"Learn in an hour what your class tries to learn in a week.”
This quote is not an exaggeration. A teacher with a class of 20-30 students is forced to pace the class to suit the lower 50% of the class, if not the lower 25% of the class. Leaving behind these students is not an option and assuring their success is an expected priority.
Classroom management issues centered on less motivated or even just frustrated students is an inevitable distraction.
Student absenteeism, sometimes chronic, is a daily source of a slower pace in the class. These students, having missed building block concepts, require attention to get them back on track with the rest of the class.
All these factors that slow the pace of the class significantly affects the continuity and flow of information for capable motivated students poised and ready to proceed. It is comparable to listening to someone talking extremely slowly or watching a show with incessant commercials.
In a one-on-one tutoring session, checking for understanding and filling in the spaces on each concept can be done very quickly. Instruction can be tailored to the student’s particular learning style and disposition. Encouragement and motivation can be personalized effectively. Coaching the finer points of each concept can be well placed and in context as the student works through problems. Within a session, there are many opportunities for quick asides to suggest good organization, study skills, and memorization strategies as may specifically apply to the student.
A classroom student simply will not consistently receive these benefits in a classroom setting, if they receive them at all.
As a result, in a tutoring session with an experienced teacher, the student learns more thoroughly at a much faster rate in a manner tailored to their learning style and disposition. And with the encouragement and coaching only possible in a one-on-one interaction.