NEWS: Successful Master Licensed Partner shares her experiences 01 Nov 09

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As you may well know, Positively MAD has been recruiting a number of highly creative, dynamic and passionate licensees who have been trained to deliver our two best-selling student coaching programs. We recently invited all licensees to share their success stories and experiences, and received this letter from Helen Turier who details her story as a Posmad Master Licensed Partner. In it she explains how she first trained her own children and the ripple effect that that had on getting her business started.

My story thusfar as a Positively MAD Master Licensed Partner

In July I presented Goal Mapping in a local middle school to children moving up to senior school after the summer. It was well received and the children really rose to the challenge and embraced the concept. I was just pleased that the kids got the concept and ran with it so enthusiastically. Also as it was a very mixed ability group we were rather pushed for time as some of the children needed more time for drawing.

The 6S Study Skills System

I tested this out initially on my 13yr old twins who were studying for common entrance exam in june this year.

For those not familiar with the private sector the common entrance exam is 4 days of exams taken by Yr 8 children in June each year to secure places at their chosen senior schools. They have 2 papers for each subject( maths, English, RE, History, Geography, French, Biology, Chemistry and Physics). The questions are very old fashioned and are very similar to old style o levels. Very much essay based, timed 45- 1 hour  each exam So a pretty tall order.

On the back of a discussion with the head of year I volunteered to deliver it to the school for free so they could see how effective it was.They chose the Year 6 students (age 10-11) because they wanted to integrate it in to the way the children will study in years 7 and 8.
I delivered it over 2 afternoons,  approx 3 hours each time plus 3 breaks of 10 minutes.
There were 30 kids in the class of very mixed ability , some have 2 sessions + of learning support a week due to dyslexia and some are very bright bunnies who are the scholars of tomorrow A* types. Feedback from the kids was brilliant, they loved the humour, the ease of learning and the encouragement to think out of the box. The staff said the kids were buzzing about it afterwards.

Despite the fact the children were so much younger than the target audience they embraced the key concepts and in many ways were probably more receptive to them than older children might be.

I then returned to the school this term to deliver a scaled down version to the main tutors. The aim is for the children to use the regular review process during the next 2 years as they prepare for common entrance.

Feedback from the teachers was great and they seemed to embrace the system, so more so than others, but overall it was extremely positive. They plan to get the children to do a daily review at the end of the day in prep time.

Watch this space and I'll let you know how they get on with it.