
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
132 episodes
Effective Use of Sources
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 the...
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Episode 132
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Plan EVERY Extended Response
Ep. 131Students 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...
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A Positive Mindset is Not Enough
Ep. 130→ 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 th...
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Episode 130
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Brutal Study Truth #3: Unique is Not Better
Ep. 129→ 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 th...
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Episode 129
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Brutal Study Truth #2: Markers Don't Care (and that's great news)
Ep. 128→ 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 th...
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Episode 128
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Brutal Study Truth #1:More is NOT More
Ep. 127→ 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 th...
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Episode 127
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The Number ONE Shortcut to Exam Success
Ep. 126→ 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 th...
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Episode 126
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'Effort Risk' (And how to minimise it)
Ep. 125Get 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...
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Episode 125
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Study Activity is Not The Same As Active Study
Ep. 124Click to 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 achi...
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Episode 124
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Don't Hire a Tutor Without Knowing This
Ep. 123Get 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...
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Episode 123
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Keys to Nailing a New Year Group
Ep. 122.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 the...
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Episode 122
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3 Subtle But Significant Demands of a New Year Group
Ep. 121___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 t...
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Episode 121
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The 80/20 Rule of Lost Marks
Ep. 120 - ****************Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediate...
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Episode 120
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5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About External Exams
Ep. 119 *****************Heads up! Register NOW for the LIVE Crack The Exam Code 2024 webinar!https://www.gradetransformation.com/code********...
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Episode 119
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What's the Point? (No, really. What is it?)
Ep. 118 -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 confid...
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Exams, Stress & Life Balance
Ep. 117 - Listen in on a conversation I had on the Happy Families podcast with Justin Coulson and his wife, Kylie a while ago where we talked about: • Study stress •...
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Turn Exams Into Your Teen's Greatest Strength
- Ep. 116 -Here's why I think exams should become your teen's GREATEST STRENGTH(and what I'm doing to help make that a reality!):1) Exams are the biggest source of stress and cause of anxiety in most teen's school life.- ...
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What NOT to Say to a Stressed Student
- Ep. 115Listen in on a conversation I had on the Mama Mia podcast a while ago where we talked about:how to tackle big tasks the key to studying smarter and the three hurdles facing procrastinators.&n...
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Episode 115
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Don't 'Write About' - 'Respond to'
Ep. 114A better way for your teen to approach and think about completing tasks or answering questions, so they achieve more of those high level criteria and do it in a focused, clear and succinct way.FEATURED ON THE SHOW:...
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Episode 114
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How to Handle it Next Time
Ep. 113Real life student case study: There was something subtly holding one student back from certainty and success in her Maths assignment. Listen to discover how we figured out what she’ll do differently next time (in not just Mat...
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Episode 113
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Plan For it NOT Going to Plan
Ep. 112I love a good plan.But, when you think about it, it's actually pretty likely that a practical plan of action won't totally go to plan, every step of the way.Unexpected things will come up.So, what happens if we EXPECT thi...
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Episode 112
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Smart Decisions Under Time Pressure
Ep. 111It's when we're under time pressure that we're most likely to fall back into old habits.But not this student!In this episode I share a real life skilled and strategic student case study where they INTENTIONALLY left o...
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Episode 111
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Universal Skills
Ep. 110We dive into how and why the skills, techniques and strategies that I talk about here every week, and train students in, are universal when it comes to your teen’s subjects, tasks and year groups. This means they can...
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Episode 110
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