Time duration of a lesson V quality of a lesson
/A parent that I was speaking with told me that she didn’t think one hour was enough time to cover the curriculum that I plan to cover in the 7+ Intensive Bootcamp.
One hour is more than enough time.
I do not believe that children need to spend hours and hours of time sitting down doing their lessons. I know many of you send your children to these intensive lessons where they spend hours and hours each week preparing for their 7+ Assessments. Up to you of course. You can prepare your child as you wish.
Here are questions I encourage you to ask.
Is your child enjoying their time? If they are – carry on. If they are not, question why you are choosing to send them to hours and hours of assessment preparation each week.
Is your child’s knowledge and understanding improving?
It better be for all of those hours spent there. If it’s not, question the length of time that your child is spending there. Could they be doing something else with that time?
Are you equating longer learning times to quality learning time? Don’t.
I can teach a very high quality lesson in 30 minutes and get a lot out of my students. I don’t need hours and hours with them.
Why do so many of you think that longer lessons mean better quality lessons? It doesn’t.
What your child truly needs when preparing for their 7+ Assessments is independent learning time. Not hours and hours with their teacher. After all, will their teacher be there with them in their 7+ Assessments? No, they will not.
Spend half an hour with myself or one of our exceptional teachers once a week and watch how your child’s learning, knowledge and development quickly goes to the next level. Watch them become in love with learning. Watch them become determined, resilient and hard working. Watch them as they begin to persevere at those harder tasks. Watch them try to figure things out for themselves rather than this over reliance on the teaching of others.
Quality above quantity when it comes to 7+ Assessment preparation.
