Home Tuitions Versus Coaching Classes

Private Tuitions has become an essential part of a child’s academic curriculum in India. More than 90% students take private tuitions to accompany their schooling and better their understanding of academic concepts. In many cases, not going to tuition becomes a taboo!

 An ever-impending question that arises when parents consider sending their child for tuitions is whether they should opt for home tuitions or coaching classes. Bookatutor is here to help you make this decision by putting forth the pros and cons of both.

 The Pros of Home Tuitions

•     Home tutoring is like home schooling. If your child lacks behind in a certain subject, he/she can make up by getting special attention, similar to that of home schooling, in a home tutorial.

•     The one to one interaction between the tutor and the student during home tutorials is unmatchable. This undivided attention proves to be beneficial for a student requiring complete focus and attention of the tutor. This attention caters to their specific doubts.

•     For a child who is a slow learner, home tuitions is the best option and the tutor can alter his/her teaching pace in accordance to the child’s grasping/ understanding speed.

•     Home tuitions enable students to ask about their doubts without any hesitation. The personalized attention also helps the tutor to understand the weak areas of the students, offering them the specialized guidance required.

•     The best part of home tuition is that parents can be directly involved and overlook all the tutorials. They can monitor the progress of the child if and when they want, and directly remain in touch with the tutor for the feedbacks.

 The Con of Home Tuitions

•     Home tutoring can be relatively expensive. Since the tutor is allocating his/her time-slot specifically to one child, he/she is likely to charge more than coaching centers.

•     Peer-to-peer environment is missing in home tuitions. This means that the child might not only loose concentration when bored, but he/she might also not have the challenge incentive to work harder. Students won’t be able compare and evaluate their progress in tutorials. Furthermore, they can’t discuss their problems with their friends, and hence loose out on peer-to-peer studies. Studying in a group can make the procedure interesting and students can obtain help from each others.

 

The Pros of Coaching Centers

•     Coaching class is an ideal option for students who have good grasping power. If your child can grasp a concept relatively quickly, coaching centers are for him/her as they will help your child revise concepts taught in school.

•     In coaching classes students can benefit from peer-to-peer studies. This includes incentive to work harder to do better than your peers, ask peers for help when in doubt, avoid boredom, and discussion with peers when looking for solutions.

•     Studying in tuition centers helps to foster co-ordination that proves helpful in school.

•     There is less monotony here as there are friends to interact with and an atmosphere of congeniality.

•     Parents before enrolling their children can enquire about the authenticity of the institute and also attain the feedback of the tutors.

 

The Cons of Coaching Centers

•     The basic demerit of coaching center is that it has an overcrowded environment. Too many students in a particular class can lead to the tutor not being able to provide specific attention to your child.

•     The crowded environment also means that the student might get distracted from work, and start shirking around with his/her friends.

•     If your child is someone who is relatively shy of approaching the tutor with his/her problem in school, then coaching classes is a definite no for your child. A coaching environment will mean that your child is enrolled in yet another classroom where he/she would shy away from asking for help when in doubt.

•     In tuition centers parents cannot monitor the progress of their children. They remain unaware of the development until the test results of the center come out. There is also a slight chance that a child might bunk the classes, and the parents remain unaware.

•     Weak students, having low grasping power lag behind. They require more attention, which cannot be availed in coaching classes. Also, they might require special guidance or unique procedure of teaching which is unattainable in this method of tutoring. Coping up with the speed of teaching and learning is another problem that slow learners face

 

Choosing between home tutors and coaching centers is not that difficult once you evaluate your child’s needs. If you believe that your child is lacking behind at school because he/she is relatively slow as compared to other students in grasping concepts, or is easily distracted by peers in crowded classrooms, then home tuitions is definitely the way forward. On the other hand, if you believe that your child understands concepts quickly, but needs help revising these concepts, then coaching classes are a good option.

 If after evaluation, you believe that home tuition is the way forward for your child, then do check out Bookatutor portal (www.bookatutor.co.in). We have a database of quality tutors willing to provide home and online tuitions on one-on-one basis.