Procedure
Most Kumon students follow this simple procedure which
is explained in more detail below:
Enrollment and
diagnostic test
Attend
KUMON of Loggers Run Center twice a week (Monday and Thursday)
Between 10 and
20 minutes
work at home on non-class days
The Enrollment
The enrollment is an opportunity for your Kumon
Instructor to spend some time taking you and your child through the program and
explaining the Kumon Method in detail.
During the enrollment, your child will take a diagnostic
test or tests to determine their starting point within the program. The results
of this test determine their individual start point. The starting point should
be easy for them, to ensure that they can begin with 100% scores. This immediate
success boosts confidence and helps them to get into a good daily routine in the
early days. It also ensures that there are no gaps in their foundation
knowledge, which could hamper their progress later on.
Once the enrollment is completed and the Instructor has
determined your child's Easy Starting Point, they are ready to begin studying
Kumon!
Enrollments are very important since they form the basis
for each student's development with the Kumon Program. Wherever possible they
should be attended by both parents (if applicable) to ensure that everyone
understands what Kumon is about.
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AT THE KUMON CENTER
KUMON of Loggers Run Center is open after school on two
afternoons a week every Monday and Thursday between 2:00pm and
7:00pm. Students attend the Kumon Center for approximately 25 minutes/subject each time they
visit.
At class, the students usually follow the following
routine:
- They
give in homework completed over the previous few days.
- They
collect their work for that day and their homework for the next few days.
- They
sit down for between 10 and 20 minutes and do their work for that day. When
they have finished their worksheets for that day, they hand the work in to
be graded.
- Whilst
they are waiting for their work to be graded, students can do an educational
activity.
- When
they have completed their work successfully, students will receive praise
and reward by either stickers and also Kumon Dollars from the Instructor and then they are ready to go
home.
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AT HOME
Kumon is a year-round program which ideally means
that students do their work 7 days a week 365 days a year! Since the students
would normally attend a Kumon Center twice a week, this means that they do their
work at home on the other five days. Each piece of work should take the student
between 10 and 20 minutes per subject to complete. On the days that students do their work
at home, their parents are asked to grade the work (answer books provided). It is
not necessary to 'teach' the students at home. Home grading helps to increase
parents' awareness of their child's progress and gives them an opportunity to
praise their child. The home-work is carefully pitched and selected by the
Instructor to enable the students to take each little step on their own -
encouragement and supervision at a distance should be all that is necessary from
the parent!
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REWARDS AND MOTIVATION
A student's main motivation for continuing to study
comes from succeeding on the worksheets, since they should be able to achieve
100% or close to it every day. Students also only do a little each day, so they
should never feel stressed or overburdened by their Math and/or Reading exercises. Receiving
frequent praise from both parents and Instructor is also very important to a
child's motivation.
As students learn the joy that comes from success and
develop a good study habit, they begin to experience the "joy of
learning" which is highly motivational.
Kumon provides supplementary materials to help motivate
students; for example, a reward system of stickers, prizes, certificates and
Kumon Dollars;
regular holiday challenges to help maintain the daily study habit during the
school breaks. Kumon produces a regular student's newsletter with features and
competitions, and there is also a newsletter for parents!
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