Gymnasium tutoring Zurich

Tuto­ring at gym­na­si­um level is very com­mon. Your child has alre­a­dy achie­ved a lot—that’s why they’re in gym­na­si­um. Howe­ver, it’s nor­mal not to be equal­ly good in every subject—and at gym­na­si­um the ran­ge of sub­jects is broad and the level is high. That’s why it’s worth sti­cking with it now, so your child rea­ches their goal: the Matura. 

When does gymnasium tutoring make sense?

• The tran­si­ti­on into gym­na­si­um was clo­se and you want to give your child the smoot­hest pos­si­ble start, or ensu­re they pass the pro­ba­ti­on period.
• Your child is going through puber­ty and other inte­rests beco­me more important than school. Gra­des get worse, which fur­ther redu­ces moti­va­ti­on to learn. A nega­ti­ve cycle threa­tens to deve­lop, and it’s important to break it early. 
• Some wea­k­er sub­jects cau­se ongo­ing dif­fi­cul­ties and put a strain on the over­all gra­de average.
• Your child bene­fits from some sup­port with “cramming” for exams.
• It’s crunch time—your child needs good gra­des in the Matu­ra. We prepa­re stu­dents spe­ci­fi­cal­ly for the Matu­ra exam. We’re also hap­py to simu­la­te the situa­ti­on of an oral exam with your child. 

Gymnasium tutoring must be goal-oriented

Tuto­ring at Gym­na­si­um level depends great­ly on the student’s age and stage of deve­lo­p­ment. In the lower years, the foun­da­ti­on for the rest of their time at Gymi is laid, so tuto­ring must be desi­gned for the long term—meaning we place gre­at value on ensu­ring that the rele­vant know­ledge is tru­ly inter­na­li­sed and unders­tood, and we teach the child stra­te­gies for suc­cessful inde­pen­dent learning. It pays off to pro­ceed step by step so that moti­va­ti­on is main­tai­ned and the stu­dent expe­ri­en­ces a sen­se of self-effi­ca­cy through their own suc­ces­ses. In the hig­her years, whe­re stu­dents are alre­a­dy used to per­for­mance-ori­en­ted learning, tuto­ring can often be very tar­ge­ted and effi­ci­ent and can be limi­t­ed to explai­ning, che­cking, quiz­zing and revising—with rapid impro­ve­ments in grades. 

General tutoring methodology

Whe­re it makes sen­se, we try to stick to the fol­lo­wing learning strategy.

1. Get an over­view: What is it about?
2. Make a con­nec­tion: How does the con­tent rela­te to me, what’s my stance on it?
3. Work through it, learn: Facts are not only inter­na­li­sed, but also ques­tio­ned and ana­ly­sed, and lin­ked to what has alre­a­dy been learned.
4. Deepe­ning pha­se: The con­tent is deepe­ned through repe­ti­ti­on and practice.
5. Trans­fer know­ledge: The mate­ri­al is now fami­li­ar and it can (and should!) be lin­ked to new ide­as, con­tent and concepts.

Would you like to book a free trial lesson?

A free tri­al les­son can take place at Open Learning Space Zurich, online, or by arran­ge­ment at your home. After­wards, you deci­de whe­ther your child would like to work with the tea­cher and what form the fur­ther gym­na­si­um tuto­ring should take. 

After that, the tuto­ring les­sons are usual­ly boo­ked in packa­ges of 10 les­sons each. This has pro­ven effec­ti­ve becau­se, in our expe­ri­ence, a smal­ler num­ber of tuto­ring les­sons is usual­ly not enough to make noti­ceable pro­gress. In excep­tio­nal cases, howe­ver, a smal­ler num­ber of les­sons can also be arran­ged. Tuto­ring can take place at Open Learning Space, online, or by arran­ge­ment at your home. 

Does your child need sup­port with gym­na­si­um pre­pa­ra­ti­on? We’ll be hap­py to advi­se you wit­hout obli­ga­ti­on and inform you about our spe­ci­fic offers.