Pages are the worst measure and the one everyone uses. Track three things instead: whether your child can read something unseen, whether the same mistakes are still being corrected, and what stage the teacher says they are on. A month of no new pages can be real progress; a month of new pages can be none.
Three things worth watching
Unseen reading
Once a month, ask the teacher to have your child read a line they have not seen. That, not the page count, is the measure.
Repeat mistakes
Listen for the corrections. If the same two letters are being fixed in March that were being fixed in January, say so.
The named stage
Letters, joined letters, harakat, rules, then the Quran. Ask which one, and what comes next.
The monthly question
One message to the teacher, once a month: “Which stage is she on now, what is the next one, and what should I listen for at home?” Three answers, two minutes, and a class that cannot drift for a whole term without anyone noticing.
A teacher who cannot answer that clearly is telling you something. A teacher who answers it in detail is worth keeping even if the pages are slow.
Signs a class has stalled
- The same page for several weeks with no explanation of why.
- Your child cannot tell you what they did in the lesson.
- Every lesson ends with “good, very good” and no correction at all.
- You are never told anything unless you ask.
None of these mean the teacher is bad. All of them mean a conversation is overdue, and most of them are fixed in one.
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