P1 Tution -- Necessary?
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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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it takes a village to raise a child…totally agree with that.
i am hopeless coaching kids in their school work. due to financial constraints, we can’t afford to get tutor for all subjects except english. fortunately hubby can teach math and science. now son helps his sister with history and geography esp those inferential, structured and essay type of questions. for me, i plan her revision. -
Same - tuition is costly, and also, i feel it adds pressure to the kid, although it is good to learn in a peer environment. For now, we just try to encourage and improve her appetite for learning, and learning on her own and with parents, without (hoping to) require tuition…
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Coke Chan:
Same - tuition is costly, and also, i feel it adds pressure to the kid, although it is good to learn in a peer environment. For now, we just try to encourage and improve her appetite for learning, and learning on her own and with parents, without (hoping to) require tuition..
I find it quite tough when me and hubby are not professionals. somehow, there's so many ways to do it wrongly and our child is not moving in the right direction. We're afraid that a failed primary education would bring failure to subsequent levels (sec, tertiary etc)... looks like we better be hunting a good tuition centre -
I think it all depends on the kid. If he/she fail the subject then maybe you consider tuition if yoi cannot teach the subject yourself. More important is to cultivate learning and reading habit from young. Teach the child to do homework and study/read at fix time, say after dinner. Play time can be after that. Don’t let the kid rely too much on tuitor. Need to learn how to learn.
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I think it depends on the child. some children can just study on their own. very funny. my brother’s children are like that, and my brother and his wife doesn’t even cultivate learning at home. totally don’t understand this.
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Hello! I think it depends on how you define tuition. If tuition to you means assessment book after assessment book or rote learning, I would say no. But if the tuition model is meant to cultivate a sense of curiosity and an eagerness to learn, then yes, definitely necessary to start in P1
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