It is in primary education that all things start. What a child learns between the ages of five and eleven in the way of college-level mathematical intuition, reading comprehension, scientific curiosity and learning habits, does not just prepare them for secondary school, but prepares them for the way they will relate to learning throughout the rest of their school career and beyond. Home schooling parents in Dubai who have decided to home school their primary school children do not take this role lightly. Primary home schooling in Dubai isn't an informal arrangement but it's an organized, purposeful learning path, backed by specialist private tutors, that can match and often surpass the results of mainstream primary education. Amourion Training Institute has worked with primary home-schooling families throughout Dubai for more than two decades, offering the specialist tutoring support which underpins and lays the foundations for all future academic success. Dr Anil Khare addresses the most common questions that primary schools' home-schoolers ask us in Dubai.
Dr. Anil Khare: The first thing you need to know about effective primary tutoring is that it should never be a scaled down version of a classroom. Primary children process information most effectively through curiosity, play, conversation and delight of discovery. The primary tutor who specializes in the subject matter does not go into the lesson with a ready-made lesson plan and a worksheet to present to the student. They bring a vast knowledge of the numeracy and literacy progression of children and have a keen ability to read what each child is doing at any one moment in the day and the ability to follow a concept in any way that is most natural for the child that day. The structure is always there, but the child can't see it. They learn and it is fun and natural to them. They develop without realizing it that the mathematical fluency and reading comprehension is being developed in every step of their educational journey.
Dr. Anil Khare: One of the places where one to one tutoring by a specialist tutor works well is for home-schooled primary children, not because they lack the peer environment, but rather that it is a part of it. With 25 children in a classroom, a teacher will not have more than a few minutes in each of the sessions to work intensively with an individual child in reading, phonics or writing. A specialist primary tutor dedicated to that one child for the whole time, identifying exactly which phonics patterns are safe, and which are not, and adapting the reading to just the correct level to challenge without frustrating, yet providing immediate feedback on each word read. We teach reading and writing within a structured literacy program aligned to Cambridge Primary or other scheme of work and the extent to which children can read and write is not only in line with the expected standard at the age but is measurably further advanced by home-schooled children.
Dr. Anil Khare: Yes, and that is one of the most frequent academic profiles that we come across in primary home-schooled children for very good reasons. If a child participates in his own learning to a greater or less extent, the subjects which interest and please him are automatically given more attention, while the others which give trouble are unconsciously shunted aside. This yields true strength in some areas, and true weakness in others. This is addressed in our differentiated program which simultaneously extends the child's mathematical ability and takes them into what is mathematically challenging and keeps them engaged, whilst also developing English skills from the point at which the child really needs them, not the point at which the child would be expected to have reached by their age. Both dimensions progress together, at different speeds at the start, then become more balanced and both subjects are progressing confidently forward.
The primary years are crucial and too unique to be adequately covered by a single solution for the classroom. tutors.ae powered by Amourion is where that partnership begins for home school families in Dubai who want their child's education to be specialized, grounded in expertise, personalized and the kind of attentive, responsive teaching that a primary classroom simply cannot provide.
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