Webinar:
How to bring out the best in your kids academically.
Dear Educators/School Counselors,
We appreciate your interest in our webinar, How to bring out the best in your kids academically.
Offering this webinar to the parents of your students will:
- Help improve student outcomes.
- Reduce teacher/faculty stress.
- Be appreciated by the parents of your school.
Here’s what we’ll be going over:
- About the webinar: the length, how it’s delivered, what exactly is covered (main slides and talking points), and how it will help your students.
- About us: a brief summary about our experience and background in education.
- How to proceed: what the next steps are for offering it to your school.
1. About the webinar
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:
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- 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.
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Webinar length: 60 – 90 mins (with Q&A)
How it’s delivered: Online, live via zoom.
Webinar content:
Section 1: The 5 Student Mindsets
- The 5 Student Mindsets:
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- How each mindset starts to form, according to the motivation cycle, and the perception of the child.
- Overview of the characteristics of each mindset.
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- 2 Aspects of guiding kids to their academic potential:
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- Teaching and coaching them when they are already amenable to learning.
- Emotional and behavioral management when they are not amenable to learning yet.
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Section 2: The 4 Stages of the Learning Process
- About the 4 Stages of the Learning Process:
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- Learning.
- Familiarizing.
- Believing.
- Challenging.
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- The Learning stage:
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- 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.
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- The Familiarizing stage:
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- Allow kids to use their notes while practicing.
- Create processes to follow (like in the picture).
- Ask them to find their own mistakes.
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- The Believing stage:
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- 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?”
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- The Challenging stage:
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- Ask them to do harder problems.
- Use timers to make easy work challenging.
- Have a friendly competition with them.
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Section 3: Tips for Emotional/Behavioral Management
- Tips for helping kids manage their emotions:
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- 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.
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- Example for teaching self accountability
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- Communicating influentially with kids.
- Influential communication successfully persuades the other person to adopt the message as their own.
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- Benefits of influentially communicating with kids.
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- Conflicts strengthen the bond, rather than weakening it.
- Greater influence over their decisions.
- Improve their self esteem and motivation without power struggles.
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- Developing the skill of influential communication.
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- 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.
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How it will help your students:
Improved academic performance
Confidence, self esteem & motivation
Improved parent-child relationship
Facilitate better mental health
2. About us
Ava Sharma
Ava is a passionate Mindset Coach and former educator of over 10 years.
Working one-on-one with hundreds of kids for over a decade has given her the chance to observe the role that emotions play in their decisions and motivation, academically and behavior wise.
After realizing how pervasive low motivation and self esteem were in her students and clients, and how much it would block their potential, she started working on a curriculum and coaching programs that would help kids develop a growth mindset.
Ava Sharma
Mindset Coach for kids.
Nicole Santiago
Family and Executive Function Coach
Nicole Santiago
Nicole is a Family and Executive Function coach, author and mom of 3.
As a former public school educator (MCPS, Maryland), Nicole managed ADHD on the home front and in the classroom. She is a strong advocate for neurodiversity and is an inattentive ADHDer, herself.
Nicole coaches 2e children virtually in San Antonio, TX, and she writes about mental health, parenting, education, and entrepreneurship on her blog.
3. Booking the webinar for your school
Offering this webinar to the parents of your students will:
- Help improve student outcomes.
- Reduce teacher/faculty stress.
- Be appreciated by the parents of your school.
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