Online Shia Quran Tutors for Kids

My son has always struggled to sit still for anything longer than fifteen minutes, and honestly, that was the exact reason I nearly didn't sign him up. We had tried two other online tutors before ShiaEdu, and both times it fizzled out within a month once the novelty wore off. I assumed the problem was him. It took me a while to realise the problem was actually the lack of any real structure to hold his attention.

What changed things was the level test in the very first week. Instead of just starting from "wherever," his teacher placed him properly, then laid out what letter recognition, fluency and Tajweed actually looked like as separate, visible stages. My son is a boy who needs to see the ladder he's climbing, not just be told to keep going. Watching him move from stage two to stage three last month, and actually notice it himself, was the first time I'd seen him proud of Quran progress rather than just relieved a class was over.

I don't think it was a better teacher that fixed things, exactly — I think it was that someone finally treated his learning like something worth tracking properly, the same way his school does for maths or reading. If your child is anything like mine, I'd say the structure matters as much as the subject. The free trial class will show you within twenty minutes whether that structure clicks for your child too.

— A ShiaEdu Father, Toronto, Canada