Ep. 141

→ Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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Research can be a HUGE time sap for students.

Whether it's researching information for an investigation, sources for an inquiry, or finding data for a report, finding relevant and high quality information, and then sifting and sorting through it all can lead to:

- hours spent down rabbit holes

- long evenings spend swamped and overwhelmed by info

- frustration trying to find studies that may not even exist.

Listen in to discover three steps that will help your teen find better quality information, faster, and have them actually understand what they find!

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  - and actually understand what you find.
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Ep. 139

→ Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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The third thing that totally changed how I see study, exams and assessment:

- My experience as a NAPLAN Writing Test marker (and non-English specialist teacher).

Listen in to discover:

• What the marker training taught me about the task being set vs. the skills being tested.
• What's actually important in creative and open tasks (hint: it's NOT coming up with an interesting or unique idea!)
• Why your teen shouldn't 'hedge their bets' when they're unsure about something - with mark scheme proof!
• The overlap between skills that creates a double-whammy impact (positive or negative).
• And much more!

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Ep. 138

→ Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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Discover the unexpected reaction of one student when I shared the insights and training in exam technique, mark schemes and rubric criteria, with one particular class.

This was the moment I realised hardworking students really do want the stuff that is boring yet useful, dry yet impactful, tough to decipher yet critical to success in assessments.

They just don’t ask for it, because they don’t realise they’re missing it.

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