A school in Murshidabad district is using its campus to make lessons easier and stress-free for students.
Laskarpur High School in Murshidabad is using the campus as an “educational gallery” by installing geometric shapes on the playground and a globe in one portion of the school.
The shapes have been installed in the play area so that children see them while playing.
A teacher can decide to sit with his/her students in the open and introduce them to concepts by showing them the three-dimensional structures, said the headmaster of the school.
The government school has around 4,500 girls and boys from classes V to XII, most of whom are first-generation learners.
Many of them might be in senior classes but their learning ability or knowledge of concepts is not up to the mark, said a teacher.
This problem was there even before the pandemic. The problem just grew in proportion during the two years of online classes, the teacher said.
“A visual impact helps create a much greater impact on the learning ability of students. They tend to pick up concepts faster. When they see the same thing around them every day, it will get registered in their brains. We intend to use the campus as an educational gallery that will help grow the interest of the children in studies,” said Mohammad Jahangir Alam, headmaster of the school.
A few years back, the school had installed a huge globe on the campus.
The walls of the classrooms were painted with maps of countries.
It helped the geography teacher explain better and the students to understand with ease.
“Concepts like the latitude and longitude or the position of the countries are much better explained with a globe,” said Alam.
Many students in the city have a globe at home. But for these children, whose parents are daily wage earners, having a study equipment at home is a luxury.
“Many of them receive no educational support from their home because their parents do not have the ability to teach them,” said a teacher.
Alam said family responsibilities, low awareness levels and the drive to earn money often force students to drop out of school.
Most of them start working as masons outside the state.