured through group work, rapid fire rounds, presentations and mock sessions
everyday. Prof Pawan Sudhir with the team of experts such as; Purnima Sampat, Asha Singh,
Ashok Arora, Sharbari Banerjee and Sulekha Bhargava, facilitated the process of clarifying
the concept of art integrated learning. There were films, power point presentations and actual
work of arts and crafts to motivate and guide Master Trainers through every session. They
were given time for adequate practice to plan and conduct activities for their role of MT on
AIL.
There were special assemblies by the teams of participants every day. Participants were able
to create A song of their own to appreciate the life and speciality of their States. They
enjoyed singing this song everyday. There were performances, puppet shows and displays by
the participants.
Each day got over with feed back from the participants on quality of the content and
facilitation during different sessions. All the participants were given a copy of the training
packge, focus paper and copy of the films and power point presentations to equip them for
the future trainings to be conducted in the subject.
Prof Bagchi and Dr Vijoy of NERIE Shillong provided all support to facilitated the team of
experts and the participants for making the program a success.
Program ended with the valedictory address by Prof. Bagchi, Principal NERIE Shillong,
sharing of experiences by the participants and awarding certificates to the participants.
Photos of the program;
Song of the Program