need tips on giving chinese tuition^^
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i'm going to give chinese tuition to two P5 students, was wondering if anyone can share some tips on how i should go about? I'm not a singaporean, have no idea of the syllabus and what they are learning in singapore school. I could get these from students during first meeting right???
Normally what are the tutors doing during tuition sessions ya? get the students to do assessment books, then go through and discuss?
For the first meeting, i read from another post suggesting that it would be better not to buy them assessment books, but to establish rapport first. I was thinking might try to get an idea of how they are doing in school first. but what should I do after that if not doing the assessment? How to spend the 1.5 hr session? anything i can do with the students?
Sounds like silly questions ya...hah
hope to hear from anyone who is experienced~ ^^ -
get to know the student more. Whether are they getting B den wan get A, or getting C den trying to get B
or failing den trying to pass.
important factor, as i think, different categories of student require different kind of preparation at your side as a tutor.
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why are tuition agencies not doing better screenings?
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Originally posted by FireIce:
why are tuition agencies not doing better screenings?
FI: x2. Totally agree.
TS: I'm just appalled at your complete loss. If you dont even know how to execute your lessons, why did you even take up the assignment in the first place?
Let others who are up to the mark to take up the assignment. Please dont let your poor tutees die badly under your "care". And your 脸皮很厚, ask people to do the preparatory work for you. Are you going to share your tuition earnings with others then? -
ppl will say "everything oso got first time mah..........." >innocent look<
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Originally posted by FireIce:
ppl will say "everything oso got first time mah..........." >innocent look<
true ma. if everybody also dun dare step out first step or dun wan take first step, den next time will be severely short of tuition teachers.anyway, i also believe that while everybody has first time, it is also the responsibility of first timer to be keen in learning how to teach, as well as seeking advices from those very experienced tuition teachers. Not just only forum but however if first timer has chances, he or she should go look at how tuition teachers give tuition and sought useful pointers.
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Originally posted by ^@^~Q:
i'm going to give chinese tuition to two P5 students, was wondering if anyone can share some tips on how i should go about? I'm not a singaporean, have no idea of the syllabus and what they are learning in singapore school. I could get these from students during first meeting right???
Normally what are the tutors doing during tuition sessions ya? get the students to do assessment books, then go through and discuss?
For the first meeting, i read from another post suggesting that it would be better not to buy them assessment books, but to establish rapport first. I was thinking might try to get an idea of how they are doing in school first. but what should I do after that if not doing the assessment? How to spend the 1.5 hr session? anything i can do with the students?
Sounds like silly questions ya...hah
hope to hear from anyone who is experienced~ ^^
you can also do chinese spellingmy student is renowned for unable to write
i force them to prepare chinese spelling test
then see how they pronounced word in comprehension
no point doing comprehension when u dunno what is their strength and weakness
you must inculcate good writing habit to the student when teaching chinese.
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Definitely everyone had their "first time". However, it comes across to me as downright unethical to accept an assignment when the tutor does not even know the syllabus, and seemed completely clueless as to how to conduct a lesson. A responsible tutor must first familarise himself/herself with the syllabus, then do sufficient research on how to conduct a tuition session efficiently, then apply for any assignments, based on the tutor's capabilities, prudently. From what I perceive, TS just suka suka apply for tuition assignments first, before desperately asking (or should I say, making use of) people for advice on how to conduct a lesson. How opportunistic can that be?
"I'm not a singaporean, have no idea of the syllabus and what they are learning in singapore school. I could get these from students during first meeting right???"
Dont know the syllabus? Dont know how to conduct a tuition lesson? Either you go and find out BEFORE you apply for an assignment, or dont even apply for one at all.
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Okay, i am not any professional tutor or wad, i just finished my o levels
From p5 to P6 is onli 1 year, depending on the student's ability and current grasp of the subject-which is the language chinese. WIth <1 year i think the possibility of getting the student to score is quite high, first thing is to make the student believes he can do it(i know it is easy to say than to be done).
As a student, i think the tutor needs to be very familiar with those freaking questions where most will find it ambigious, and fall in a state of "Should i take this answer or that?" Thus, you need to go to the popular book store and look at the textbooks, for primary 5. Do note the different 'syllabus', if i remember correctly, during my time, there are 2 textbooks
After that, take that textbook and look at the past exam papers, and see if there are any patterns. Like for the comprehension, the level of difficulty of the text itself to the text passages in the textbook
AFter that, compare the past exam questions to those of the assesment books, depending on the student's ability, you might wants to try to get easy questions at first, than slowly move on to the normal questions, after that buy assesment books that have questions that are slightly more difficult than the current PSLE questions
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i never believed in assessment books
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Originally posted by gohby:
Definitely everyone had their "first time". However, it comes across to me as downright unethical to accept an assignment when the tutor does not even know the syllabus, and seemed completely clueless as to how to conduct a lesson. A responsible tutor must first familarise himself/herself with the syllabus, then do sufficient research on how to conduct a tuition session efficiently, then apply for any assignments, based on the tutor's capabilities, prudently. From what I perceive, TS just suka suka apply for tuition assignments first, before desperately asking (or should I say, making use of) people for advice on how to conduct a lesson. How opportunistic can that be?
"I'm not a singaporean, have no idea of the syllabus and what they are learning in singapore school. I could get these from students during first meeting right???"
Dont know the syllabus? Dont know how to conduct a tuition lesson? Either you go and find out BEFORE you apply for an assignment, or dont even apply for one at all.
kind of agreed, he or she should have gone find out the syllabus first before actually accepting any assignments. -
i never believed in assessment books
true. i rather set my own questions instead~
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It's not the case that I dont know how to conduct lessons, I DO have teaching experiences in my home country. But education system or whatever in singapore is so different! seems like a "result-oriented" country. so was wondering if tuition lessons here have certain "pattern", if not following that pattern might get "complained", another singapore culture....?
Thats why i asking for advice on how to conduct lessons, IN SINGAPORE.
Btw, synco and MyPillow, thanks alot for ur constructive comments ^^
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Irregardless of whether you had conducted lessons in your homeland before, the fact remains:- you are clueless on the syllabus and the subject requirements in the Singapore context. To top it off, knowing your gross lack of knowledge in these areas, you decided to pounce blindly on any tuition assignments that come along your way, hoping that any kind souls on the forum will offer you good advice thereafter. It's analagous to taking up a job without knowing the job requirements, then ask others for advice on how to do your job well! No one is going to spoonfeed you. :)
Pardon me for being blunt, but I feel that you are implicitly taking a dig at Singapore's complaining culture, if that culture even exists in the 1st place. If you haven't stayed in Singapore for a reasonable timespan, or if you havent fully intertwined yourself into the Singapore society, I guess, its better to hold your tongue and refrain from criticising Singapore, lest the overall impression of such foreigners in Singapore deteriorate even further.
Cheers. :)
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i think u guys have been too harsh on the TS. i dun think he/she is in a complete loss. and there's nothing wrong in asking and sharing tips on how to conduct tuition. but TS, i do think that you should find out the syllabus first. and it's damn malu to ask the students about it. cos students will naturally think that their 'teacher' knows everything. fyi, malu = embarrassing
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you giving tution and you don't know what to do?
do some homework first...
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Originally posted by FireIce:
i never believed in assessment books
depends.
Simple ones, I used them to drive in concepts.
Those with more challenging questions, i.e. Yellowreef books (I like them), are used to challenge the students to move on to the next level