Is it too late right now to make a difference? If your teen is in Y9 right now then you might be thinking hmmm, maybe end of Y10 things need to get serious.
If they’re in Y12 then maybe it’s more like hmmm – End of term, end of year?
Final minutes of exam?! (Joking) 😉
Or maybe you’re thinking they may have already missed the boat? That it’s too late to make any significant difference to their results or approach to their study and exams…
Watch the video to find out.
The way I like to share the love is to provide a lot of free tips, resources and training to all the parents out there who want to help their teenagers get happy, smart and successful.
So I thought I’d remind you of what I currently have available in the hope that if you have something somewhere that you haven’t gotten around to checking out yet, then you might go dig it out and who knows, perhaps it’ll have a small but oh so powerful nugget of gold that could help your teen.
PLUS!… I’ve set a goal and I’d really appreciate your help!! 🙂
Here’s the link I promised to my Term 1 Parent webinar!…
www.gradetransformation.com/t1webinar
The biggest jumps in marks and grades are often not in the writing stage.
They are in the edit and proof-reading stage.
This is also one of the easiest ways to get more marks or jump a grade boundary without needing to research more info, or add more content.
It’s also a great way for parents to help out their teen, without doing work for them.
Rather than series of ‘passive’ conversations, what if those parent-teacher meetings were more useful, with clear actions and ways to determine and where and how your teen can really start to thrive?
Your teen sits down to write their short story/essay/speech/ insert whatever task you like here 🙂
And 15 minutes later they’ve not done anything.
There might even be mumblings of:
“I just don’t know how to start”
or “ I’m no GOOD at writing essays/stories/speeches – #insert your version here!”
You spend a few minutes trying to give them some encouragement or ideas but then afterwards,
They spend another 10 minutes staring at the screen, wondering
what to write, wondering where to start.
I’ve seen it so many times in the classroom and with tutoring students.
So I want to let you in on a little secret that has worked wonders for my students…
Many parents I speak to who’ve enrolled their child in the 10 Week Grade Transformation Program tell me – “they don’t want their friends to know they’re doing your program”.
Which, by the way – means there are some really amazing success stories that you’ll never hear about for this very reason!…
I get it.
As a teenager – I was wired to be a good kid, I naturally wanted to please my teachers and parents and was brought up to do my best. But I was fairly shy (yes – really) and I definitely didn’t want to put myself ‘out there’. I just wanted to blend in.
But you know, I think there is more to it than not wanting to be labelled a geek by classmates or being laughed at for actually choosing to work hard and achieve good grades.
I think there is an element that is present in all of us that makes us reluctant to share our achievements or goals. Hear my thoughts in the video.
Exams have regularly come under criticism for being an unfair way to test students’ knowledge and understanding of subjects.
It’s certainly true that when it comes to ‘showing what they know’, some students find the exam style of assessment really tough.
My take on it is this:-
Rather than focusing on exams being a way to simply test KNOWLEDGE, or even getting angry at the testing system, we need to look at exams as actually assessing a range of SKILLS that are involved with successfully sitting exams (not just subject knowledge).
If we do that then we are well on our way to viewing exams more positively and constructively.
Have you had to put on ‘that’ excited face at any point recently?
When a gift wasn’t quite what you wanted.
But you don’t want to look ungrateful.
Hopefully not, but chances are many of us have at some point.
But, what’s this got to do your studying and your teen?
Well, it’s about figuring out how to give people what they *reeeallllyy* want.
For students, it’s all about what examiners want and NEED to see to award top grades…. and sussing out exactly how to give it to them EVERY time (gift-wrapped and tied in a bow)!
So, New Year is upon us and this means lots of talk of goal setting, planning and leaping ahead full steam into 2017.
(And I LOVE planning)
BUT… before we dive in to NEXT year it’s also important to reflect on the year just gone. To smile about and celebrate the successes, and acknowledge the parts that may not have quite gone to plan or weren’t so great.
So that we learn from our experiences.
And can consider how to use those lessons to overcome similar hurdles next year.
Why was it that those disappointments happened, why those goals weren’t achieved? What was the success factor in the goals that WERE achieved?
I’m here – in full festive spirit – and thought I’d use CHRISTMAS to produce a little summary and some of the key strategies I’ve been sharing this year.
