Engage Me Workshop in GSSS Raja Kheri, Haryana

New Delhi, October 19^th, 2016: CEMCA conducted a 3-day intensive training workshop for vocational trainers at GSSS, Raja Kheri from October 13^th to October 15^th 2016. As part of the workshop the trainers conducted various activities focusing on imparting Generic Employability skills to the school children of the Govt. Senior Secondary School in Raja Kheri, Haryana. About 90 students benefitted out of the workshop and the trainers were trained in the technique that have been developed by Worktree, an education charity based in Milton Keynes, UK, since 1992. 

This is the third of a series of 26 workshops planned as a second level intervention for implementing the ABLE-CEMCA model of getting the vocational trainers integrate Activity Based Learning in their regular teaching-learning style. This programme is aimed at Building Capacity of vocational trainers who impart training to school children in the 9^th, 10^th, 11^th and 12^th grade of government schools, in collaboration with Indian Institute of Skill Development (IISD) in Gurgaon.

The occasion was also graced by Sarpanch – Sri Jogender Malik, Jila Parshad, Panipat – Sri Dev Malik, and representatives of Youth community of the district, who highly appreciated the initiative and asked that it be conducted again in the school for the benefit of the students. This workshop served as a tool for mainstreaming Vocational Training in regular school education and brought about a sense of unity and pride amongst the students, trainers and teachers of the Govt. School.

The workshop on day 1 was conducted by Ms Sanjogita Mishra, Programme Officer, Skills CEMCA assisted by Ms Anupriya Khare as an expert resource person. On day 2 and 3 of the workshop, Ms Anupriya Khare, along with programme coordinator Mr Amandeep Vats, assisted as expert resource persons, while the sessions were conducted by the trainers undergoing the training. There was a systematic feedback process followed in order to make the trainers expert in the technique.

The participating trainers – Mr. Sandeep Deshwal, Mr. Sunil Kumar Saini, Mr. Pawan Kumar, Mr. Somnath, Mr. Nitin Goswami, & Mr. Mukesh Kumar Kaushik are now all set to run the Engage Me workshop in other GSSS in Haryana. There are currently nine more workshops scheduled for October, November and December, 2016.