How does small group tuition help children at school?
When looking for tutoring provision for your child, you’ll want to ensure they get the most benefit from their extra learning at school. So how does small group tuition help?
In essence, it blends the individualised learning from one-to-one tutoring with the interactive dynamics of a group setting, offering the best of both worlds. Your child experiences a collaborative and fun learning environment, guided by mentor support that’s tailored to their educational needs.
What is small group tuition?
Instead of working one-to-one with a tutor or as part of a large class, small group tuition involves your child working with a tutor and up to five other students during their learning sessions. It’s more focused on their individual needs than a larger classroom environment and fosters a confidence-boosting setting that helps children develop academically and personally.
Since our inception over 20 years ago, MagiKats has offered small group tuition via its weekly workshops in Maths and English. This tutoring support in small groups has helped thousands of students to maximise their progress at school. Children attend their local centre or can also now join via our online tutoring sessions. Read more about MagiKats workshops.
Shared learning
By working in small groups applicable to their age and educational progress, students can collaborate and learn from each other. It also helps to make subject areas more relatable and dynamic so that a child retains more information – all useful skills when the topics are covered in school lessons.
Improve confidence and active participation
If your child lacks the confidence to ask or answer questions in the classroom, it can affect their ability to learn. By building an encouraging and supportive environment through small group tutoring, as well as a strong emphasis on praise, children grow in self-confidence and this has a positive impact on their engagement and participation in learning.
Personalised and customisable learning programme
We all know how much pressure there is on teachers to deliver the full curriculum to a large class and this can make it more difficult to identify learning gaps in a child. Small group tuition allows for content to be adapted and reinforced to make sure core skills and key concepts are understood, helping children to progress at school.
Less distractions
Distractions are minimised in a smaller group setting, helping your child to maintain their concentration. With a tutor assigned to every small group, behaviour can be managed more effectively and this learned behaviour can positively affect their school life.
Enhances social skills
The structured environment of small group tutoring sessions also helps to develop interpersonal communication skills with other students in their group, and the tutor they work with. Vital social skills such as giving and receiving constructive feedback and teamwork will help a child at school and in later life.
The affordable tuition solution
Typically, small group tuition is more affordable than one-to-one private tutoring, yet it yields all of the same educational advantages. This means that you can support your child throughout their educational journey as the most benefit will be achieved through long-term tuition provision.
Proven to help children make additional progress
Research from the Education Endowment Foundation has shown that small group tuition has an average impact of four months’ additional progress over a year. That’s a huge leap, especially if your child is currently below the usual attainments for their age.
Thinking of enrolling your child in private tuition? Take a look at our advice article on how to choose a tutor and contact your local centre to find out more about our workshop programmes.
