P1 Tution -- Necessary?
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thanks for replying, jetsetter and leeyl.
it is not easy to tutor kids. after working, have to rush home and wear a different hat. Can't survive long..haha...
i think child need to take ownership of his/her own education. They need to know why they need to study and how to make study fun and digestable in his/her own way. Nice on theory, but it is difficult on the implementation. Imagine talking to a 6-7 year on life philosophy, i think they will switch off the channel to me...:D -
lchunleo:
i think child need to take ownership of his/her own education. They need to know why they need to study and how to make study fun and digestable in his/her own way. Nice on theory, but it is difficult on the implementation. Imagine talking to a 6-7 year on life philosophy, i think they will switch off the channel to me...:D
The message has to be adjusted to the age. It's not too early to start with the broad outline. Initially, the parent will probably have to draw up the rules and supervise more closely, but always with the intention to eventually \"work themselves out of a job\". The child's individual drive and maturity will affect how it works too - my older girl needed very close supervision for 2 yrs, and then still needed some supervision for some years more, while my younger girl was supervised closely for about 2 weeks and was pretty much on her own by P3. -
jetsetter:
P1 compre still easy, ya she looks for keyword but sonetimes the answer is not so straight forward so even when she found the keyword but still can't answer correctly.bluegal6:
My child problem is she could read but she can't understand, thus unable to do problem sums. Please advise how to train her to understand what is the questions asking about.
OK with Eng Compre?
Underline key words. Use abbreviations for names. Use manipulatives. Role play (i.e. act out the story sum). Draw models. Translate to mother tongue if necessary (!), but not a long term solution beyond P2. Buck up on Eng.
And of cos weak english will affect her problem sums.... Really don't know how to brush up her english. -
bluegal6:
P1 compre still easy, ya she looks for keyword but sonetimes the answer is not so straight forward so even when she found the keyword but still can't answer correctly.jetsetter:
[quote=\"bluegal6\"]My child problem is she could read but she can't understand, thus unable to do problem sums. Please advise how to train her to understand what is the questions asking about.
OK with Eng Compre?
Underline key words. Use abbreviations for names. Use manipulatives. Role play (i.e. act out the story sum). Draw models. Translate to mother tongue if necessary (!), but not a long term solution beyond P2. Buck up on Eng.
And of cos weak english will affect her problem sums.... Really don't know how to brush up her english.[/quote] Saw you in another CW thread, so her Eng should be fairly ok
Probably she didn't catch the concept in class. Need to take her through sentence by sentence, using manipulatives if need be. I dunno what type of prob sums she's having difficulty with. There are a few types in P1: money, time, length, greater/smaller than, 4 ops. Unless she's doing those higher order/challenging types outside of her school scope?? Those might phrase the prob in a trickier manner, so many weak ones could lose the plot. -
No her English is not ok, infact her 1st and 2nd term test don’t do well… All subject slightly below school average. But she has being attending class enrichment since N2 thus now am trying out private tutor, hope can see improvement.
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bluegal6:
No her English is not ok, infact her 1st and 2nd term test don't do well... All subject slightly below school average. But she has being attending class enrichment since N2 thus now am trying out private tutor, hope can see improvement.
I think you should try to build up her reading habit. Language foundation is a long term practice n you can only see results in Upper Primary.
When she starts having a love for reading, her English will unconsciously improve.
Trust me - I tried on my 2 kids n it worked. -
My child enjoys reading tremendously. However, the more English books he reads, the more adverse he is to Chinese books. Even touching a Chinese book can cause a reaction in him. Have you experienced this?
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Is P1 tuition - necessary? tuition is the answer?
Only the parents themselves have the answer I think.
If you have spoken to parents of kids who did well in schools, you will find the similarities. I am talking about general type of families, not wealthy ones. They make adjustments and sacrifices for their children’s education journey. A scholar I know, of which his brother is also overseas scholar, from middle income family, Mother stopped working to play more active role in kids’ growing up. Father is just working class. not professional. These adjustments are choices in life. Would sending kids to tuition centres replace these actions? Parents be the one to answer.
Yes, not all families can afford to do these adjustments. The hard truth in life. But we can start small. Looking at current schedule and fill in the gaps and start small adjustments. At dinner time, put a plate of kids’ favourite dish, e.g. dumplings. Get kids to try distributing them to everyone so that all have the same share. We even totally switch to speaking mandarin at dinner time to show that we parents also learn it and like the language. One parent has to be the main mandarin speaker in the house for us to show our sincerity to our kids, let’s learn the language and like it.
For maths, it is a little more tricky, what method to use to teach will depends on kids’ style of learning. I realised one important thing. To follow school’s/MOE curriculum closely. e.g. multiplication, some P1 kids already started memorising times tables. I think memorising times table may hinder some kids learning of the concept. It suited my kids very well that they do not learn times tables at all. But follow the concept of grouping and multiple adding and see the pattern of how it starts from numbers up to 10, all the way to numbers up to 100. in a systematic and structured grouping of things. Lego has been great help for us.
As the saying goes,
It takes a village to raise a child
I believe in modern terms, it means more time and involvement required from parents and family, and to work closely with teachers and schools.
A parent whom had roller coaster ride in parenting, self reading up, even learnt a great deal from senior parents in this forum. Hope I can help others too. -
My opinion: Give tuition only if your child is failing badly at this stage. They are just in P1. They will catch up. My daughter has tuition only in Mandarin as we are a solely-English-speaking family.
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My opinion: Give tuition only if your child is failing badly at this stage. They are just in P1. They will catch up. My daughter has tuition only in Mandarin as we are a solely-English-speaking family.
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