Founded in 1996, Siyuan is a long-established chain training institution in Shanghai. If another local institution in Shanghai is taking the high-end route, it can be said that Siyuan is a civilian route. The high level of teaching and auxiliary services and the affordable price make Siyuan occupy a place in the low-end training market in Shanghai. In recent years, Siyuan has won many awards, including Shanghai's outstanding extracurricular tutoring institution, excellent children's training brand, and the most influential extracurricular education institution.
Siyuan, which has been established for many years, has a relatively strict teacher selection mechanism. All teachers of Siyuan hold teacher qualification certificates, and most of the teachers come from key universities in China, and all of them have a bachelor's degree or above. Siyuan claims that more than 80% of the teachers have more than 5 years of teaching experience, and some of the teachers are also members of the Shanghai teaching and research group. Candidates need to pass interviews, written examinations, and auditions by senior teachers and deans. Siyuan will conduct standardized training and assessment for qualified candidates, and the final acceptance rate is about 5%. In addition to strict selection, Siyuan implements a teacher evaluation system, and selects outstanding teachers every month to improve teaching enthusiasm. Siyuan also attaches great importance to the student's evaluation of the teacher, and if the student is not satisfied with the teacher, he can replace him immediately and unconditionally.
Siyuan's teaching and research team is composed of teaching and research experts and front-line backbone teachers, and has creatively proposed the "rapid learning method", which combines comprehensive elements such as multiple intelligences, mind maps and psychological counseling to mobilize students' enthusiasm and improve learning efficiency. However, according to parents, this method is only an improvement of the conventional learning method, and does not improve the learning effect much.
Siyuan's teaching methods are rich, including 1-to-1, 1-to-2, small classes and large classes. In the 1-to-1 and 1-to-2 courses, teachers first understand the students' subject learning ability, intellectual and non-intellectual factors that affect learning, and design targeted teaching plans. In the teaching process, check and fill in the gaps, teach learning methods, etc. At the same time, teachers will provide parents with periodic learning reports, and in addition, Siyuan will assign class teachers to students to track their learning and urge them to complete their homework. If students have psychological problems, they can seek psychological counseling from Siyuan's psychologist.
Siyuan's business covers preschool, primary school, junior and senior high school tutoring, among which Siyuan Children is a brand that provides learning tutoring for children aged 3-12, including extracurricular tutoring courses such as children's English, mathematical thinking training, composition skills tutoring, and interest classes such as calligraphy and handicraft. Among them, SBS (side by side) English courses are more popular. Some schools ignore practical English education such as audio-visual and speaking, and many parents are dissatisfied and helpless about this. SBS focuses on communicative function training, integrates daily communication into English learning, and cultivates children's English communication skills. In addition, the textbooks used by SBS have a large vocabulary, which is a good supplement to the unified textbooks.
Siyuan Kids now has only 5 campuses in Xuhui District, Pudong District, Baoshan District and Minhang District. The small number of campuses makes it more troublesome for many parents to pick up and drop off their children to and from school. Siyuan's fees are not high, and the small class is about 150 yuan per person. However, the environment is average, and some campus facilities are old.
Price:
Small class: 150 RMB/1 session
1 to 1, 1 to 3: 200-400 yuan/1 session
