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 and7:00pm. 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 HOMEKumon 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 topraise 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 achieve100% 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 theschool breaks. Kumon produces a regular student's newsletter with features and competitions, and there is also a newsletter for parents!
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