BHUBANESWAR: With students getting to learn so many things from outside the classroom, it has been a challenge for teachers to know what to teach and what not. A two-day enrichment program at Mothers Public School(MPS) saw a panel of experts teaching teachers to face the challenges and tricks to deal with them at the same time make learning joyful.

MPS principal Poly Patnaik said, "The main objective of the programme is to enlighten teachers about different challenges they are facing in dealing with students. They also learn how to make continuous and comprehensive evaluation system more useful for assessing the co-scholastic behavior of children."

Chitra Ajay, a teacher, said, "Sometimes we get confused how much students know. Besides, with students from varied backgrounds it is difficult to teach the most challenging aspect of our job is meeting each individual student's needs. The complexity of issues that students bring with them to school requires teachers to have an understanding of behavioral conditions they previously did not need to consider."

Dr Neharika Vohra, faculty of IIM, Ahmedabad, emphasized on the alternate ways of looking at things, as in the same context we can see two different things. "This play a very important role in teacher-student relationship as preconceived perceptions can hamper a child's progress. A supportive environment is needed for proper learning to take place," she said.

"It has been important for teachers to be more creative to present things in an effective and joyful manner so that students would feel the newness in it. They must keep on discovering new ideas to keep students engaged at the same time evaluate and assess their abilities," said Snigdha Pattnaik, faculty XIMB.

Anita Acharya, a retired teacher, through a variety of games effectively demonstrated the concept on how games can inject fun into learning. Teachers enjoyed playing the educational games. They also realized how games can prove to be an effective aid in making learning easy and enjoyable.

As many as 50 teachers from different schools attended the workshop.