What Can Skilled Tutors Add To Supplement Home Schooling?
If you have opted for home schooling, you will have done so because you are convinced this offers your child the best prospects. However, it is by using tutors to help with exam preparation, catching up and upskilling that you can overcome any downsides.
Unfortunately, some people are highly sceptical or even antagonistic towards home schooling in principle, an example of this being found in the Welsh local authority of Powys.
This was demonstrated in a recent council meeting:
- One member described a rise in home schooling from 154 to 473 over the past four years as “shocking”
- Another asked council leaders what they were doing to curb this trend
- A senior officer announced that they would now require parents to make it a legal requirement for parents homeschooling children to register them for this
You may agree that the idea of home schooling being “shocking” is an extreme view, but the quality of education a child gets can undoubtedly vary, while there can be points at which steep challenges can arise and extra help is needed.
What Are The Biggest Benefits Tutors Can Offer Homeschooled Children?
This is where tutors can be so valuable. In an article on homeschooling, Which School Advisor stated that homeschooling, online learning and tutoring are essentially three different things, even though all take place outside a normal classroom setting.
It argued that the value of tutors lies in their ability to fill the gaps in learning, identifying three particular areas:
- Exam preparation
- Catching up where they have fallen behind
- Skill development
The point the article made was that tutoring is not a substitute for other means of education, but an enhancement of it.
By understanding tutoring in this way, you can hire our tutors to specifically target and supplement existing homeschooling education to give your child the extra support they need.
Whether it is to help them pass an exam, reach a higher level in a strong subject or catch up, tutors can ensure there is nothing “shocking” about the level of education your homeschooled child receives.
