One-to-One Tuition: Why It Works for Your Child
Key takeaway: One-to-one tuition builds confidence and leads to real progress. One-to-one tuition. It’s simple, but powerful. Focused time, support and feedback create meaningful impact. The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), one of the world’s most trusted research organisations, found that this approach can lead to five months of extra progress on average. For many students,…
Acing HSC Exams: Responding to a Stimulus
Key takeaway: Prepare the middle. Address the stimulus at the beginning and end. Hit the stimulus at the beginning and end. Creative writing. It can feel like a daunting task, especially during exams. You spend all year honing your writing skills, developing your voice, and constructing a piece of writing and then… You’re put in…
Three Pillars of Motivation
Key takeaway: Students are motivated by social status and acceptance. Learning needs to be made purposeful and challenging. The key to student motivation is to foster a growth mindset, reframe stress and develop a purposeful approach to learning. Here are three strategies we can use to foster student motivation. Transparency Statements Explain why activities matter and…
Spaced rituals
Key takeaway: Creating spaced retrieval habits makes learning stick. It’s not just science that states regular, spaced practice helps you learn. It’s common sense. We know it to be true in sports and music as well as education. So why is it so hard? The answer is a complex mix of motivation, a desire for…
4 Steps to short answer success
Short answers can be the most challenging section to build confidence and strategies for success. In the following post we outline how to approach questions so you can give yourself the best opportunity to maximise your results. The 4 steps are: Step One: Answering the Question Key idea: Don’t waste too much time or space.…
Read-Think-Rethink
Reading can be a struggle. Actually, everyone has always struggled with reading. We’ve only been doing it for a couple of hundred years as a species. The issue is, that when we are taught reading in high school, decoding, comprehension and analysis tend to be all bundled together. So, a student is expected to be…
RETHINK LEARNING 