Parents of Hardworking Teens

Ep. 152
→ Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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I'm a big fan of making the biggest difference to results and confidence,
in the simplest, most efficient and effective ways.

This example of how to make essays 'more sophisticated' is a great example of this:
> One strategy that demonstrates multiple capabilities means your teen can significantly elevate their response to help meet top level descriptors, such as

- an EXTENSIVE knowledge to support an argument

- a DEEP understanding of subject knowledge

and
- a SOPHISTICATED, sustained argument that answers the Q

... all with their existing subject knowledge,
and without any fancy writing or re-writing of the essay content. 

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Ep. 151 - 
→ Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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I was initially surprised by this student's reaction to finding out exactly why he 'only' (in his words) got a C grade on a section of his Business assignment. 
I expected him to be frustrated at the situation or annoyed at me for showing all the things he hadn't  done (and how obvious it looked after). 
But that's not what happened at all.
It's good to be reminded of just what a difference discovering the real reasons they're not getting results that match their ability and effort can make to students. It's the very first step in changing that and it's an exciting one!

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Episode 4: Essays That Actually Answer The Question
Episode 9: Just Do Your Best' - And Other Things They Don't Wanna Hear
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Ep. 150
→ Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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I spend a LOT of time hammering students about making a plan before they start writing any kind of extended response, report analysis, essay, or discussion piece. 
There are a lot of instincts we have to override in order to spend time and energy on a plan.
Especially for a timed task, a task we already feel confident in, or at the other end, a task we really don't want to do.
Those instincts tell us it'll take too much time, too much effort to write out a detailed plan. Time and effort that could be spent actually writing the thing. Or they tell us 'we know what we're doing, so we don't need to'. 
But those instincts are misguided. 
Listen in for the reality of the situation - and the benefits that far outweigh the time and effort cost.

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Ep. 149
→ Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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What does baking have to do with your teen's study?
These words, are what:
“I’m calm. I’m in the zone. I know how to do this.”
How can we make those the words in your teen's mind when they're queuing up outside the exam hall, given a new analytical essay, or faced with a 2000 word open assignment task?
By installing these 3 key systems in their brain and study toolkit:
- Exam Technique
- Essays and Extended Responses
- Strategic Study Systems
and building them in the order that makes most sense for each student personally given where they're at, what they're going to be working on next and their longer term goals. 

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Ep. 148 
→ Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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I often have parents and students feed back to me that the skills they pick up from my trainings and programs are also super-helpful in uni, but not having teaching experience at that level, I tend to avoid getting too much into any university study advice!
But... I also know that a lot of hardworking students go on to university study.
So, when Dr Hilary Coleman emailed me, a former school teacher turned senior uni lecturer who now helps students and their parents successfully navigate the transition to university, I figured that having her perspective could be really valuable to link these things together. 
So, if your teen has recently started uni, or is planning on or considering uni after high school or college, and you’d love to make the transition as smooth as possible and set your teen up for their best possible academic success at uni, then this episode is for you.

PLUS! Hilary has kindly offered FREE access to her 'The Ultimate University Intro' course for podcast listeners: 
Join here: https://www.udemy.com/course/the-ultimate-university-intro-prepare-for-uni/?couponCode=PARENTPOD
 And use coupon code: PARENTPOD

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