Deciding whether your child would benefit from tuition and then choosing the best tutors, can be a daunting task. So how should you set about it? As tuition can be expensive you should understand what it can achieve because tuition can help children in a number of ways but it's not all about getting the best tutors.
Tuition is a considerable investment in time and money. So you need to choose the best possible tuition. Making the right choice is important from the vast range of tuition schemes available. So ask yourself some important questions and do some research on the center if time allows you.
There are many different types of tuition service available. So make sure you get the service best suited to your child's needs. I have grouped these into several categories, each one having something different to offer.
One-To-One Tuition
So you think one-to-one is the best? Perhaps you think it must be because it is usually the most expensive! It may be true in the short term, just before exams but generally the tutors are dominant, and one-to-one tuition does not allow the child to enjoy learning independently, and it does not provide a forum for discussion, to express their opinions, their difficulties, or to interact with other children in the learning process. Moreover, the best tutor and teacher assess through watching children interacting with each other, discussing problems, and working and playing with other children.
It can be effective, and certainly children should make progress. However, in addition to cost, it is harder to make the sessions ‘lively' and ‘fun'. Teachers will spend a large part of their time waiting for the child to finish their work. And it is also difficult to foster independence in one-to-one tuition. Children often stop thinking through concepts and just wait for the teacher to teach, and explain it to them. In the long term, this is unhelpful. It is possible to find very cheap one-to-one tuition in some areas, but whilst this might appear attractive, parents should ask about the qualifications, and the skills of such tutors.
Small Group Tuition
It is usually cheaper than one-to-one tuition, and so makes better use of the teacher's time. It also provides children with the opportunity to share ideas, and for the teacher to use competition and games to enhance the learning of each child. As the session comes alive in this way it becomes easier for teachers to assess, build confidence and inspire children.
Between four and six children per tuition group is an ideal number as this allows good group dynamics and individual attention. If a group falls below three it becomes difficult to encourage group dynamics.
A large group cannot guarantee, and often fail to provide each child with the individual attention they need and often seems no different to an ordinary school classroom. If your child is having difficulty then putting them in this situation is likely to make the emotional barriers worse.
Large Group Tuition
There are many large group tuition centres in some areas, some with between 15 and 30 children. Again, some of these groups do not use qualified tutors. So whilst these centres are often cheaper per session, the parent should ask whether the tuition provided is able to provide something different to what is being offered at school. If your child is not achieving their academic goals or has a barrier to learning in large classrooms in school, why should large tuition groups be more effective?
E-Learning Program
One of the current and popular learning method available. This system require the child to log in into a website where worksheets are provided for the child to do. It is interactive in nature and require output participation from a child.Children are then expected to work through them on their own. The amount of teaching done is minimal. The success of this system is proven with the excellent results students obtained and the number of excellent testimonials by parents attesting to this method.
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