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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Why Holistic Approach To Learning Is A Better Approach To Learning

By Galen Ochua


Tutoring brings many benefits to students from all grade levels. Among them is to help them improve learning so they can catch up with class lessons, to maintain good grades and stay on top of the class. However for majority of the students that undergo tutoring programs, the case is more of the former than the latter. Many students can experience difficulty in keeping up with the rest of their classmates because lessons in class require speed in learning. Hence, most students hire tutors for remediation.

In tutoring programs, the tutor helps the student learn the lessons the student is struggling at. The advantage of this set up is that the student will be able to learn at his own pace without feeling the pressure of getting left behind. The downside of it is that it is time-consuming because the student has been trying to learn a particular lesson twice the time, which may lead to the student developing fatigue over it.

In order to understand something better and faster, one needs to develop more than just memory. After all, learning also necessitates developing other human skills such as dexterity, hand-eye coordination, and equilibrium. Hence, a better way to improve learning is to use the five pillars of a healthy brain. These pillars, when used together, help the mind take in, make use, and retain knowledge. This revolutionary tutoring method focuses on developing a person's visual, auditory, sensory-motor, attention and memory, and social-emotional ability.

A student doesn't just have to see and hear what he needs to learn, he also needs to give enough attention to it in able to retain and recall information. With the development of the brain pillars also comes the development of one's feelings and attitudes towards daily tutoring activities. One needs to show his interest and enthusiasm in what he does. If the student understands how he feels and reacts to a given activity, there's also a greater chance that he'll also understand how important motivation is in learning.

True, age-old tutoring helps us catch up with the lesson in class. But this method is a little outdated and is tiring for students. What students need is a tutoring approach that aims to develop the mental, physical and emotional being.




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