Can Learning From A Tutor Help A Student Retain More Than When The Student Learns From A Classroom Teacher?
Unlike tutoring from a private tutor, most pupils do experience some degree of stress in the classroom at some time or other. A child can successfully pass a test given out in class shortly after a lesson has been taught. But will the young boy or girl remember that information a month, a term, or a year later?
Concepts such as mathematics can be based on other concepts of mathematics that are related. As an example, a student can learn a simple math concept such as one plus one equals two then learn another math concept that's related to the first concept such as one plus two equals three. Once the young boy or girl has advanced in addition, he or she will never forget the concept of one plus one equals two.
What about other academic concepts that are mostly independent such as music, geography, history, and most grammar rules?
The answer is review and practice. A teacher in the public school system has to follow Ministry of Education guidelines which outline what the student is expected to learn at any given time period. Many times, teachers, especially new graduates, are inundated with these guidelines and believe that they are expected to teach everything. Consequently, teachers often don't have time to apply review nor allow their students to practice what they have been taught.
Tutors, on the other hand, are at liberty to provide frequent review and have his student practice until the lesson is well engraved in the student's mind. Here are three benefits related to frequent review and practice when learning, and I'm sure there are several more:
Learning New Concepts Becomes Easier
Learning new academic material is easier especially material that is related. A student can draw on previously learned academic material to help formulate conclusions with new material.
Builds Confidence
With little review and practice, a student is always pressured to learn new material and never able to enjoy the new material that he or she has already learned. With sufficient review and practice, the student develops a greater confidence to take on and comprehend newly acquired academic material.
Student Learns More
What good is learning something if it's only going to be forgotten down the road. Learning ten bits of information and forgetting nine bits of information equals learning only one bit of information. Learning is like building a house. If you build too fast, you risk having to redo that which you spent significant time to build.
About the Author
John H Chartrand is founder of Ottawa Tutors, a company specializing in tutoring in Ottawa, Ontario. As a 15 year Certified Teacher, John has a wide experience in education. His website is full of fantastic articles on the subject of tutoring and education . Visit: http://ottawatutors.org
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