Setbacks streaming in..
Another set back..obstacles and challenges to my morales are coming in hard and fast these times..
Had a talk with Lily (Mercu ctr manager) and Nabil's mom just now after tuition..she intends to withdraw Nabil from tuition cause his results are not improving at school. All three of us realise Nabil's problem and that the fault lies with the family and him and not the centre..Nabil is a very egoistic child, stubborn and and hyperactively-easily distracted. He cannot maintain focus for more than 5mins...so far, he is not the type of person who can do 2 things at a time. The noisy and hyperactive boys in my class can do their revision and yak at the same time...not him. The rest of the class finishes 10 qns in 1hr 30min..(thats slow considering all the distractions!) but he will do only 5max...even the slow boy in my class who doesnt talk much but needs me to explain a lot does more than him..
My personal take...he does not benefit from group tuition. Personally..i see no point in tuition (esp group tuition) for kids below Pri. 6....really! I as a kid...detest tuition and at that young an age..i already realised that studying CAN BE DONE alone, with the family and school is more than enough! U spend nearly 6hours a day at school and spend some more time at tuition?? Thats a waste of time and money i feel...Like Cik Idah always said, what u can do as a parent, do it..its different teaching your own kids compared to others handling it. All these hanyut issues she says its because of bad and unprepared parenting. So to future parents and all...always learn and be prepared to learn. Its never a case of b/w copying of methods...there must always be comparisons made, assessments, implementation and evaluation. (This is like policy formulation and implementation from political science ey?!)
But now...its a point to reflect on how i can improve my tuition service. There is always this problem that thefaster kids will finish the exercises given to them first...much faster than the slower ones. To overload them would really demoralise them...and its not FUN! To give extra exercises for the faster ones will be to demoralise them too...cos they will learn to dp their work slowly. I was hard at thinking jus now during the bus ride to Bkt Batok..i was tinking of experiments and projects (FUN ones..) that they can do which will also spur the slower ones on too...Since most of them were like me when i was young...we all loved to do craftwork and science stuffs...so i am going to research for projects we can do every week. Thats my project!
Well...Then...kcik and the Khalawats picked me up after tuition. Sorry for the apparent moodiness. But i tink i was jus either affected by my blocked nose..or other stuffs. Sorry.
May Allah guide us all..bless us with happiness and health n protect us from the dangers of this world, physically or mentally. Help us become successful people in the world and after...
Had a talk with Lily (Mercu ctr manager) and Nabil's mom just now after tuition..she intends to withdraw Nabil from tuition cause his results are not improving at school. All three of us realise Nabil's problem and that the fault lies with the family and him and not the centre..Nabil is a very egoistic child, stubborn and and hyperactively-easily distracted. He cannot maintain focus for more than 5mins...so far, he is not the type of person who can do 2 things at a time. The noisy and hyperactive boys in my class can do their revision and yak at the same time...not him. The rest of the class finishes 10 qns in 1hr 30min..(thats slow considering all the distractions!) but he will do only 5max...even the slow boy in my class who doesnt talk much but needs me to explain a lot does more than him..
My personal take...he does not benefit from group tuition. Personally..i see no point in tuition (esp group tuition) for kids below Pri. 6....really! I as a kid...detest tuition and at that young an age..i already realised that studying CAN BE DONE alone, with the family and school is more than enough! U spend nearly 6hours a day at school and spend some more time at tuition?? Thats a waste of time and money i feel...Like Cik Idah always said, what u can do as a parent, do it..its different teaching your own kids compared to others handling it. All these hanyut issues she says its because of bad and unprepared parenting. So to future parents and all...always learn and be prepared to learn. Its never a case of b/w copying of methods...there must always be comparisons made, assessments, implementation and evaluation. (This is like policy formulation and implementation from political science ey?!)
But now...its a point to reflect on how i can improve my tuition service. There is always this problem that thefaster kids will finish the exercises given to them first...much faster than the slower ones. To overload them would really demoralise them...and its not FUN! To give extra exercises for the faster ones will be to demoralise them too...cos they will learn to dp their work slowly. I was hard at thinking jus now during the bus ride to Bkt Batok..i was tinking of experiments and projects (FUN ones..) that they can do which will also spur the slower ones on too...Since most of them were like me when i was young...we all loved to do craftwork and science stuffs...so i am going to research for projects we can do every week. Thats my project!
Well...Then...kcik and the Khalawats picked me up after tuition. Sorry for the apparent moodiness. But i tink i was jus either affected by my blocked nose..or other stuffs. Sorry.
May Allah guide us all..bless us with happiness and health n protect us from the dangers of this world, physically or mentally. Help us become successful people in the world and after...
ameen