Tuition teachers share which students benefit the most & least from tuition in Singapore 🇸🇬 :
● You don’t stand to gain much if you are already scoring ‘A’s.
● There are some students who do not need tuition.
● Who doesn’t need tuition?
This is because they “already have the ability” to score top grades in exams.
● It would make much more sense for these students to focus on their other subjects instead.
● About students who don’t need extra help, : “I want to earn my income with a clear conscience. I told them to spend the money and time on other subjects that they are weaker at instead.”
● Tutor is able to identify the “better students”, who are “able to see questions from the teacher’s point of view”.
● Such students know exactly what they need to focus on and maintain their good grades.
● But many still continued as they didn’t want to let their guard down and wanted to guarantee an ‘A’. These may be the ones who may benefit the least from tuition as it is more of an insurance policy.
● This doesn’t mean that tutor has nothing to offer such “better students” though, who will be assigned more challenging homework.
How did these students end up in tuition in the first place though?
◆Some children come to tuition at the behest of parents.
◆If this is the only thing motivating them to attend tuition classes, tutors will not be able to deliver the best results.
◆After all it takes two hands to clap. Hi-five ✋️
Who might not benefit much from tuition?
■ This goes to show that there are some students who get signed up by their parents but who may not stand to gain that much.
■ Bluntly, no tutor can legitimately guarantee improvements in results.
■ Much depends on students’ own effort. Some students joined classes in the second half of the second year of JC, while expecting “a big jump in their grades”.
■ “I always do my best to help these students who come in during this time, but I can't perform miracles. Students’ results are also dependent on how much effort they are willing to put into the subject.”
■ After all, one way for students to stand out in subject, such as Economics, is to be able to quote “up-to-date real world context information in their exam scripts”.
■ While tutor tries to help students “see the link between what they have learnt in theory and in the real world”, injecting personal stories to illustrate these connections, much still depends on whether students are able to stay updated with current affairs.
■ The student who benefits the most would be one who:
1. is willing to work hard to improve
2. is willing to clarify questions when there are doubts
3. has faith in the teacher.
♣︎ What can tuition teachers do?
♧ Tutor has “various strategies” to deal with unmotivated students.
♧ This is important to tutor, as tutor finds that students who gain “a renewed interest in the subject” through the tution classes tend to do well almost “automatically” — something tutor comes to recognise over the 10 years.
♧ In such cases, tutor describes a process of “slowly building rapport with the student to win student's hearts over.
♧ Students who are uninterested in the subject, or unmotivated, may be held back as they do not have the right teacher:
♤ Students don’t learn well if they have no rapport with tutor. Students learn best when they can feel that tutor care, and tutors must be able to transfer the energy of curiosity and enthusiasm to them.
Who said a tutor’s job is easy?
♡ Students who stand to gain the most from tuition :
♡ Provided that their tutors have the right content knowledge and teaching skills, EQ so that most students would benefit from tuition.
♡ Having an extra pair of helping hands from tutor to guide will almost certainly aid the learning process.
♡ Familiarity with the syllabus is an additional benefit that tutors can provide. Tutor reviews question papers each year, and even some schools’ preliminary exam questions.
♡ This does not mean that tutors help to “spot” questions, using a colloquialism among students to refer to the practice of trying to predict (or “spot”) which questions are likely to appear in the upcoming exams.
◇ After all, it is important not to gamble, and students should be prepared to be examined on all topics.
♤ The tutor’s role as one of providing “scaffolding” — to guide students in receiving the right content, imparting the proper problem solving skills. Students have to do the climbing up the scaffolding by themselves.
♧ If this is done right, the student’s learning becomes more efficient.
○ While these tutors stand willing and able to provide their students with all of this knowledge and skills, they each emphasise the importance of a student’s part in the equation.
● For one, students need to see that tuition classes are just a complementary good to school lessons. It is not a substitute.
□ Over the years, students who do best are those who show interest in the subject and do whatever it takes to do well. This can include being “fearless” to ask questions when in doubt. There is no stupid question in the world, only unsatisfactory replies.
■ Outside of lesson time, tutor also provides online live quizzes and tests to help reinforce concepts.
♤ Students who are “weaker and average” in those topics would be encouraged to attend, and would have their quiz answers marked on the spot.
♡ Tutor also provides video solutions for them to go through their mistakes.
◇ Needless to say, such optional offerings would only benefit the students who make time to attend.
Going above and beyond
◇◆ The most driven students have found a way to extract maximum value from their tuition investment, by seeking tutor out for what this calls “value-added services”.
● Students have tutor's personal phone number, and can text tutor after hours for help with their subjects — even in the middle of the night.
● Some students ask me to mark their additional essays and I mark them. Some students request to meet me for one-to-one consultations. I meet them to guide them for extra classes without payment. Some students need career guidance and advice on university courses. I give them my advice as well. Some students need me to write letters of recommendation for top prestigious universities overseas. I write testimonials for them as well.
● Why go the extra mile as a tutor? Because tutoring is “more than delivering the subject knowledge”.
● Rather, it encompasses “being a mentor and life coach to students as well”, even if this comes at the cost of tutor's personal time.
● Tutors are in the business of people, not just results. Good results are the outcome of having taught well and having good relationships with your student.
汉字, Pinyin ,English
授人以鱼不如授人以渔, shòu rén yǐ yú bùrú shòu rén yǐ yú, Give a man a fish and you feed him for one day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
学如登山, xué rú dēng shān, Studying is like climbing a mountain.
念念不忘, niànniàn-bùwàng, Study hard and don’t forget.
三人行，必有我师, sān rén xíng, bì yǒu wǒ shī , In a group of three people, there will always be one person I can learn from.
师傅领进门，修行在个人, shīfù lǐng jìnmén, xiūxíng zài gèrén, Teachers open the door; you enter by yourself.
活到老，学到老, huó dào lǎo, xué dào lǎo, Live until you're old, study until you're old.
严师出高徒, yánshī chū gāotú, Strict teachers produce brilliant students.
读万卷书不如行万里路, dú wàn juǎn shū bùrú xíng wàn lǐ lù, Reading ten thousand books is not as good as walking a thousand miles.
学无止境, xué wú zhǐ jìng, Learning is limitless.
学然后知不足, xué ránhòu zhī bùzú, To learn is to encounter one’s own ignorance.
教学相长 , jiàoxué-xiāngzhǎng , When you teach someone, both teacher and student benefit.
温故而知新 , wēngù’érzhīxīn , Studying the past helps to understand the present.
📖 📕 📘 📗 📓 📚 永远不要通过封面或颜色来判断一本书。 Yǒngyuǎn bùyào tōngguò fēngmiàn huò yánsè lái pànduàn yī běn shū. Never judge a book by its cover or color.
读书思考，思考致富。
Dúshū sīkǎo, sīkǎo zhìfù.
Read and Think , 🤔 Think and Grow Rich.
然而，希尔拒绝将《思考致富》纯粹定义为一种成功的方法或系统，他表示他的书的目标是：
• 帮助读者提高自我意识。
• 帮助读者了解如何在宇宙不变的法则中变得更加有效。
思考致富的 13 条原则是什么？
However, refusing to let Think and Grow Rich be defined purely as a method or system for success, Napolean Hill stated that the goals of his book were:
• To help the reader become self-aware.
• To help the reader understand how to become more effective amidst the immutable laws of the universe.
What Are the 13 Principles of Think and Grow Rich?
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