Pros and Cons of Group Tuition
Advantages of Group Tuition
Group tuition is much cheaper than private tuition. Parents are more or less cost sharing the price of hiring a teacher and so the rates come down.
Sometimes, children do not think they can do something. Although you as the parent or teacher may show them what to do, they may still not be up to challenge. However, when they see their mates do it, they are encouraged and motivated to try it out too. This is something that can only be achieved in a group tuition.
It is a great way for children to interact with their peers. This provides an avenue to improve their social skills. They learn how to relate with others and deal with problems. They also learn team work and are able to help build each other up.
Interacting with other students helps the child to build character traits such as tolerance, understanding, perseverance and patience. As the tutor engages them in group studies, revision and other activities, these traits help the children attain group success.
Disadvantages of Group Tuition
The child will not reach their full potential in a group tuition. This is because the tutor does not have the time to attend to each individual child's needs or know their weaknesses. Slow learners will often lag behind the rest of the students and will require individual coaching if they are to be at par with the rest of the students. Shy students too are at a disadvantage because they may not have the courage to ask questions in front of their peers.
Tutors concentrate on delivering the subject matter at the expense of learning techniques. They only aim to make the subject known to the children without teaching them different study skills. Thus, children miss the most important skills and techniques necessary for studying; skills that they will be required to use even as adults.
In a group setting, some children may look confident but be utterly helpless when left alone. Such children do not have self-confidence and are poor at working independently.
Group tuition masks a child's weakness. The tutor does not have enough time to evaluate him or her alone and this opens the door for some weak areas to go unnoticed. The child too is not aware of his strengths. They need someone to point them out and this can only happen when the tutor spends more time with them. In group tuition, this is impossible.
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