By Freddy Ngiam, Founder & CEO of TuitionPortal.sg
There are many advantages associated with home tutoring your child. As the latest trends show, many families are opting to it than sending their children to the traditional schools. The advantages associated with homeschooling include:
l Flexible schedules
Home tuition enables a child and their tutor to have a flexible schedule. The child does not need to wake up until the set time for the lessons. Your child can start homeschooling at 10 am or later depending on your preferred time on your schedule. You may schedule your child's home tuitions as you see fit and with materials or subjects that may not even be available in a normal traditional school. You can tailor the school curriculum to suit your needs and to the interests of your child.
l Individual attention for your charge.
In the normal traditional school settings, fifty to sixty students are bunched together and are assigned to one teacher for the whole class. This being the case, the teacher can not devote a hundred percent attention to one child since it won't be fair to the other children in the class. This is in addition to the fact that it is quite impossible to provide individual attention to all students. With home tuitions, your child gets individual attention that they need. If your child is weak in a certain area, let us say, Mathematics, you could devote more time and energies into it.
Your child's home tuition schedule can be adjusted to cater for the deficiency .This can only be possible with home tuitions as opposed to traditional schooling.
l No peer pressure
With home tuitions, the child does not need to prove their abilities to the other children. The parent is able to understand their child more deeply and therefore can be able to plan the learning programs accordingly. The parent or the tutor can change the curriculum to suit the learning style of their child. Some children learn better by reading while others do it by writing. Other children do it better from seeing or experiencing things physically. The child is free from negative peer influences.
l Family Activities
The learning can be extended to the family as a whole. This includes field trips and experiments. On top of this, the child receives more quality time with their parents meaning that they are more time for family bonding.
l Religion Learning
This is a sensitive issue on every child's life, thus most traditional schools shun away from it. With homeschooling or home tuitions, a tutor or a parent can take control over the moral and religious learning of the child without undue attention to themselves. The parent can impact their religious ideologies and deep beliefs into the child mind rather than let the school to do it.
So, if you ever thought that homeschooling has more disadvantages than advantages, think again- the good things far outweigh the bad ones. Give it a try and see your child educational progress improve dramatically.
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