Parents as Learning Coaches (Run 1 – 7 & 8 Mar 2019)

(“Coaching is 90% attitude and 10% technique.”)

Do you find your children’s learning attention span short? Are their thoughts constantly wandering off? This two-session workshop aims to help parents identify your children’s strengths, types of intelligences and learning styles to maximise learning. Parents will learn and acquire the necessary skills that provide a more in-depth help in growing their children’s love for learning.

Using experiential activities, small group discussions, demonstrations, case studies and personal reflection, parents will also explore creating a conducive home environment for learning and working in partnership with the school and the community.

Key Areas Covered:

Parents will learn

• To understand multiple intelligences
• What is difficult for their children in learning
• Possible reasons for their children’s difficulties
• How children cope when faced with difficulties in their learning
• What are the needs of their children
• How to be realistic about their expectations of their children
• To understand their own needs
• How to render emotional support
• Ways that they can manage their own emotions like anxiety and frustrations
• Identifying their children’s strengths; types of intelligence; learning styles; and how they can use these to maximise learning
• How to create a conducive home environment for learning
• How to work in partnership with schools and community resources
• How they can transfer a joy for learning in their children

Duration:

2 sessions of 4 hours each

Fee:

$42.80 per pax

$74.90 per couple

Target Audience:

Parents of children & teens