A one-day workshop for teachers was conducted by the Producer Responsibility Organisation on the Karo Sambhav ( Make Possible ) movement at Vishal Bharati School, Paschim Vihar, on 29 July 2019.
The Karo Sambhav School Programme has been designed to create awareness on critical environmental issues including e-waste and inspiring students to adopt preventive environmental strategies in their daily lives. The programme is designed to create an environmental movement across schools, with teachers playing a leading role.
Ms Ekta Chitkara and Ms Sarah Khanna represented The Indian School at the event which saw the participation of 25 teachers from several schools of Delhi- NCR.
Resource person, Ms Swati Ganguli skillfully engaged the participants in a discussion on e-waste management. She shared with the audience the salient features of this commendable initiative by like-minded individuals, to create inclusive, sustainable, scalable and transparent systems for e-waste handling in India.
Ms Ganguli began by focusing on the major challenge for schools to create an education approach that is agile, adaptable and in-tune with the lives of its students beyond the classroom. The stakeholders have identified the need to create opportunities that allow students to become aware of real-worldproblems and makes them future- ready.
The speaker elucidated that this programme was designed to deploy contemporary pedagogical practices in the classroom to develop 21st century skills of real-world problem solving, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity, communication and ICT competencies.
A curriculum consisting of a toolkit of activities intended from class 1 onward has been prepared. The founders have created an app which is to be downloaded to upload activities.
The workshop served as an eye-opener, enriching and empowering. It paved the way for setting up of an integrated formalised e-waste management chain in collaboration with schools .
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