Tuition centers should not force parents to accept digital learning at full fees.

[octbride]

Hi

Can I check If tll provides a better online learning platform for secondary school? Any recommendation ?

[zac's mum]

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Hi
Can I check If tll provides a better online learning platform for secondary school? Any recommendation ?

Not sure what u mean by online learning platform. The kids have to log in to a learning portal with their individual login + password, inside it’s a bit like SLS with all the subjects separately.

Inside each subject there is text discussion thread for the teacher to remind them what homework to do etc & kids can reply/upload hw there if they wish. Or can email/WhatsApp to the teacher if teacher willing to give number.

Video conferencing has moved to Zoom but password protected. Teachers use screen share/annotate function during the lesson, so u don’t actually need to print the notes if u don’t want. Can screenshot it for your own reference.

[octbride]

Thanks

Do kids really able to benefit from online tuition? I got a bad experience from jiang edu.

[zac's mum]

I won’t say it’s fully beneficial compared to a F2F lesson. Online platform has limited opportunities for interaction.


Those kids who are very self-disciplined learners (usually secondary school level onwards), they can learn easily from webinar-style teaching (lecture-style, followed by short Q&A time). Teacher assumes the kid is interested enough to pay attention.

For primary school level, the teacher needs to put in a LOT of effort to welcome interaction & feedback, to make sure that ALL the kids are really there, really listening, really understanding. Otherwise the money that parents pay is literally down the drain…

Even in school Zoom meetings, I notice that the better teachers will call each kid by name to answer specific questions, not permitting any one of them to slack or hide somewhere or toggle to another window to play computer games.

[2eclipse]

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Which centre still charging full fee?

Anyway, just my opinion. I have printer at home, I don’t mind printing even though money is indeed tight for my family right now. I am thinking of whoever is that pitiful staff who “needs” to report to work at the tuition center, just to print out stacks and stacks of worksheets to mail out. When govt tells us all to WFH unless absolutely necessary. Is printing documents for customers really essential that you need to risk catching Covid when commuting to work? :?[/quote]

Still have. Just that when others do not mention, we are not aware. Perhaps the bigger players are the ones who will bother to provide the extra touch. Smaller ones couldn’t be bothered.

I can’t remember the name of the tuition centre that my colleague mentioned. Vividly remember that she said the centre specialises in Math and Science tuition only, very popular among IP and JC students because owner/ teachers were previously teaching in a popular IP school.

[MerlionInGermany]

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zac's mum\" post_id=\"1980737\" time=\"1592050136\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=1980737 time=1592050136 user_id=53606]Which centre still charging full fee?

Anyway, just my opinion. I have printer at home, I don’t mind printing even though money is indeed tight for my family right now. I am thinking of whoever is that pitiful staff who “needs” to report to work at the tuition center, just to print out stacks and stacks of worksheets to mail out. When govt tells us all to WFH unless absolutely necessary. Is printing documents for customers really essential that you need to risk catching Covid when commuting to work? :?

Still have. Just that when others do not mention, we are not aware. Perhaps the bigger players are the ones who will bother to provide the extra touch. Smaller ones couldn’t be bothered.

I can’t remember the name of the tuition centre that my colleague mentioned. Vividly remember that she said the centre specialises in Math and Science tuition only, very popular among IP and JC students because owner/ teachers were previously teaching in a popular IP school.[/quote]

Yes, there are def still centers charging full fees. Even though I know only a handful, there are so many tuition centers in Singapore, surely there are more than this handful that I know, that are still charging full fees.

Some centers dont have the scale or simply dont want to.

[phtthp]

FTF tuition, can resume this Friday (19 June) Phase 2


https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-phase-2-of-reopening-to-start-from-jun-19-social-12835758

[John Lim]

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FTF tuition, can resume this Friday (19 June) Phase 2

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-phase-2-of-reopening-to-start-from-jun-19-social-12835758

:udawoman: :udaman: :rotflmao:

[Cloud Cloud]

But difficult to maintain safe distancing?

[phtthp]

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But difficult to maintain safe distancing?[/quote]

can ask your tuition centre, is it alternate empty seat arrangement, that type ?

probably, tuition centre need to re-arrange seating arrangement, to space out the tables and chair