School can and should be an exciting, absorbing flow experience! Students will be shown how to structure their school work along these lines to:
Answers to commonly asked questions:
Q: How do you manage to keep students' interest for four hours?
A: Variety! For example, I use magic tricks to illustrate some points. The seminar uses group discussion, individual exercises, and graphic examples. Also, most of this material is so unusual that students are fascinated anyway.
Q: Doesn't an emphasis on memory skills take away from thinking skills?
A: Not at all. Students can't learn how to think unless they have something to think about. They need a database of facts from which to reason. If teachers can spend less time just getting the students to "learn the material," they can spend more time teaching analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of the material.
Interestingly, memory training using visual images was a cornerstone of the ancient Greek and Roman education. And this classical memory training continued to be taught through the Renaissance. Unfortunately, it got confused with the justly unpopular rote-memory method, and is seldom taught or used today.
Q: This seminar seems like it will appeal to the students who are already academically motivated. What about the other students?
A: The SuperStudent® Seminar is designed to help not only those students who are already doing well, but also those students who are struggling. It gives all students a boost. Visually-oriented students, especially, often cannot "connect" with a class that is extremely verbal and analytical. When students have a variety of study strategies to choose from, they are able to finally get the information to "click" for them, and to keep up with their classmates.
