Extra lessons add to school, not replace
The show positions tutoring as supplementary: school teaches the syllabus, extra lessons rebuild skills with a different strategy. This lets one approach serve children from any curriculum, including CAPS and IEB schools. Mainly guest-carried.
How it developed: Moves from dividing roles, to explaining why a different teaching strategy helps, to a skills-based claim that one approach serves learners from any curriculum.
The thread's title and description are AI-written, drawn from the episodes below. The quotations are verbatim from the episode audio, each linked to the moment it was said.
What was said
“So the school and the teacher will then be the one who actually gives them the syllabus or the curriculum on a day-to-day basis, and then as an extra lessons provider, we supplement that.”
“And with extra lessons, a complete different strategy is utilized to try and make the student understand that concept area that they're struggling with.”
“But our class sizes are getting so big, and the CAPS curriculum is so full of material that the teachers need to cover, it's almost impossible to cover the entire year's syllabus in that required days.”
“We're skills-based. We do not cover the syllabus, as we expect the child to cover the syllabus in their five-day school week, and when they come to us, we are supplementary.”
“a triangle is a triangle, no matter which school you're in.”
Episodes in this thread
- #02 Role of the Parent - Supporting the academic journey 6 February 2022
- #03 Focus on the Individual - Building confidence 6 February 2022
- #05 Maths and English - Personalised tutoring 6 February 2022
- #07 CAPS, IEB, NSC, Cambridge - What do they all actually mean? 6 February 2022
All topics and episodes of Understanding Extra Lessons with Kip McGrath