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Course Overview
By the end of this training, your students will walk into their exams feeling confident that they know exactly how to pass and achieve success. You will be able to identify and address their study skills challenges and help them develop a positive mindset for ongoing academic achievement. You’ll gain the skills to assist your students in preparing for exams, reducing exam anxiety, and using proven strategies for effective studying, time management, and information retention. Both neurodivergent and neurotypical students will benefit from this multi-sensory, evidence-based approach developed by world-leading expert Dr. Susie Nyman. Implementing these strategies will boost the academic results of your class and institution, and you’ll earn a professional accreditation certificate in teaching study skills, enhancing your qualifications and career prospects.
- Understand the most effective ways to study
- Learn the step by step process for helping students achieve better outcomes
- Learn how to positively change mindset around school assessment
- Discover how to prepare for tests and exams in the most effective way
- Learn how to retain subject knowledge to gain better results.
- Understand the benefits of effective time management skills
- Get the latest evidence based research for exam success
- Realise the impact of effective learning for better results
- Learn how to support students’ study efforts with technology
- Learn how to support student’s who struggle with organisational skills
- Learn how to support students’ who experience learning anxiety
- See effective multisensory teaching techniques to aid learning and recall.
- Understand the relationship between effective teaching and student progress
- Use the correct step-by-step approach to teaching study skills
- Appreciate the critical support structures that need to be implemented
- Support students with Specific Learning Difficulties / Neurodiversity
- Provide your students with skills to improve academic self-esteem
- Positively impact students levels of school success and life outcomes
- 6 x 20min (approx) online, on demand engaging videos
- Multiple teaching and learning examples to improve exam results
- Numerous effective multisensory learning strategies
- Examples of multisensory teaching across 5 faculties
- Two Resilience and Mental Toughness questionnaires
- A Success Behaviours Checklist
- Numerous downloadable resources
- Links to further support
- Mental Toughness Quiz
- Resilience Checklist
- Success in Exams Student Checklist
- Success Behaviours Checklist
- Command Word Glossary
- Fixed vs Growth Mindset
- Exam Timetable
- Know Your Exam Command Verbs
- 17 Before During & After Class Strategies To Ensure Exam Success
- How To Beat the Forgetting Curve
- Unlock 16 A+: Proven Strategies From Top Students
- The Student Success Iceberg – 19 Factors That Can Impact Student Success
Success Behaviours
This video covers the habits of successful students – what these students do before, during and after lessons, along with detailed useful examples and loads of practical strategies to ensure academic success.
Preparing for the Exam
Discover the details for the planning process before exams and get highly effective strategies to beat the ‘forgetting curve’, enabling students to retain knowledge and walk into any exam with confidence.
How to Pass Exams
This 3-part video covers effective exam strategy including, observing, and narrating, decoding exam questions and understanding command verbs. You will also get access to the exam revision planner and exam resources.
Fixed and Growth Mindset
You will learn the difference between Fixed Mindset and Growth Mindset by identifying the behaviours associated with both. In addition, the four pillars of Mental Toughness are discussed, whilst considering individual challenges, and how to move students from the ‘Critic’ to the ‘Champion’ learner.
Multisensory Teaching Techniques
Learn a huge number of multisensory techniques that can be applied to any subject to aid learning through the engagement of the 7 senses. Hundreds of original and useful ways of studying are demonstrated.
VESPA – The Scaffold for Success
Students will see how having a clear vision of their goals and aspirations, with sustained effort, using effective systems along with a system of dedicated practice can improve their academic results. Students with and without these characteristics will be revealed and a student checklist provided.
Dr Susie Nyman is passionate about discovering how children learn and supporting them in ways which enable them to succeed. She was appointed as a Biology teacher at The Sixth Form College Farnborough in 1995, and subsequently as Curriculum Manager for Health and Social Care where she has worked ever since.
Susie strives to raise students’ achievements and support them in ways which enables them to succeed. She works with her students deploying a range of innovative and Multi-sensory teaching techniques to assist their learning.
This course will contribute 4 hours of Professional Development (PD).
The 5 hours of PD can be logged as self-identified, accredited, professional development.
