Examination of secondary school students process of private lesson

Curriculums are the main source of guidance for teachers in terms of planning, application and evaluation of teaching in accordance with the objectives. The purpose of this research is to examine the need of getting private lessons and analyze the steps of planning and execution of the program designed for the individual student by looking into the views of parents, students and teachers. This research is a qualitative study that aims to determine how the planning, executing and evaluation processes of private lessons are carried out according to the views of teachers, students and parents. For the research a case study pattern was used. This research was carried out by the views of 17 different private/public school teachers (each teaching a different subject) in Düzce in the school year of 2017-2018 and 24 students that attend/graduated from private/public schools and 4 parents who pay for private lessons for their children. To investigate the problem in a broader context, maximum variety method (a sub-method for purposeful exemplification method) was used. The research suggests that private tutors are keen on carrying out their lessons according to a plan, but they do not actually create a written text or program. But it is right to say that some tutors do not feel the need to create a plan at all. It might lead to the thought that some tutors aren't as qualified as others. The factors that shape the planning procedure are tutor's-student's-parents' active participation in the process and the state of readiness and personal differences that the student has. According to the research, private lessons can regulate the student's daily personalized learning time, lead to more active participation in class, provide useful tips for guidance, create a certain pressure, ensure studying according to a certain goal, help with homework tracking and reviewing lessons with more practice questions. This way learning is more effective and permanent. Having an effective learning environment depends on planning the lessons according to the adjustment of readiness of the student, usage of the sources and materials that are parallel to the student's needs and interests and lastly application of suitable teaching forms for that specific student. It has been concluded that effective use of evaluation activities in the tutoring process has a positive effect on academic achievement. In the privet lessons lesson, parents are not realistic about the process or cannot follow the process adequately; It was concluded that students who had to take private lessons with family pressure developed unstable and contradictory attitudes. Effective communication, academic achievement and positive attitude towards the course are the main objectives of learning and teaching process. Students, teachers and parents see it as an obligation to get private tutoring to support school and to create and advantage for national examinations and thus students tend to get private lessons. When it comes to selecting a good tutor, certain traits can be: having good knowledge of the subject; create a positive learning environment, have the ability to manage and evaluate learning-teaching processes successfully; communicate effectively with the student; to act according to the needs of the student; be reliable; provide psychological support to students and provide guidance; be known; to have positive personality traits; to enjoy his/her work and to reflect this to the student; not being insensitive to the student. It boosts the students' motivation and the feeling of being safe when the tutor raises successful students. This way, students have a positive change in their academic success. Ny this context, it is possible to say that some external factors can affect the students however some students do not get effected and it leads to a change in their academic success. This group of students claim that success comes with studying willingly. In this context, the students who take on the responsibility of getting private lessons get effected by internal factors. Key words: Private Tutoring, One-on-one Learning, Curriculum.