If college is the gateway yo a career, then preschool is the official starting point to education. The learning outcomes of preschool are the foundation years for math, science, art, and languages. While there are some debates on when a child should start preschool, many debates weigh heavily on the curriculum and environment of preschool. Which brings to one question: can pre-kindergarden home tutoring be just as effective as traditional methods? Below are the pros and cons of pre-kindergarden home tutoring.
The Pros
In Control
Sometimes, parents do not agree with a particular curriculum or teaching method. Pre-kindergarden home tutoring allows parents to have more control of how and what their child learns. Maybe a parent wants to focus more on honing their child's math skills or their child excels in the arts and they …show more content…
Home tutoring sessions will most likely be one-on-one. If this is the case, a pre-kindergarder is not socializing with children their own age. Many studies have shown that socialization is a major part of positive development. It is through socializing children learn appropriate attitudes, values, and behaviors.
More Discipline and Time Consuming
Home tutoring not only takes time, it requires more discipline. Patience and routine are the key in having effective tutoring sessions. Rushing through lessons will not make a child learn more; in fact, it will give the opposite effect. Also, allowing a child to skip lessons without a reasonable excuse will not reinforce a child's learning but hinder it. Take for example when a child is on summer break. For roughly three months, a child is not in school. If they are not enrolled in a summer school, they are most likely playing or something that is not as productive. By the time they return to school, they have forgotten a major of what they learned before the
The Pros
In Control
Sometimes, parents do not agree with a particular curriculum or teaching method. Pre-kindergarden home tutoring allows parents to have more control of how and what their child learns. Maybe a parent wants to focus more on honing their child's math skills or their child excels in the arts and they …show more content…
Home tutoring sessions will most likely be one-on-one. If this is the case, a pre-kindergarder is not socializing with children their own age. Many studies have shown that socialization is a major part of positive development. It is through socializing children learn appropriate attitudes, values, and behaviors.
More Discipline and Time Consuming
Home tutoring not only takes time, it requires more discipline. Patience and routine are the key in having effective tutoring sessions. Rushing through lessons will not make a child learn more; in fact, it will give the opposite effect. Also, allowing a child to skip lessons without a reasonable excuse will not reinforce a child's learning but hinder it. Take for example when a child is on summer break. For roughly three months, a child is not in school. If they are not enrolled in a summer school, they are most likely playing or something that is not as productive. By the time they return to school, they have forgotten a major of what they learned before the