Why your child should have a tutor

We know that all children face difficulties with school at varying times. The pandemic has ensured that this academic year is one that is disjointed and shrouded with uncertainty. In our current economic climate, parents are under increased strain to balance work commitments as well as bolster their children’s performance at school. Perhaps tutors can help bring certainty and achieve the latter. 

Several examples of how tutoring can make all the difference

• Support one on one learning

Overcrowding is usually a concern when it comes to learners receiving attention. Social distancing has prevented this, but isolation poses the same risks. Distance learning initiatives at this scale are highly standardized, experimental, and implemented in a short period. The results of which are far-reaching and not yet measured. Tutoring can help bridge this gap by supplementing the available resources with one-on-one learning to give your child the best chance of achieving success.

• Provide your child with room for error

Learners differ in many respects, and so do their areas of competence. They are often discouraged when faced with a subject they find too challenging. It may make them feel stupid and/or dejected. Tutors provide learners with a safe space to struggle. They aim to understand and address your child’s pain points on a subject and then equip them with the know-how to resolve it.

• Help to maintain acquired skills

The “holidays” for learners have been exceptionally long this year. When school resumed, attendance had to alternate for adherence to social distancing regulations. Whether you have effectively monitored your child’s progress or found the task onerous, a tutor can help improve acquired skills or maintain them. 

• Develop thinking and sound reasoning

“The goal of education is not knowledge acquisition per se, but to acquire the flexibility to participate in discourse.” – Jerry Andriessen of the Department of Educational Sciences, Utrecht University.

Children have had all manner of apps, gadgets, and machine learning tools. As well as an astounding ability to understand them. The nature of some areas of study, however, is such that no correct knowledge is supposed to exist. A tutor encourages open discussions allowing a learner to engage intellectually with their study material. This is a crucial life skill because it speaks to the recall and application of knowledge within the real world.

These are but some of the many reasons you should consider finding a tutor to assist your child in making the best of what’s left of 2020. It will help ensure that they make good grades come to the end of the school calendar and set them up for success in the year to come and beyond.

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