P1 Tution -- Necessary?
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AppleCrumble:
For your information, I was pleased with his results but his parents were not that pleased with his English score. The marks were largely lost due to careless mistakes. Encouragement is consistent for this child and he has a balanced life style with other activities as well. The kid is a go-getter, hates to lose to his classmates.
May I ask - What is so 'poor boy' about his score? If this is his best, then accept it and celebrate with him for his effort put in. It will do wonders to his self-esteem and confidence. In fact, these are EXCELLENT scores.TheAnswer:
Hello everyone,
Being in the education industry for a considerable number of years, I noticed that schools cover very minimal stuff and they expect a lot during the exams. My P1 student recently completed his final tests for English, Maths and Chinese.
Chinese - 100
Maths - 99
English - 94
Yet he is not the first in class. According to him, there are other students who did better than him in Maths and English. Poor boy! He is now getting ready for P2. At this point struggling with ECW and English open ended comprehension and also getting really puzzled with some of the challenging problem sums. Oh well.. Is tuition necessary? To each his own opinion.
Is there a need to be first in class? There is only 1 such person in a class of 30 (for P1 and P2). Does it mean that the rest of the 29 in class must feel miserable since they are not first?
Our primary school education is a progressive one. Difficulty level increases as you go up the primary school ladder. So, it's normal that this boy finds his P2 work more challenging than P1. But this does not mean that we must head to the Tuition Centre once things get difficult.. -
Balanced lifestyle with tuition for English, Maths and Chinese as well as other activities! So the boy doesn’t sleep very much?
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TheAnswer:
Naturally, parents will feel frustrated when they see their kids 'donate' marks due to carelessness. However, unless the kids learn for themselves to be more careful during exams/test, no amount of parents'/teachers' nagging or practicing numerous test papers is going to solve the problem.
For your information, I was pleased with his results but his parents were not that pleased with his English score. The marks were largely lost due to careless mistakes. Encouragement is consistent for this child and he has a balanced life style with other activities as well. The kid is a go-getter, hates to lose to his classmates.
It's human to focus at the 'lowest' score of the 3 subjects instead of the '2 higher' ones. There's always this constant obsession for the 'one sausage with 2 eggs' (100) mark, instead of determining if the kid has progressed in terms of learning and if he has done his best.
Since this boy is a 'go-getter', then it will not be a question of 'not doing his best'. 一山还有一山高， there will always be someone better than you, in one way or another. Similarly, you are better than another person in some areas. There's no need to compare. Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses. -
I think tuition is necessary. My DD has been in a centre learning every since last year. Signed up pre-pri1 class. And she is doing very well. She had games and other activities to get her to learn. So to her she is having fun learning and not like a boring class that e teacher just keep teaching in the centre…
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Hi, can anybody recommend me any gd tution ctr ard Redhill area ? Looking at English and Maths subjects mainly. Thks :please:
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TheAnswer:
I agree that kids do need parental support and some kids need some pushing. But every child is different and every family situation is different as well. I do not agree that we are without a choice. To begin with, we can choose (to some extent) what kind of school to enrol our children into. We can choose how to interpret his results. We can choose how competitive we want to be. We can choose how much time he has for leisure and what he does in this time. And we can certainly choose whether he needs to have tuition or not.Hello,
I think kids needs to be pushed to perform at their best. Work diligently throughout the year. Ideally parents should work hand in hand with the tutors and their child. I feel that building good foundation when they are younger is definitely necessary. If not how to cope when science comes along at P3 level?
Singapore is far too competitive. We are without a choice.
PM me if you require assistance.
My son had similar results to your student in his Primary 1 final \"tests\" (but swop the english and chinese!). I have no clue what his class position is and I honestly don't care. Say he was second and the boy ahead of him had 1 mark more - does that make him less smart, less capable? Its only primary 1! Oh and he has no tuition and we have no plans to start any. I've told him that if he feels he needs help let me know but he needs to be responsible for his own learning achievements. Doing well / improving in school tests and exams teach the kids that as they sow, so shall they reap. They provide feedback to the child and parent as to whether what they are doing is working or not.
I sometimes think that doing very well academically is not a good thing. The world doesn't work like school. You don't get the best jobs or the highest pay for being the smartest person in the room. In the new world order, you don't even get job security. To me, my job as a parent is to teach him the value of hard work, perseverance and delayed gratification, to help him discover his talents and passions, and to support him in pursuing them. -
My kids have had tuition in math and mtl since p1 because these are their weakest subjects and dh and i can’t teach them. We went to school in the 70s and the maths today is very different. textbooks help a little but not for all questions.
Tuition is a personal choice. If your child needs help and no one at home can help, then a tutor is the next best option.
It’s important for children to get the basics right from p1 so that it’ll be easier for them to handle the later levels. Each level adds on to the one before. -
sometimes it is not easy to teach our own kids.
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I just started DS on P1 Chinese tuition coz his Chinese oral really cannot make it. So it’s 1x a week 1hr/session. I’m not sure if this is the standard duration for home tuition; is it enough? But what I’m concerned is how do your home tutors teach? Do they only use assessment books to teach? Or do they have an objective to teach certain skills before every lesson? (of course after assessing the child and knowing his strengths and weakness) Do we parents need to tell the tutor what we want them to focus on etc? Would like to hear your inputs. Thanks!
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fable:
fable: didn't see this post last time!.
I agree that kids do need parental support and some kids need some pushing. But every child is different and every family situation is different as well. I do not agree that we are without a choice. To begin with, we can choose (to some extent) what kind of school to enrol our children into. We can choose how to interpret his results. We can choose how competitive we want to be. We can choose how much time he has for leisure and what he does in this time. And we can certainly choose whether he needs to have tuition or not.
My son had similar results to your student in his Primary 1 final \"tests\" (but swop the english and chinese!). I have no clue what his class position is and I honestly don't care. Say he was second and the boy ahead of him had 1 mark more - does that make him less smart, less capable? Its only primary 1! Oh and he has no tuition and we have no plans to start any. I've told him that if he feels he needs help let me know but he needs to be responsible for his own learning achievements. Doing well / improving in school tests and exams teach the kids that as they sow, so shall they reap. They provide feedback to the child and parent as to whether what they are doing is working or not.
I sometimes think that doing very well academically is not a good thing. The world doesn't work like school. You don't get the best jobs or the highest pay for being the smartest person in the room. In the new world order, you don't even get job security. To me, my job as a parent is to teach him the value of hard work, perseverance and delayed gratification, to help him discover his talents and passions, and to support him in pursuing them.
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