Jump Start to Deliberate Practice
Anders Ericsson identified these 5 components of “deliberate practice.” Use this checklist to evaluate your learning or training regimen – then improve it by adding SPICE! Read More
The Journey to Student as “Self-Teacher”
Use this article to guide a constructive and interesting conversation with a different point of view about learning. Introduce the very powerful mindset that your child can become a self-learner, someone who knows how to teach themself. This can help motivate the desire to become more skillful at learning. Read More
The 4D Coaching Model
Bring out the powerful parent coach in you with this four-step process! This summarizes the steps of the 4D parent coaching model as presented in the online Pa 10 course. Use this as a step-by-step to guide for improving the learning strategies used by your child. Start with the Discover step and advance to the next levels only when you have accomplished the step results. Read More
The Power of “Tiny Gains”
Because these ideas have so much potential to improve learning, you will want to consider how you will implement your change strategy. Consider this question – what is the best way to make these amazing improvements? Read More
A fun Learning Exercise: “The Amazing Brain”
One of the major objections that parents face is the self-limiting beliefs your child can hold about their own capabilities to learn hard things. If you have heard statements like, “I’m not smart enough to learn math,” or “This subject is too hard!” or “I wish I was smart like so and so,” then you should recognize you need some supporting information to counter these points of view. Use these...Read More
What the Dog and the Frisbee Teach Us About Parent Coaching
How can you convince the child who believes she is a good student to work harder to improve and become an even better expert learner? It’s a motivational problem – we do know the hardest person to change is one who thinks they are already good at something. Whether they really are or not doesn’t matter here, you are dealing with the same problem of resistance to change. When...Read More
College Readiness – Are You Overlooking These Things?
How do you know if your child is really college ready? The science of learning provides us with useful insight into a key skill you may be missing. Read More
Checklist on How to Learn Hard Things
Learning hard things requires a disciplined approach that will keep you in “focused mode.” We’ve identified seven helpful components–use this as a worksheet to assess what you are doing or not doing now, and then identifying what you need to change to be more successful. Checklist Growth MindsetAdapt what Dr. Carol Dweck has called a “Growth Mindset” to tackle hard things. This...Read More