The years pass quickly and we find ourselves in a repeating cycle. and I have these tips and tricks for Teachers, Tutors, and whoever is filling in these roles.
1. Approaching new topics requires taking baby steps
When we, as learners, come across new topics, we try to use our prior knowledge to understand the new information. Many a times, this leads to catastrophic results in our comprehension of these new topics. As teachers and tutors, we might find it easier to understand the background of our learners - use relevant, accurate, content from the learners prior experiences in order to introduce new topics.
2. Allowing students to make mistakes so that we can begin unlearning
In teaching & learning, we must create a safe haven for the learners to make mistakes without feeling guilt or remorse or shame. In fact, we should seek to force learners to make mistakes so that we can trace their thoughts with them and correct their thinking process. This unlearning of the erroneous thinking process is one of the most important steps so that the learner can comprehend the subject matter accurately.
3. Aim to increase the frequency of exposure to the new information.
Our minds better retain information that keeps repeating. We can have very intense drills in a short period of time to score high marks immediately, or we can recollect past lessons frequently in order to promote long term retention of information. While the latter works much better long term, we need to cater for longer time for such information processing to take place.
4. Awake but homework not done?
Many students and parents have the same worry - that the amount of homework to be done sometimes requires the sacrifice of sleep. Resulting in a sleepy condition for next day of classes at school. Is this a required trade-off?
No. It is proven that the physical and mental condition of the learner is much more important for better processing of information required during class. If a student attends class tired and mentally unavailable to listen to class, the time spent attending the class will be wasted almost entirely. My humble advise is - do what you can for homework, but keep to strict bedtime hours.
I will continue to learn more and share more with everyone. Thank you for your time reading this
Teacher Jack
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Monday, June 18, 2018
Saturday, January 27, 2018
The 2017 Revolution of Happy Tutors
Many wouldn't have noticed, but we've gone through a lot of changes in 2017. There'd been a change in the core team serving our student and parent clientele with the exit of a founding partner - a huge loss to us.
Sometimes life is like that, we come together for the start of this education service, but one day down the road, we decide that our paths should diverge. Coming together and parting is but common for everyone.
It doesn't mean that we should be any less capable. There'd been a complete restructuring of the core service team. We have appointed Vice-Principal Ms Caryln Teo, and Senior Customer Support staff Ms Irene Tay from early 2017. Mr Sharif had joined the team in October when the new processes are set in place. We are all grateful for each other's dedication.
The team had been set up to provide the best education experience for the student, and the best customer service for the parents. There is the monthly reminder message at the final week of every month. Learning material used by the centre doubled within 2017 and the number of tutors had increased from 15 to 35 to cater to the additional classes that had to be opened to maintain the most effective learning for every student.
Our hiring conditions are also much more stringent than before, and our team now consists of tutors that possess not just a strong academic prowess, but with highly relevant skills that directly relate to the quality of the classes we provide. We're not school teachers because this is not a school, we're here to provide the greatest support so our kids can conquer the schooling obstacles. With each day, of training and hiring, we're having an even greater team like never before.
On top of that, there'd been infrastructure upgrades, especially at our Jurong West branch, where we have installed the digital board as a permanent fixture, replacing the whiteboard. The toilet is renovated and a dry pantry corner is allocated.
In the recent O level results released for 2017, our students had shown stellar performance. I wouldn't be spreading names or sharing messages like the other centres are doing. Would just like to say, thank you for believing in us. I have been passionate in education and people development, and nothing would satisfy me more than to being able to nurture all the students to their own great success.
Happy Tutors will continue to reinvent the way it supports education, and this shall be our lifetime mission.
www.happytutors.edu.sg
Sometimes life is like that, we come together for the start of this education service, but one day down the road, we decide that our paths should diverge. Coming together and parting is but common for everyone.
It doesn't mean that we should be any less capable. There'd been a complete restructuring of the core service team. We have appointed Vice-Principal Ms Caryln Teo, and Senior Customer Support staff Ms Irene Tay from early 2017. Mr Sharif had joined the team in October when the new processes are set in place. We are all grateful for each other's dedication.
The team had been set up to provide the best education experience for the student, and the best customer service for the parents. There is the monthly reminder message at the final week of every month. Learning material used by the centre doubled within 2017 and the number of tutors had increased from 15 to 35 to cater to the additional classes that had to be opened to maintain the most effective learning for every student.
Our hiring conditions are also much more stringent than before, and our team now consists of tutors that possess not just a strong academic prowess, but with highly relevant skills that directly relate to the quality of the classes we provide. We're not school teachers because this is not a school, we're here to provide the greatest support so our kids can conquer the schooling obstacles. With each day, of training and hiring, we're having an even greater team like never before.
On top of that, there'd been infrastructure upgrades, especially at our Jurong West branch, where we have installed the digital board as a permanent fixture, replacing the whiteboard. The toilet is renovated and a dry pantry corner is allocated.
In the recent O level results released for 2017, our students had shown stellar performance. I wouldn't be spreading names or sharing messages like the other centres are doing. Would just like to say, thank you for believing in us. I have been passionate in education and people development, and nothing would satisfy me more than to being able to nurture all the students to their own great success.
Happy Tutors will continue to reinvent the way it supports education, and this shall be our lifetime mission.
www.happytutors.edu.sg
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