"Does Your Child Practise Selective Learning?"

A few years back, I was tutoring this kid. My first impressions of him was good. He was fairly bright and quick to learn.

However, his grades were no good.

I took a while to notice his problem. His problem was that he did not know what are the important facts to remember in an exam or test. His teacher emphasized on everything in the textbook. Emphasis on EVERYTHING means NOTHING was emphasized at all. To help him, I re-taught him the lessons with the correct emphasis. This was especially important for him in Science and English. Soon, his grades began to improve.

(My other methods of teaching him were very different from conventional teaching. You can find an article on it here.)

To teach a child effectively, there must be focus. When I tutor any kid, I ALWAYS asked him/her to summarize one lesson into a sentence. That sentence is the minimal that the child should learn. All other information will be building blocks on that basic unit of information. In this way, your child can recall information easier by just knowing a centre piece of info.

And out of all the information in the textbook, there must be some that are more important and more applicable than the rest. And, my job as a tutor is to identify those important ones and imprint them in my students.

Is your child practising selective learn?

It surely beats memorizing the whole textbook.

For more information on private tutoring lessons, please email me at thelightbulbeffect@gmail.com.