Parents of Hardworking Teens
Ever wish you knew how to help your hardworking teen get the results they really want and that match their effort and true potential? --- That’s exactly what you get with Katie Jones, award-winning high school teacher and international study coach, on the Parents of Hardworking Teens podcast. --- Katie’s specialty is making education and assessment clear and simple for both students and their parents, in a way that gets your teen top results, with less stress. --- Whether your teen is struggling to get the results they’re striving for, or is getting great grades but doing it with way too much struggle and strain, Katie will give you the insider info, proven tips and strategies to ensure your teen achieves their best possible success - and have you BOTH enjoy the journey along the way.
Episodes
Ep. 150
→ 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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I spend a LOT of time hammering students about making a plan before they start writing any kind of extended response, report analysis, essay, or discussion piece.
There are a lot of instincts we have to override in order to spend t...
Ep. 149
→ 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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What does baking have to do with your teen's study?
These words, are what:
“I’m calm. I’m in the zone. I know how to do this.”
How can we make those the words in your teen's mind when they're queuing up outside the exam...
Ep. 148
→ 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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I often have parents and students feed back to me that the skills they pick up from my trainings and programs are also super-helpful in uni, but not having teaching experience at that level, I tend to avoid getting too much into a...
Ep. 147
→ 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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Most students don’t lose marks because they lack knowledge.
They lose marks because they don’t show enough depth.
They’re told to “add more detail”…
So they write more. Repeat more. Ramble more.
And still miss the top marks.
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- Ep. 146
→ 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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If your teen thinks they need more motivation before they can get stuck into a task, listen in.
There are two things that will create and maintain momentum in your teen's study, WAY better than motivation ever can - whether t...
Ep. 145 -
→ 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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Where uncertainty lurks and hides, gently sabotaging your teens confidence and results: How to find it and how to turn it into clarity and confidence.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- The often hidden areas where ...
Ep. 144 -
→ 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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This recent Science assignment task proves why students should always START out on any assignment task with the thing they usually check LAST, if they want to:
- Avoid wasting time and effort on things that won't earn them...
Ep. 143
→ 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 tips, insights and examples that may have flown under your radar this year, but I think you and your teen really, REALLY need to know.
Listen in to discover:
- How to figure out what's actually important in creative and ex...
Ep. 142
→ 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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I've just marked over 400 pages of student responses this year for the Y12 ATAR external exams.
Listen in for my top 5 takeaways from that experience that I want all students and their parents to know and learn from - so they d...
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 ...
Ep. 140
→ 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 focus of an assignment or project is not always what it first appears to be.
Take this example:
> Design a Photo Story about a particular topic related to food security.
It would make sense for a student to put a lot of t...
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 ...
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 wa...
Ep. 137
→ 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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These are the 3 moments that started and then led me deep into the world of exams, exam marking, assessment and the discovery that subject knowledge alone isn't the key to academic success.
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Ep. 136
→ 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 critical thing your teen needs to know about any text they’re studying or analysing in English.
Whether it’s for an analytical essay on a novel or they’re preparing for an unseen text analysis, this episode is all abou...
Ep. 135
→ 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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One of the biggest hurdles, unintentional time wasters, and causes of lost marks is: lack of clarity on a task, essay question or assignment.
In this episode I share specific ways I check on students' clarity on various aspects...
Ep. 134
→ 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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If your teen's losing marks in exams due to small slips or silly mistakes under time pressure, then listen in to a real student story where we needed to dig deeper to identify the exact issues stopping them from getting the ma...
Ep. 133
→ 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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There are three groups of skills that generate the two outcomes almost all students and their parents want.
Discover what they are, why they create a double-whammy outcome and how your teen can master them!
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...Ep. 132
→ 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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What to do with sources when they’re provided in an exam, inquiry report or for an extended response.
Discover the trap that many students fall into and what they need to do instead.
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Ep. 131
Students really dislike the planning stage of essays and extended responses.
I get it.
It feels like an extra chunk of work, when they really just want to get going with the writing.
But that would be a mistake.
Here are 3 reasons why your teen should plan EVERY extended response - whether it’s a 10 mark exam question, 2000 word essay or research inquiry or report style assignment...
so they create:
- a higher qu...
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