Who it’s for:

•  Parents of Elementary, Middle, and High School children (grades K-12).
•  Parents that feel their child is not living up to their academic potential, or, if they are, parents that would like to ensure that trend continues.
•  Parents that are actively involved in their child’s academic progress, whether they:
  • •  Work with their child on homework and preparation for school.
    •  Help their child stay up-to-date with their classes.
    •  Stay in contact with their child’s teachers.
    • All of the above.

Webinar length: 60 – 90 mins (with Q&A)

How it’s delivered:  Online, live via zoom.

Section 1:  The 5 Student Mindsets

• The 5 Student Mindsets:
  • • How each mindset starts to form, according to the motivation cycle, and the perception of the child.
    • Overview of the characteristics of each mindset.
• 2 Aspects of guiding kids to their academic potential:
  • • Teaching and coaching them when they are already amenable to learning.
    • Emotional and behavioral management when they are not amenable to learning yet.

Section 2:  The 4 Stages of the Learning Process

• About the 4 Stages of the Learning Process:
  • • Learning.
    • Familiarizing.
    • Believing.
    • Challenging.
• The Learning stage:
  • • Using the format that works best for your child (textbooks vs. videos vs. audio).
    • Re-do problems.
    • Ask them to teach concepts to you.
    • Take breaks as needed.
• The Familiarizing stage:
  • • Allow kids to use their notes while practicing.
    • Create processes to follow (like in the picture).
    • Ask them to find their own mistakes.
• The Believing stage:
  • • Take away their notes.
    • Encourage them to self affirm when they feel intimidated.
    • Do mini-quizzes.
    • Ask questions like “on a scale of 1-10, how much effort did you put in?”
• The Challenging stage:
  • • Ask them to do harder problems.
    • Use timers to make easy work challenging.
    • Have a friendly competition with them.

Section 3:  Tips for Emotional/Behavioral Management

• Tips for helping kids manage their emotions:
  • • Reminder that learning is a sensitive process.
    • Praise them for being hard working, rather than smart.
    • Importance of monitoring our own perceptions about their strengths and weaknesses.
    • Focusing on teaching self accountability, rather than being accountable to us.
• Example for teaching self accountability
  • • Communicating influentially with kids.
    • Influential communication successfully persuades the other person to adopt the message as their own. 
• Benefits of influentially communicating with kids.
  • • Conflicts strengthen the bond, rather than weakening it.
    • Greater influence over their decisions.
    • Improve their self esteem and motivation without power struggles.
• Developing the skill of influential communication.
  • • Understand their perspective and the dynamic of each person’s position in a conflict.
    • Search for persuasive examples that resemble the same positioning.
    • Delineate the strategy that was used.
    • Apply the same strategy to your conflict.