VOLUNTEERS AS LEARNING COACHES

 “Coaching is 90% attitude and 10% technique.”      – unknown author

 Synopsis:

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:

• Understanding Multiple Intelligences
• What is difficult for children in their learning
• Possible reasons for their difficulty
• How children cope when faced with difficulties in their learning
• Understanding the needs of the children
• Expectations of parents and children and how to be realistic
• Understanding parents’ own needs

Parents will take home strategies on:

• how to render emotional support
• ways parents can manage one’s emotions like anxiety
  and frustrations
• identifying the children’s strengths; types of intelligences;
  learning styles; and how parents can use these to maximise
  learning
• creating a conducive home environment for learning
• working in partnership with school and community
  resources
• how parents can transfer a joy for learning in their
  children

Duration:

1 session of 4hr

Target audience:

Staff / volunteers