Your Child And The Home Tuition Process

There is growing criticism of the public schooling system whether it is class sizes that are far too large, too much attention to targets or too little attention on the development of individual children. Much of the criticism is justified but schools have to follow regulated and approved programs. Where individual children need special attention or have preferred learning styles which are not being met, it is impossible for teachers to deal with those situations. This goes some way to explaining why more parents are adding  home tuition to help educate their children.

One of the most important benefits of home tuition is the flexibility with which you can tailor your child’s educational needs developing a learning process which takes into account the preferred learning style of your child as well as recognizing his or her strengths and weaknesses.

The benefits don’t stop there. Although you do have to follow a set curriculum and should have developed a plan to execute it, you have a great deal of flexibility within that plan. Always remember that home tuition is also the relationship between you (or a recognized professional home tutor) and your child. That relationship thrives when you and your child develop the ways in which your child will learn, identify the different subjects that you will both enjoy and even both learn from.

Before you get anywhere near actually teaching there are a number of things to consider as you introduce your child to the home tuition process.

Think of the head start you will have if you involve your child from the very beginning. By inviting your child to help you develop the right learning program for him or her you are all but ensuring that he or she will take more of a personal interest in the tuition as well as encouraging a higher level of learning retention. Think of the huge difference between learning together and being taught at!

When the home tuition education plan has been developed, ask your child to review it keeping them involved in the process. You have the benefit of being as flexible as you need to be as long as your child is aware of his or her responsibilities and why the curriculum needs to be followed. You can introduce as many fun elements as you wish especially if they make full use of your child’s preferred learning style. However, you also need to make it clear the seriousness of why you will be spending this time together and what the desired outcomes are.

You can make your child feel that he or she has an important role to play by discussing daily plans and asking for input. The thing to watch for is that there will be subjects your child does not like and may try to find ways to avoid that particular lesson. He or she needs to understand why the lessons are necessary and by working together to find alternative ways of tackling the lesson may result in your child being a lot more positive.

Knowing your child as you do you can be proactive and have alternative study plans for the subjects or activities you know your child will object to. Offering the alternatives that you have designed can be a very good way of encouraging your child to learn a subject they do not like. On a more positive note even for subjects your child does like offering alternative study plans can keep the subject fresh and all the more interesting.

Part of your role is to manage the whole home tuition process and monitor progress towards achieving specific goals. Within that framework, if your child feels that he or she has made a real contribution to the design of the program and believes you have actively listened to what he or she had to say your child will feel important and a lot more likely to want to participate and learn each day.