We are different
CHILDREN DO NOT LEARN EFFECTIVELY IN A CRAM-SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT. Ask any trained teacher or academic. Yet, thousands of students toil over boring textbooks in stuffy, crowded rooms, rote-learning facts and not reaching their full potential. Why? Because there haven't been any good alternatives. Because the tutoring business is unregulated and tutor-school owners often don't know the first thing about how children learn effectively.
Kingspeak Academy finally breaks that mould. At last there is a good choice for your children!
Kingspeak Academy was founded in 2010 by a University-trained and experienced teacher to provide the ideal learning environment for your children. We combine pedagogically proven practices, a pleasant and resource-rich environment and trained teachers, with the latest technology to support each child INDIVIDUALLY, whilst maintaining the benefits of small-group tuition.
What does this mean? Let's look at some concrete examples:
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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! |
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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. |
These are just some examples of how King's Peak Academy differs from other tutoring schools you may be familiar with ... there are many other important ways in which we provide a better education than most other tutoring schools. Contact us to arrange an individual consultation.