Self-Regulated Learning – Being Aware of How You Learn Best

Self-Regulation Self-regulation means the ability to ‘regulate yourself’; to appropriately monitor your thoughts, control your reactions and respond appropriately to your environment. Ideally, your end goal [...]

2023-04-11T16:27:13+01:00April 26th, 2021|Categories: Focus on Potential, Schools, Skills Builder|Tags: |

Education – Rethinking the Assessment System by Joy Morgan

Assessment is due a rethink. Our young people deserve an assessment system that goes way beyond focusing solely on academic achievement with a constant eye on [...]

2023-04-11T16:27:37+01:00April 26th, 2021|Categories: Focus on Potential, Schools, Skills Builder|Tags: , |

Critical Thinking Skills – a Detective Flair, from Arts to Sciences

How to Cultivate Good Judgement in Academic Work and Daily Life ‘Critical thinking’ means to ‘positively critique’; to successfully judge between fact and opinion, draw reasonable [...]

Life in the Age of Lockdown Photography Competition – The Winners!

Thank you to everyone who entered our "Life in the Age of Lockdown" Photography Competition. We had a fantastic response. We asked you to send us [...]

2023-04-11T16:36:43+01:00February 21st, 2021|Categories: Competition, Focus on Potential, Skills Builder|

Keeping the Challenge High During Remote Learning by Joy Morgan

Stretching high potential learners is a major challenge for teachers, alongside getting to grips with the technology and skills needed for remote learning which, like everything [...]

Fabulous Fascination Folders to Challenge Learners

Fascination Folders, a place where students can access more information and challenging activities about a topic, can be used in the classroom or electronically during remote [...]

Learning about Learning with an Elephant

Non-confrontational lessons and insights from Kaavan the rescue elephant Kaavan’s mental journey is a marvellous and non-intimidating parallel that we can use to teach young people [...]

2024-04-10T14:06:47+01:00December 15th, 2020|Categories: Focus on Potential, Skills Builder, Wellbeing|Tags: , , |

Clearly Able, Yet Complicated? – Might Your Child Have ‘DME’?

‘Unusual’ in both their potential and in their obstacles? Here is a simple guide to Dual or Multiple Exceptionality (DME). Is your child (or student) clearly [...]

5 Common Crises of Confidence

 With a high potential learner, building confidence sometimes means taking one uneasy step at a time. Fortunately, with the right support it won’t be ‘a bridge [...]

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