Challenges

- One of my biggest drawbacks or challenges is that am connected to a school who thinks of this as EXTRA curricular activity rather than co-curricular activity. There are a lot of do's and dont's for the children., as compared to if I was to take individual workshops.
-Weather.Its been raining soooooo much in Delhi that my outside sessions have stopped.
- The children are very young and sometimes don't understand the instructions am giving them or its bizarre so they don't know how to react to the instructions. So the results am getting are limited.
- The exposure of the child is very limited, so I had to start at the very very basic level as opposed to doing these workshops in a progressive school where the kids are taught to think in a different way. In a way this is good as I am giving them this exposure
- I feel their creativity is limited and so is their imagination. Even in their art classes in school the child is not allowed to draw from imagination but has to copy what the teacher has drawn on the board.
- They are so used to being spoon fed and so used to structure that they cant come in and come out of it smoothly.
- They have no Grey in their lives everything is black or white, right or wrong there is no maybe. For instance if I tell them who told u the air s blue it can be pink also they think am joking or teasing them and they say "No how can it be, that is wrong."
- The curriculam is so cramped up even for subjects there is only half an hour allotted and they rush between syllabuses and the child cant retain anything and in the end just ends up mugging up for tests.
- To get them to do something right, either you have to grade them or make them do a competition where there is a prize in the end they are not used to doing things for themselves. They were very surprised to know that the drawings I was making them do I was not going to give them "Marks." So, they went wild. Whenever marks come they become "Formal" and "Right."