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Some parents say they are satisfied with the results. And what about the children?
India was once a colony in the British Empire. But now Indian tutors are helping to teach math to some British children over high-speed Internet connections.
So math -- or, as the British call it,louboutin, maths -- is still not everyone's favorite subject even with the latest technology to teach it.
BrightSpark Education says the online tutoring is utilized unique as an addition to supplement regular teaching. The company says its service does not represent a threat to teachers’ jobs in Britain.
And that's the VOA Special English Education Report. You can watch a video of the online tutoring by going to voaspecialenglish.com. I'm Steve Ember.
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TOM HOOPER: "Children today feel very confident online,louboutin pas cher, they feel very engaged, they feel very in control. And that’s half the battle with education. Give them control,moncler pas cher, make them feel confident and enjoy their learning and you’ll see them start to improve and embrace it."
SAMIA ABDUL-KADIR: "It helps me because sometimes when we’re doing it in class, I don’t hear the teacher very much and I don’t understand,casque beats, but online is better."
Online tutoring costs between twenty and twenty-five dollars an hour. An online tutor is about half the cost of traditional face-to-face coaching.
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CHILDREN: "I love it!" "I love it!" "I hate maths!"
ABDUL-FADIL BADORI: "Online,louboutin, you can hear it,louboutin pas cher, it’s not shared by everyone, everyone has different topics they’re learning."
Each pupil gets an individual online tutor. The students work with activities on their computer screen and wear a headset and microphone to talk to their tutor.
Nine-year-old Samia Abdul-Kadir says she enjoys the online lessons.
Early results suggest that online tutoring may improve student performance. But not everyone is happy at this so-called outsourcing of tutors.
KEVIN COURTNEY: "We think there’s something that's a really important emotional connection between a teacher and a child, whether it’s a entire class or whether it’s one-to-one. You need that immediacy of feedback,franklin marshall, and we’re not convinced that that can happen across an Internet connection. In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, we think that we can afford to have teachers with the genuine emotional connection there with the children."
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
ALTUS BASSON: " Children who struggle to focus in class focus a lot better on the laptops."
Pupils at Raynham Primary School in London for their after-school math lesson20 April 2011
But some people say an Internet connection is not enough of a connection for teaching and learning. Kevin Courtney is deputy general secretary of Britain's National Union of Teachers.
Tom Hooper started the company that provides the online tutoring. The company is called BrightSpark Education.
Their classroom teacher, Altus Basson,casque dr dre, says he has seen an improvement in consequences.
It’s three thirty in the afternoon at Raynham Primary School in London. Students are gathering for their after-school math lesson.
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