How many days a week should we start with?

Three or four if the week allows it. Two is the floor at which a child stops spending the first part of each lesson remembering the last one.

Should I sit in on every lesson?

The first one, yes. After that, be nearby rather than beside them. You may join any lesson unannounced whenever you want to, and you do not have to tell anyone first.

My child was silent in the first lesson. Is that bad?

No, and a good teacher expects it. A first lesson where a shy child says a few words is a normal first lesson. What matters is whether they say more in the second.

What if the slot we picked turns out to be wrong?

Change it. Tell the teacher in your family group and it is moved. Most families change the time once in the first month and then keep it for years.

When will we see progress?

In the first month, look for the habit rather than the pages: your child expecting the lesson, and the same mistakes being corrected less often. Pages are the slowest and least useful thing to measure early on.

Do the free trial classes count as the first week?

They can. Many families use the three free classes as their first three days and carry straight on, keeping the same teacher and the same slot.

The First Week of Online Quran Classes

The short answer

The first week decides more than the first month. Set the slot before the first lesson rather than after, sit in on the first one, and by the end of the week check three things: that your child knows the teacher's name, that the teacher can name something specific your child gets wrong, and that the half hour was mostly your child's voice.

By Nauman Ahmed, Founder of Live Quran Lessons9 November 20262 min read

Before the first lesson

Pick the slot for the whole week, not lesson by lesson. A time that has to be agreed every day is a time that gets skipped.
Put the Google Meet link somewhere you can find in ten seconds.
Set up the corner: a table, headphones, and a wall rather than a room behind the child.
Tell your child who they are meeting and what will happen. A child who is surprised by a lesson spends it recovering.

What the first lesson is for

Not covering ground. The teacher is finding out what your child can already do, by asking and listening rather than by testing. Children usually know more than their parents think and less than they claim, and the first lesson is where that gets sorted out.

Sit in on this one. After a few weeks most children prefer you nearby rather than beside them, which is its own good sign, but the first lesson is yours to watch.

The five minutes a day that decide the month

Ask your child to read the day's page aloud to you, every day, for five minutes. You do not need to read Arabic; correcting is the teacher's job. What you provide is the habit, and it is the single thing that separates a child who finishes the Qaida in four months from one who takes ten.

What to check by Friday

Your child knows the teacher

By the third lesson they should know the teacher's name and expect them. If the teacher is still a stranger, say so.

The teacher knows your child

Ask what your child gets wrong most often. A specific answer means somebody is listening. A vague one is itself the answer.

Your child did the talking

A good one-to-one lesson is mostly the child reading aloud. If the teacher is doing most of the talking, you are paying for a lecture.

If the first week goes badly

Change the hour before you change anything else. A child who is flat at half past seven after homework is often a different child at half past four with a snack first. If it is still wrong after that, ask for a different teacher in your family group -- you are not asked why, and nothing about the request reaches the teacher as a complaint.

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