The benefits of arranging tuition for your child
Some students are able to thrive in classes and exams without additional support. However, some students do gain significantly from individual tuition.
In this article we discuss five clear benefits of arranging tuition for your child.
1. Undivided Attention
During one-to-one tuition, your child receives the 100% undivided attention of a subject specialist tutor. This compares with the school classroom, where there are often up to 30 students of mixed ability, making it impossible for a teacher to give their full attention to any one student.
This opportunity allows students to focus and benefit from the support and assistance of a subject expert.
2. Individual learning schedule
Tutoring ensures that no time is wasted going over areas with which your child is comfortable, rather time can be focused intensively on key areas. Sessions are prepared to focus on particular areas that the student has not yet understood, or wants to develop a deeper understanding of. This allows better control over the direction of your child’s learning, which is hugely beneficial to progress.
If your child is preparing for a specific exam, a tutor can set practice examination questions all year round, ensuring that there is no “crunch” over Easter. Tutoring also allows your child to focus on topics after the rest of the class has moved on, ensuring that understanding and knowledge is consolidated.
An individual learning schedule can be tailored to your child’s requirements. This ensures that later learning is built on solid foundations. Whether your child is looking for tutor to help preparation leading up to an exam, or alternatively to provide support alongside school teaching; a learning schedule ensures that your child is not left having to catch up during the stressful time just before the exams.
Rather than the bulk practice questions set to everybody in class, a tutor can set questions for homework that focus on individual problem areas – discussing answers and approaches individually and in depth. This is especially helpful during revision periods leading up to the exams, giving students a clear structure of what to work on.
3. Tutors have specialist knowledge
Our tutors are subject specialists , and many continue to work and research in their fields. With today’s shortage of science and maths teachers, many in the classroom are not necessarily experts in their disciplines. Our tutors are immersed in their subject day in day out and have specialist up-to-date knowledge.
Our tutors have recently been in the same position as your child – enabling them to effectively empathise. Your child will find it easy to relate to our enthusiastic, engaged, friendly and approachable young tutors. Many parents say that their children look forward to their sessions – giving them an opportunity to learn something that has been going over their heads at school.
4. Improved Grades
Whether your child is preparing to sit their Common Entrance, their GCSEs or their A Levels – focused and planned tutoring will allow them to be best prepared for their examinations. Tutors can test students to ensure that they are comfortable and familiar with all of the syllabus.
Tutors can provide support and an overall approach to studying science – sparking interest and increasing confidence, as well as increasing your child’s ability to set attainable goals and plan how to achieve them. Tutors also allow students to take responsibliltiy for own learning, as well as developing invaluable exam and revision techniques.
With places at top schools and universities increasingly difficult to come by, it is vital that your child gets the grades that they deserve in order to ensure that they make their offers.
5. Increased Confidence
Pupils are often too shy to ask questions amongst their peers in class. When working one-to-one with a tutor who they can trust, they can discuss any questions that they have in the subject and deepen their knowledge and understanding in a safe environment.
In this environment, your child will naturally feel their confidence for the subject grow. They will be more comfortable taking risks to hypothesise ideas, and explore areas beyond the syllabus and their understanding. This puts your child in a strong position when preparing to for study for their A Levels and beyond.