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At the library, I see other tutors teaching kids the same age as the two I teach, teaching the same things in much the same way. I try to make my lessons fun and interacting, using a white board and an iPad. I also have a great relationship with the kids. Smiles and all. BUT for 45 minutes, it's constant negotiation...it's like pulling teeth. The kids, 7 and 8, like me but they just don't want to do any work. BUT the other kids, not mine, are sitting nicely doing their work. I did notice that those tutors bring the kids into the library, so the mom is not in the building. Could this be making a difference?
It's possible - when I was a teacher I definitely noticed that kids were very often poorly behaved when mom was around compared to when it was just teachers. However, there are plenty of other possibilities, like that it's the kids' personalities, the consequences or rewards their parents have put in place, what they ate or whether they ate first, how much exercise they got, and so on. There are so many variables. It could, of course, be something about you or your lessons, but that's no more likely than anything else. You'll just have to experiment and see if changing this or that can make a difference.
Let me also add that I've done a lot of one-on-one interventions with kids that age (although never with a parent around), and usually found that by themselves they were willing to work much harder than other settings - like, even kids who did nothing in a classroom worked when we were alone. However, at that age I never would have gone past 30 minutes of intense work. Perhaps a shorter time period of hard work, with a promise of something easy or fun at the end might help? Maybe not, but just an idea.
It makes a BIG diff when the mom is not around.....just ask anyone whose place your kids have visited....they're good as gold....
I often wonder what alien life forms take over my kids bodies when they go to friend's houses. I'd like those frendly, polite and ambitious aliens to take up permanent residence....
It could be that these two just really "feed" off each other.
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