23 February 2025

K-12 Tuition Industry

It is very common for parents to send their children to tuition classes after regular school hours in countries like ours. Singapore seems to be no exception. 

This evening CNA TV Channel telecast a very interesting evidence based documentary on the tuition industry in that country. 

Although I have never given tuition classes in spite of requests from parents during several years when I was a teacher, from my own experience as a student and as school principal, effective tuition classes are benefitial provided the fact that most of our k-12 schools have large classrooms with  ineffective teaching methods due to substandard school policies and teacher development programmes.

I think that our k-12 stake holders need to learn from such documentaries and do the needful to fix the bottlenecks in the regular school systems. Let me share the link to the documentary here.



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Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.