How Private Tuition Can Help Your Child’s Education

Although there are many agencies offering private tuition with a wide range of tutors, standards do vary because tutors often have varying qualifications. The variety of the provision on offer can be determined by a search on the Internet for private tuition. Researchers have found out that there may be over 25% of state school pupils in England who have private tuition after school to help them with their schooling. Furthermore a survey in England of 3,000 primary and secondary school children showed 27% of them to be receiving private tuition.

Of the subjects most in demand for private tuition, Mathematics and English are those for which many parents who use private tuition look for support for their children. This is often found to be the case for pupils of primary school age. Foreign language tuition and the sciences are more popular for secondary school pupils in private tuition .

Generally speaking, most primary school pupils having private tuition do so in order to help them achieve the national average level or better in their Year 6 SAT’s (Standard Assessment Tests) which will help to get them to the desired learning level or setting group in their chosen secondary school. Private tuition for secondary school age children is usually to help them gain higher grades in their GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) examinations.

To allow time for regular schooling, private tuition is for the most part held after school and sometimes on Saturday mornings with lessons usually taken once or twice a week. Most lessons last for an hour but older children may extend the lessons to an hour and a half. Those with poorer concentration and younger children may find that lessons of forty five minute are more suitable. Some tutors offer tuition during half-term breaks and during the summer holidays.

Private tuition is usually on a one-to-one basis but sometimes there may be a number of children of similar ability who can form a group for their tutoring. Charges usually reflect the number of students having their tuition together in the same group. Personal tuition will be more expensive than private tuition held in groups but this is not always an issue as the advantages of fewer distractions and the individual attention that the child receives may be highly desirable.

The main reason for taking private tuition is to ensure that areas of uncertainty in the child’s education can be identified so that a programme of work can be devised to shore up the foundations and improve learning in the relevant areas.

The first task for a private tutor is to assess the pupil to see what level they are currently at and if there are any obvious issues that may be causing problems. The tutoring sessions can then highlight these areas and the tutor can work at boosting their student’s self-esteem in the subject and make sure that progress follows.

Private tuition ensures that the student can enjoy the personal attention of the tutor for the full period of the lesson on a one-to-one basis. Ideas, strategies and methods can be highly focussed. Working in this way, misconceptions can be cleared up so that the student does not have trouble with the subject in later life. These tightly focussed private lessons enable worthwhile progress to be made and the children benefit from the tutor’s undivided attention.

Clarissa Kyriakos writes for Chichester Primary Tutors where you can discover everything you need to know about organising after school lessons and Specific Learning Difficulties for your primary school aged pupil. Arrange private lessons and receive a complimentary 10th lesson. Recommend new clients for further bonuses!