minds@work by jeremy
raising a child
The work begins after recognizing the stressors. Many systems are designed of how average students learn. But there is no average student. Every child has a unique learning need and when a family doesn’t recognise this variability, it locks many students out of opportunity to build knowledge.
When children themselves learn to focus on effort and strategies, they can start feeling responsible for positive outcomes, and responsible for their own successes in school and in life.
For your child to improve his academic performance is for him to believe that he can do it. Similarly, you must believe in your child by showing your full faith in him and total support for his efforts to improve.
Often the best way to encourage kids to persevere at difficult times is through their connections to people matter to them
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Join our Smart Classroom
Knowledge is key to unlock the potential in your child. We have taken the first step in unlocking every student’s potential by giving every student the opportunity to build knowledge by increasing teachability, accessibility and engagement for all our students attending our weekly tuition classes. You can also view our lesson progress and access past year school papers in our Smart Classroom
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Support by Smart Consultation
Children with learning challenges often need extra attention to overcome their most pressing learning issues. When the teacher provides individually prescribed instruction (IPI), it significantly helps many learners to understand and grasp educational concepts.
Smart consultation gives individual learning support and focuses on the individual learner’s needs. It helps consolidate learning, or extend academic performance, in individual areas, and/or consult and clear doubts to help fill the gaps in learning. This class is flexible and tailored to their needs.
Study coach focuses on the "process" of school, while tutoring helps students with "content".
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Lack of study skills become most apparent during these times, as there is a jump in workload and school expectations. You can have a student who is doing very well and then all of a sudden, they are showing signs of stress because school expectations have outpaced student readiness and skills.
Choose our StudySmart Workshop
StudySmart is a collaboration with The Learning Scientists to give your child a scientific proven method to maximize time and effort by setting up powerful approaches. Step by step, you will learn how to apply the best study strategies and receive support to create a system i.e. notes taking, scheduling, organization and time management and develop all other skills to the specific challenges s/he faces! Your child will learn more about him/herself over time after the academic coaching sessions. H/she will become better at independent thinking and adopt new ways to meet their goals.
What is a Study Coach?
As a parent, it is important to help your child by designing feasible and achievable targets in their learning by equipping them with study skills that are tailored to their personal needs and styles. Change can often seem like an impossible task, but with a study coach attached to the family, using the same tool CBT employed by practitioners, we hope to provide family with a clear framework to manage recurrences of negative learning behaviour and to develop strong coping strategies.
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Parents are the first line of defence, and we want you to be involved.
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What is a Family Coach?
A professional to help children overcome this helpless response pattern, first, we need to intervene at the perceptions (beliefs and attitudes) and motivation levels.
We are Family Program Comprising THREE 1-hr sessions exclusive to our families:
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getting to know your teen
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appreciating your parenting style
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applying effective strategies in parenting (in accordance to your teen’s personality);
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Communicate effectively with your teen and create positive connections
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Join Our Family Dialogues
Our experts may include well-qualified therapists (i.e. psychologists or counsellors) and study coaches to guide parents through the challenging and often unfamiliar landscape for raising kids.
Our program elements work together so that the families learn, plan and implement strategies to remove challenges and to improve mental wellbeing.
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Upon entry in our program, every student will receive an individualized assessment and recommendations report. This report provides an outline of their learning style, visual and auditory note taking skill levels, visual and auditory memory assessment and a recommended study curriculum
frequently asked questions
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What is the role of an study “coach” vs. a “tutor”?An study coach helps the child understand the process of learning across all subject areas where a tutor who will help them master content in a specific subject area.
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How will I know if this is working?Your child will be happier, less argumentative, and they will have a plan for their work. You will start to see more success in their work completion rate, work quality and effort. You will see them begin to study differently and their grades should start to improve.
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My child is not doing well. Is changing tuition able to help?To be fair, all centers in Singapore follows the MOE syllabus and the contents are covered. If your child is struggling, we have Smart Consultation to support your child with individualized attention and Study Coach to work with the learning progress. With more than 10 community partners dealing with different learning challenges, we are the only centre in Singapore to integrate counsellors, coaches and teachers together. Together with parents, we can unlock the potential of your child.
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How long should it take until I start to see some results?Each child is different – if your child is committed to the process, you should see the child incorporating elements of the process fairly quickly. Just like any other skill, the more you practice, the more success you will see.
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How successful is the program?We are confident in our programmes as we have helped many others with serious issues. With more strategic partners (counsellors, therapists and learning specialists) on board, we are confident to impact more families. We promise that we have the support to help you navigate challenges your child is facing by strengthening the child's executive function skills and when they learn to focus on effort and strategies, they will feel responsible for their own life. If the programmes fail it comes from the parents' willingness to trust our counsellors and sadly most families will be stuck in an endless cycle of pursuing academic excellence via just giving more tuition, which most does not yield the desirable results You must remember it takes a village to raise a child. It is not a taboo to visit counsellors to seek professional help for family and child. Accept the diagnostic results and seek the right help fast.
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How will I know when my child has “graduated” and can work independently?You will know that they are ready when they have shown the ability to work at the center or at home independently while fully incorporating their newly honed Executive Function competencies and achieving the academic success that they have hoped for.
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What will our Study Coach be building with your child?THE 8 EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS INHIBITION - The abillty to ignore distractions and resist temptations INITIATION - The ability to take action and get started SHIFTING - Having the mental flexibility to switch from one task or thought process to another. EMOTIONAL CONTROL - The ability to manage your feelings WORKING MEMORY - The ability to hold information PLANNING - The ability to set goals and apply strategies ORGANISATION - The ability to create and maintain a system. SELF-MONITORING - The ability to monitor and evaluate performance.
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Why parents must be involved?Parents play a critical role in providing a learning bridge between school and the home, while instilling in their children positive attitudes and values towards learning and life.
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Is family counselling compulsory?As parents we love our child, but if the child is underperforming due to family reasons, we have the right support to help the family. Behind every struggling learner there is a story to tell. We need you to be committed in order to see positive changes in the family
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Do you talk to the schools and/or other specialists?If parents sign a release of information, we will speak to schools, doctors and/or other specialists working with your student. If a call lasts longer than 15 minutes, we will bill the account on file our hourly coaching rate.
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What type of feedback / progress reports do I receive?We believe in tracking progress! Our goal is for students (and parents) to be able to celebrate areas of improvement and identify areas where students have yet to reach their goals.
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Do you have Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Psychoeducational testers, and/or other resources that you recommend?One of our objectives is to be a valuable community “citizen” and build relationships with many specialists. We can provide names of practitioners, but will not make recommendations as that is a decision that should be left to families. Once we better understand your child’s learning profile / needs, we can provide a variety of names to you. Additionally, if you have a resource that you think highly of, please pass on their name to us!
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What will the learning assessment tell us about our children?This is the most comprehensive test to evaluate your child's learning ability. 17 Study Skill Functions (Time management, memory, perceived stress test and 14 other functions) 8 Executive Function (Inhibition, Self-monitoring and 6 other functions) 12 Classroom Executive Function (Auditory, Visual, Inference, Saccadic fixation, Sustain attention and 8 other functions) The assessment also includes a test on the family emotional wellbeing, parenting style, learning style and optional detection of learning disabililty.