Parent Webinars
Mix and match our webinars-on-demand for parents and carers and create the perfect programme to help you support your child with high learning potential.
What Are Potential Plus UK Parenting Webinars?
Parenting a child with high learning potential (also known as high potential learners, high ability, more able, gifted and talented) can be both rewarding and challenging. Our webinars cover many of the identified areas where support could be needed.
Our webinars are created from:
- best research evidence
- Potential Plus UK’s expertise
They include:
- a short webinar module on how to support your child on a topic
- downloadable resources
Webinars
Choosing the Right School
Price: £30 (incl. VAT)
Expected time to complete: 90 minutes
This course is designed for parents and carers who want to find out more about how to choose the right school for their child with high learning potential. This is often referred to as ‘more able’ or ‘gifted and talented’ in schools.
It covers primary, secondary and sixth form, offering something for every stage of your child’s journey through education and explains what you need to know about schools to help make a sound decision based on your child’s particular needs and interests.
Whether you are new to the world of high learning potential or an experienced member of our community, this course has something valuable to offer you.
Course Content:
- Getting Started – Useful information to explore before a school visit
- Visiting the School – How to get the most from Open Days and visits
- Looking at Each Phase – Information on Primary, Secondary and Sixth Forms, including school comparison measures
- Useful Questions for Teachers – Suggestions to ask teachers and school leaders
- Useful Questions for Learners – Suggestions to ask other children at the school
- Take-Away: Decision-making tool
- Course Quiz – To recap your learning
- Final Thoughts – Ideas to take away from this course
- References and More Information
- Other Courses that Might Help You
Parenting a High Potential Learner:
1. Getting Started
Price: £15 (incl. VAT)
Expected time to complete: 60 minutes
‘Getting Started’ is the first course in a 4-course introductory programme on parenting a high potential learner. It is designed for parents and carers of children and young people of all ages with high learning potential (often referred to as ‘more able’, or ‘gifted and talented’). It aims to help you to start your ‘high learning potential’ journey.
Course Content:
- Terminology in use in schools
- Individual development of your child – Asynchronous development
- Common characteristics
- Take-Away: activities to do with your child
- Reflective journals – to help you reflect on what you have discovered
Parenting a High Potential Learner:
2. Understanding Your Child’s Profile
Price: £24 (incl. VAT)
Expected time to complete: 90 minutes
‘Understanding Your Child’s Profile’ is the second course in a 4-course introductory programme on parenting a high potential learner. It is designed for parents and carers of children and young people of all ages with high learning potential (often referred to as ‘more able’, or ‘gifted and talented’). It aims to help you to start your ‘high learning potential’ journey.
Course Content:
- A model of high learning potential
- Academic and emotional profiles
- Dabrowski’s overexcitabilities
- Desirable dispositions
- Take-Away: Values to nurture
- Reflective journals – to help you reflect on what you have discovered
Parenting a High Potential Learner:
3. Avoiding Perfectionism, Building Resilience
Price: £30 (incl. VAT)
Expected time to complete: 90 minutes
‘Avoiding Perfectionism, Building Resilience’ is the third course in a 4-course introductory programme on parenting a high potential learner. It is designed for parents and carers of children and young people of all ages with high learning potential (often referred to as ‘more able’, or ‘gifted and talented’). It aims to help you to start your ‘high learning potential’ journey.
Course Content:
- The research – Growth vs Fixed Mindsets
- What parents can do to avoid perfectionism
- Nurturing a resilient child
- The conditions for success
- Take-Away: strategies to model
- Reflective journals – to help you reflect on what you have discovered
Parenting a High Potential Learner:
4. Advocating for your Child
Price: £30 (incl. VAT)
Expected time to complete: 120 minutes
‘Advocating for your Child’ is the final course in a 4-course introductory programme on parenting a high potential learner. It is designed for parents and carers of children and young people of all ages with high learning potential (often referred to as ‘more able’, or ‘gifted and talented’). It aims to help you to start your ‘high learning potential’ journey.
Course Content:
- Schools today
- Talking to your child about learning
- Determining the best course of action
- A solution-focused approach to negotiating the best outcome for your child
- Next steps and last resorts
- Take-Away: tricky conversations
- Reflective journals – to help you reflect on what you have discovered
Raising a Happy Child: Building Friendships
Price: £12 (incl. VAT)
Expected time to complete: 45 minutes
‘Building Friendships’ is the first course in a 4-course programme on raising a happy child. It is designed for parents and carers of children and young people of all ages with high learning potential (often referred to as ‘more able’, or ‘gifted and talented’). It aims to help you to support your ‘high learning potential child to thrive.
Course Content:
- Developing friendships
- Common friendship problems
- Tips for parents
- Reflective quiz– to help you reflect on what you have discovered
Revision Skills for Parents
Price: £30 (incl. VAT)
Expected time to complete: 90 minutes
This course is designed for the parents and carers of young people who are preparing for GCSE and A Level exams. It has been designed with high potential learners in mind, but the strategies are likely to be useful for many young people. It would also be suitable for the young people themselves to watch.
This course will support your child in their preparation for exams, helping to ensure that they enter the exam hall feeling well-prepared, calm and confident. It will cover some common problems and suggest how to overcome these, consider the research to discover which techniques have the biggest impact, and then explain how to use a range of revision strategies.
High potential learners (frequently described as ‘more able’ or ‘gifted and talented’ students in schools) often need to revise differently to their peers, so the course looks at where to focus time and includes tips for students and for parents.
Course Content:
- Getting started – some common problems
- The research – what it says works well and what doesn’t
- Strategies to trial
- Less time yet more impact
- Top tips for students
- Top tips for parents
- Take-away: checklist
- Final thoughts
- References and More Information
Purchasing Your Webinar
We are working in partnership with the Nucleus Learning platform to deliver these courses.
- Select the course name from the list below
- Follow the instructions to login or register with Nucleus Learning to purchase your webinar
- Access time for each short online course is 12 months from date of purchase
Please note: in purchasing a webinar, you are registering your information with the Nucleus Learning platform.
The price you will see as you start your purchase excludes VAT. VAT will be added at the checkout stage.