Our Courses

These are our current courses arranged by audience.Please select the link following each description to contact us for more details.

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Thinking and learning skills for success at school.

Students learn about the structure and function of brain and mind and the processes of thinking and learning and learn how to distinguish between different thinking styles, apply specific thinking strategies to specific problems, identify in detail their own most effective style of learning, create a positive attitude towards learning, make memorable classroom and study notes, shift information into long term memory, apply what has been learned and continually improve their own learning processes.   [Contact Lance King for further information]

Exam Confidence - for Year 10 - 13 students (ages 14 - 18 years)

Practical skills for achieving well in all assessments and examinations:

Students will learn how to: reflect on, and learn from past assessment experience, keep focused and motivated throughout the year, overcome obstacles and challenges to study, create an effective study plan, set up their home study environment, find web resources to suit their own learning style, use key word summarising, overcome exam nerves, and use good exam room technique.   [Contact Lance King for further information]

Learning Resilience - for Year 9 - 13 students (ages 13 - 18 years) including those identified as 'Gifted and Talented'

A practical investigation of thinking

Student explore thinking in general and their own thinking in particular, the nature of intelligence and talent and the potential for development, the characteristics of resilience, thinking strategies for overcoming challenges and coping with difficulties, the role of belief and attribution in motivation, an experiential process for learning from mistakes, the connections between locus of control, optimism and pessimism, vulnerability and resilience, practical strategies for becoming a more resilient learner.   [Contact Lance King for further information]

Higher Learning - for Year 12 and 13 students (ages 16 - 18 years)

The organisation and high speed information processing skills needed for success at a high academic level

On this course students learn how to manage their time effectively, overcome procrastination, process academic information quickly and effectively, make summaries of key information and greatly increase both their general reading speed and their comprehension of what they read.   [Contact Lance King for further information]

Memory Skills - for Year 4, 5 & 6 students (ages 8-11 years) - understanding and improving memory

On this course students learn how memory works, how to improve their own general, short and long term memory and specific memory techniques for remembering information at school   [Contact Lance King for further information]

After each student learning course one of our facilitators can be available to run a one hour after-school seminar for teaching staff for no charge. This seminar is to introduce teachers to the learning skills we have taught the students and to show them ways they can reinforce the resilience building approach in the classroom. There is no limit on numbers for this session   [Contact Lance King for further information]

Developing Resilient Learners - for all teachers

This one-day (5 - 6 hour) course will show all teachers how to help their students develop into resilient learners.

On this course teachers will learn solid, practical, research based teaching and learning techniques to use in the classroom to help their students to develop more resilience, gain more understanding from their subjects, retain that information and improve their academic success:

Course content includes:
- how to tap into the full potential of every child’s brain and mind
- how to teach children to be self-motivating and goal seeking
- developing challenge seeking and task acceptance behaviours
- engaging the application of effort
- teaching the process of learning from failure
- developing the flexibility of intelligence
- making sure subject delivery helps develop the flexibility of learning style
- teaching strategies to enhance memory and the retention of content
- the use of student evaluation to improve teaching practice.   [Contact Lance King for further information]

The other main strand of this programme involves the parents of your students. Research shows clearly that one of the most important determinants of student success at school is parental involvement but many parents don't know how to get involved effectively. To help with this (for any school that books courses on consecutive days) we are available to run a free ninety minute seminar for parents in the evening following a student course. This evening seminar is not just for the parents of students enrolled in our courses but is for any school parents and will show them how they can support their children's learning at home and help them achieve greater success at school.   [Contact Lance King for further information]