Tuition centers should not force parents to accept digital learning at full fees.
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Parents pov : we pay them to teach our kids, anything less in terms of what has been the "norm", we are "overpaying"
Teachers pov : takes more time to craft lessons for online to suit varying pace vs doing it in class. Fees should actually go up especially as students drop classes / enrolment due to covid. Bills still need to be paid with lesser students.
Centre owners pov : have a lot of fixed costs but enrolment is dropping and can’t think of a better model. Just hope things improve and parents realise they have no choice in the end! -
Jiang Education is the worse...
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/boycott-unfair-jiang
There were no personal calls made to me from Jiang Tuition Center, since late March 2020 when the government announced that enrichment centers had to be closed. My girl was a P6 student attending the session in Jiang Center. It is the worst choice that I had made for my kid to enrol her into the center. There was no call from the teacher to advise me what would be offered alternatively during the period that the center was closed. In fact, I was alerted subsequently via my sons’ teachers from Jiang Center, that there would be YouTube sessions being recorded for students to view. The YouTube sessions are for public viewing. I felt so cheated to pay for sessions that anyone could view. In fact, the videos are damn weird, featuring the teacher reading out passages to the screen. On 2nd May 2020, the P6 teacher finally got me via WhatsApp and rudely responded in the WhatsApp that I had finally responded to her message; and asked if I still wanted to know what were the arrangements for Jiang Tuition Centre? First they didn’t try to contact me, and dated to blatantly lie that they have been trying to call me. I went to check my call log, it didn’t register any missed call from Jiang Center. I called her and she kept rejecting my calls and said she was busy. Next they dare to ask if I would be interested to know about their arrangements during COVID-19 in May 2020 via WhatsApp. Didn’t I pay for service till end of May 2020? Subsequently, she sent me a PDF file to highlight there would be a ZOOM session on 5th May 2020, Tuesday. It was not clear when is the last session of such ZOOM session. When my girl went in on 19th May (Tuesday), she said the last ZOOM session was on 18th May 2020 (Monday). This was not told to me at all. When I asked if she could mail the books which my gal did not collect when the center was closed, she said got to wait till end of May 2020 or later. The lessons would have been over, what is the point of giving me back my materials which I had paid for after everything? When I asked her to mark a composition which I asked my girl to do for lesson 14, she said got to wait. I sent her the compo 3 times in email to remind her and 1 time via WhatsApp. Her response to my request for the marking is either NIL or asked me to wait.
She is the next in charge after the owner. She is taking charge of P6 cohort. If a teacher doesn’t listen and care about a student’s learning progress, how does she call herself a teacher? If she is the next in charge, her way of handling is a model to all other teachers in the same center. Any parent knows if there is any official channel to feedback to MOE? The center is mercenary! -
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Thank you, will check them out since they have online lesson so distance is less of an issue. Hopefully can see other parents come forward and share good quality and niche enrichment centre that deliver value.
All parents who are looking out for a better alternative elsewhere, a Chinese tuition centre to change to, can consider \"Etern\"
The owner, Mdm Chen, is a very patient, humble and gentle speaking, dedicated Chinese teacher. Those of you who know her, or who have sent your kids to her tuition class, will agree.
personal sharing experience -
Last year 2019, my child joined her tuition centre last minute very late,
only towards the last 2 months, from August all the way right up to PSLE, Mdm Chen had helped my child improved tremendously, in Higher Chinese (\"gao hua\").
Mdm Chen's daughter (Zhong ying yi),
was also amongst one of the Top National GCE O level past cohort batch, back then in 2011.
picture of her daughter (short hair)
https://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120110-320835.html
https://www.asiaone.com/print/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120109-320786.html
by the way, wish to highlight that i am in no way related to Mdm Chen.
is just that from my own personal experience, I find her a very good Teacher, rare to come by, hence feel that she deserved special mention.
Mdm Chen have the genuine heart to teach. We should give credit, when credit is due. And this is the time. :salute:
If you are interested, below is her online as well as regular Term time 2020 time-table.
can give her a call, ask how she can help your child, improve in his (her) Higher Chinese / Standard Chinese (PSLE / O-level)
https://www.eterneducation.com/class-schedule
For online lessons, Mdm Chen use interactive technology
Thank you, for your patience, in reading. -
phtthp\" post_id=\"1976828\" time=\"1589942475\" user_id=\"35251:
Thank you, will check them out since they have online lesson so distance is less of an issue. Hopefully can see other parents come forward and share good quality and niche enrichment centre that deliver value.
All parents who are looking out for a better alternative elsewhere, a Chinese tuition centre to change to, can consider \"Etern\"
The owner, Mdm Chen, is a very patient, humble and gentle speaking, dedicated Chinese teacher. Those of you who know her, or who have sent your kids to her tuition class, will agree.
personal sharing experience -
Last year 2019, my child joined her tuition centre last minute very late,
only towards the last 2 months, from August all the way right up to PSLE, Mdm Chen had helped my child improved tremendously, in Higher Chinese (\"gao hua\").
Mdm Chen's daughter (Zhong ying yi),
was also amongst one of the Top National GCE O level past cohort batch, back then in 2011.
picture of her daughter (short hair)
https://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120110-320835.html
https://www.asiaone.com/print/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120109-320786.html
by the way, wish to highlight that i am in no way related to Mdm Chen.
is just that from my own personal experience, I find her a very good Teacher, rare to come by, hence feel that she deserved special mention.
Mdm Chen have the genuine heart to teach. We should give credit, when credit is due. And this is the time. :salute:
If you are interested, below is her online as well as regular Term time 2020 time-table.
can give her a call, ask how she can help your child, improve in his (her) Higher Chinese / Standard Chinese (PSLE / O-level)
https://www.eterneducation.com/class-schedule
For online lessons, Mdm Chen use interactive technology
Thank you, for your patience, in reading. -
Dear Parent and Tutors,
As a father of 4 and being in the IT industry for 30 over years, my perspective is the current industry adoption of a merely a web conferencing tool such as Zoom or Google is inadequate. In essence, web conferencing is not the equivalent to the MOE’s Student Learning Space (SLS) nor the Blackbox (adopted by tertiary institutions in Singapore) which is a learning management system.
With the adoption of adoption of a learning management system, online learning can remove the many constraints of a traditional classroom. In fact, online learning can be better than a traditional classroom learning given the vast benefits of digital such as personalised learning, outcome based learning, self-regulated learning, interactive content learning and artificial embedded learning.
In the longer term, as has been encouraged by the Singapore government, tutors and tuition centres should disrupt their business model by going digital and reap the benefits of online learning. The new normal will entail the tuition industry to build a presence digitally and to adopt learning management system that will differentiate their teaching capabilities. Then the full fee is not an issue - in fact parent like myself will be more than willing as our children are well cared for.
Thank you. -
this online tuition will remain, even if no more covid-19
there are parents, who prefer online tuition to stay. Hence, some tuition centre have started create \"permanent online tuition \"
so, traditional tuition centre(s) with fixated mindset on \"face-to-face\" classroom teaching business-model, need to keep abreast with global changes taking place rapidly.
This covid-19 has caused many students, to enter digital age fast -
I think e-tuition should be fine for older students, those in secondary school and JC. However, tuition centres should at least provide basic services. They should print out and send the tuition notes to the student’s house by courier.
Which tuition centre is professional enough to provide such a service during this period? Only Mind Stretcher?
I heard some still charge full fee and expect parents to do all the printing. -
Yes online lessons are more suitable for secondary and jc students and perhaps those who have better self disciplined primary students.
Busy bees do print and send out materials. We also have a 15% discount for the 3rd term course.
Of course there were some teething issues in the beginning like late arrival of materials, calls or emails were either unanswered or took a long time to reply but after a week or two, things have more or less settled down.
Feedback from my child is lesson is still ok. Doesn’t make much of a difference to him between online and physical lesson but that’s only his opinion. Others might have other opinion. No right no wrong. -
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Many centers print and send by post or courier. Mind Stretcher is not the only one.
I think e-tuition should be fine for older students, those in secondary school and JC. However, tuition centres should at least provide basic services. They should print out and send the tuition notes to the student’s house by courier.
Which tuition centre is professional enough to provide such a service during this period? Only Mind Stretcher?
I heard some still charge full fee and expect parents to do all the printing. -
I heard from a colleague whose daughter goes to a relatively well-known but small scale tuition centre for IP science and Math tuition. Tuition starts at 10am but only receive the materials 30min before start of the tuition and expect students to have the notes printed.
Maybe smaller scale tuition centres = lack of professionalism. The bigger players are probably more structured except the one at Novena.
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