1. One-to-one vs Group - have both!
Individual attention lets both teacher and student tackle learning in an intensive and focussed manner. However, it can quickly become too intense for most children. Students need time to reflect upon and digest what they are being taught. Discussing ideas with other students, helping others or being helped by peers are valuable tools for learning. These benefits come from small-group learning. Our computer-based individual learning plans, blended teaching methods, mixed one-to-one time and group-work all ensure that your child gets the best of all worlds! |
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2. Random Words vs
Contextual Learning Does your current tutor give you vocabulary lists of hard, random words? Are you then tested simply by having to spell the words the next week? Sadly, this is the case in many of the "leading" tutoring schools today. At Kingspeak Academy, we always teach vocabulary in context - if your child is doing a comprehension exercise about Space Travel, we would teach words like "astronaut", "gravity" and "atmosphere", not unrelated words like "philatelist" or "evolution". Do you think our students will have a better chance of remembering both spelling and meaning? We're certain of it! If your current tutor teaches random word lists, leave them today! |
3. Immediate Feedback
Most tutoring schools are stuck in the 20th century. Sit a paper-based class test and you wait a week, or sometimes even longer, to get your results. By then, the full learning impact is lost. Students need and want to learn from their mistakes as quickly and clearly as possible. That's why Kingspeak Academy uses a variety of assessment methods, from the traditional paper-based, to online testing, Optical Mark Recognition and interactive, group testing. Feedback is fast and accurate. Best of all, results and tests can be reviewed as often as the student needs (see our blog post on the "Forgetting Curve"). |
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4. Variety is the
Spice of Education Children learn better when there is variety in their learning methods. That's why we ensure that each lesson is engaging and uses a variety of learning media, from hands-on materials to online activities and traditional book/whiteboard instruction. |