For reading, one to one wins, because Tajweed is corrected sound by sound and a child in a group of eight reads out loud for a few minutes at most. What a group gives that one to one cannot is company, and that is worth keeping through a weekend class or a masjid circle rather than through the daily lesson.
What the maths does to a group lesson
Take an hour-long group class with eight children. Even if every minute is used and every child gets an equal share, that is seven or eight minutes of reading each, and the rest is listening to other children read.
A 30-minute one-to-one lesson is 30 minutes of your child reading and being corrected. That is the whole difference, and it is why a shorter private lesson moves a child faster than a longer group one.
Where the group still wins
- Friends. A child who knows other children are learning the same thing does not feel singled out.
- Community. A masjid or weekend school gives a child a place, which an online lesson cannot.
- Cost. Group classes are cheaper, and for some families that decides it.
Plenty of our families use both, and that is a sensible arrangement rather than a compromise: the weekend class for the company, the weekday lesson for the reading.
What to check if an academy says one to one
- Is it one child and one teacher, or one teacher and siblings sharing a screen?
- Is the lesson live, or a recording with a teacher checking in?
- Is it the same teacher every week?
- Can you watch a lesson without arranging it first?
Related
Quran classes for siblings
One at a time, or together?
Keeping kids focused in an online class
What to do when attention drifts.
Quran classes for kids
The course page for children.