It is perhaps easy enough to understand why there is ever-increasing demand for math, chemistry and physics home tutorials almost anywhere in the globe and in various levels of education. Math, chemistry and physics afterall are very abstract subjects and all too often, students find a hard time appreciating their practical application. Much less their value. Interestingly, basic concepts like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are also basic everyday human activities. Yet students often hate numbers.
One possible explanation to this is an age-old critique that formal school education is isolated from real-world affairs. In other words, they tend to complicate otherwise simple activities and put in theories, concepts that are not at all important in actual practice. Most often too, classroom instructions are very rigid and standardized and many students are alienated, if not discriminated by these policies and practices because that do not match actual learning behaviour in daily life. In a way, hoe tutoring helps augment these Home tutoring across Subject Areas Home tutoring is also popularly known as home tuition services in Singapore. And the practice seem to be effective by itself which means it is useful across various domains of learning and subject areas or topics. In other words, it is successful as a teaching pedagogy or approach by itself regardless of subject matter. And the fact that there is increasing demand for home tuition services not just in mathematics, chemistry and physics but also in humanities and social sciences like history attests to the broad effectiveness of home-based education. In Singapore, humanities tuition sessions cover traditional areas of language, literature, arts and theatre. These tuition services, unlike those in mathematical and natural sciences that focus on developing skills and competencies, often focus on developing appreciation and is anchored on the principle of education to develop a holistic learner, that is, students who are not just intellectually competent but also socially and culturally breed. As such, humanities tuition in Singapore covers a range of universally appealing topics in language, literature, arts and theatre. Home Tutoring Pedagogy Despite what are seemingly ‘easy’ subjects, the growing appeal of humanities tuition in Singapore seem to draw from the fact that home tutoring is generally ‘individualized’. Aside from learning right in the safety, familiarity and comfort of home, home tutorials are often individualized which means the pace, exercise and activities are attuned to the individual needs, interests and capacity of the learner. Compared to standardized methods in group instruction such as those in classrooms, individualized learning allow students to find their ‘comfort zones’ and discover their own intelligence across a range of expression not just pen-and-paper exams in conventional education. Humanities tuition also fosters better relationship between teacher and learner which is often difficult to do in large group settings. Such relationship allows levels of confidence and openness that are difficult to establish in large audiences and therefore significantly lacking in formal classroom environments. And finally, home tutoring also regulates the ‘fear’ of error and humiliation that often comes in classrooms when students make mistakes or commit errors in public. For instance, studies have shown that embarrassing experiences in public speaking have tended to discourage interest in grammar and English or that seeing too many comments and corrections in formal theme classes tends to reduce confidence and completely dissuade students from formal writing. This rarely happens in one-on-one sessions and instead, learners develop better sense of self-esteem.
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