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Over 350 teachers at science workshop.
The India and Australia Education Council jointly invited Dr. Ken Silburn to conduct a workshop on making teaching science more engaging and interactive. Through visualisation and hands on experiments, private and govt school teachers learnt a completely new way of teaching science in classrooms.
On Friday and Saturday approximately 350 science teachers from200 private schools and 150 from government schools themselves became students as they participated in a workshop that spoke about teaching science.
The Australian High Commission had roped in noted science educator Dr Ken Silburn who held the workshop for 2 days and took the teachers through the rigours of making learning science in the classroom experiential and exciting.
The workshop organised for the 50 private schools of National Progressive School's Conference (NPSC) school teachers was conducted at Ahlcon International, Mayur Vihar on Saturday. The workshop schedule was divided into 2 sessions of 3 hours each. First up, Silburn conducted an activity where he asked the participants to close their eyes and imagine their favourite food and destination, reinforcing the principle that our brain responds to visual stimuli.
The participants were made to conduct a hands-on experiment with a paper rocket made from an A4 size paper. Air was pumped into the rocket to launch it. This simple experiment depicted air pressure, which made the rocket to move ahead. Several such activities were the highlight of the workshops.
"The workshop is being run under a programme between Australia and India Education Council," said Ben Sakker Kelly, first secretary, education, Australian High Commission. "Silburn is an eminent science teacher who is in India to share some of his experience in getting kids interested in science and hopefully getting kids to look at science as a career," he said.
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