Parents of Hardworking Teens

Ep. 156 → 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. ___ A student was told they need to be filling 5 - 6 pages in order to hit top marks in their Commerce exam essay Q. Is that good advice? In this episode I explain: - Why it’s not about the word count o...

Ep. 155 → 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. ___ Going over the word limit in essays, assignments and reports is a common issue I see in knowledgeable, hardworking students. The biggest problem is the amount of extra work it means they are doing w...

Ep. 154 → 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. ___ Listen in for the top 10 ways that I've found to be the most effective in catapulting students' results AND confidence in a fast yet sustainable way. FEATURED ON THE SHOW:   Updated and up...

Ep. 153 → 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. ___ There's a significant difference between an 'inquiry' research task and a research 'project'. Treating an inquiry, report or any kind of research task in the upper years of...

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. ___ 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' i...

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. ___ 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 b...

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. ___ 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 ha...

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. ___ 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...

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. ___ 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...

Ep. 147 → 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. ___ Most students don’t lose marks because they lack knowledge. They lose marks because they don’t show enough depth . They’re told to “add more detail”…  So they write more. Repeat more. Ramble more. A...

- Ep. 146 → 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. ___ If your teen thinks they need more motivation before they can get stuck into a task, listen in. There are two things that will create and maintain momentum in your teen's study, WAY better th...

Ep. 145 -  → 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. ___ Where uncertainty lurks and hides, gently sabotaging your teens confidence and results: How to find it and how to turn it into clarity and confidence.   In this episode, you'll discover: The...

Ep. 144 -  → 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. ___ This recent Science assignment task proves why students should always START out on any assignment task with the thing they usually check LAST, if they want to: Avoid wasting time and effort on th...

Ep. 143 → 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. ___ The tips, insights and examples that may have flown under your radar this year, but I think you and your teen really, REALLY need to know. Listen in to discover: How to figure out what's actual...

Ep. 142 → 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. ___ I've just marked over 400 pages of student responses this year for the Y12 ATAR external exams. Listen in for my top 5 takeaways from that experience that I want all students and their parents...

Ep. 141 → 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. ___ Research can be a HUGE time sap for students. Whether it's researching information for an investigation, sources for an inquiry, or finding data for a report, finding relevant and high quality...

Ep. 140 → 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. ___ The focus of an assignment or project is not always what it first appears to be. Take this example: > Design a Photo Story about a particular topic related to food security.  It would make sense...

Ep. 139 → 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. ___ The third thing that totally changed how I see study, exams and assessment: - My experience as a NAPLAN Writing Test marker (and non-English specialist teacher). Listen in to discover: What the mark...

Ep. 138 → 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. ___ Discover the unexpected reaction of one student when I shared the insights and training in exam technique, mark schemes and rubric criteria, with one particular class. This was the moment I realised...

Ep. 137 → 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. ___ These are the 3 moments that started and then led me deep into the world of exams, exam marking, assessment and the discovery that subject knowledge alone isn't the key to academic success.   F...

Ep. 136 → 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. ___ Discover the critical thing your teen needs to know about any text they’re studying or analysing in English.  Whether it’s for an analytical essay on a novel or they’re preparing for an unseen text...

Ep. 135 → 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. ___ One of the biggest hurdles, unintentional time wasters, and causes of lost marks is: lack of clarity on a task, essay question or assignment. In this episode I share specific ways I check on student...

Ep. 134 → 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. ___ If your teen's losing marks in exams due to small slips or silly mistakes under time pressure, then listen in to a real student story where we needed to dig deeper to identify the exact issues...

Ep. 133 → 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. ___ There are three groups of skills that generate the two outcomes almost all students and their parents want. Discover what they are, why they create a double-whammy outcome and how your teen can mast...

Ep. 132 → 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. ___ What to do with sources when they’re provided in an exam, inquiry report or for an extended response.  Discover the trap that many students fall into and what they need to do instead. FEATURED ON TH...