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Our Programs Deliver Results
How will we upgrade your mind?
Do you often feel overloaded with all the information you are expected to retain?
In the modern environment, we are constantly being asked to perform more efficiently.
Competition and the notion of continuous improvement are central to our society.
We are always upgrading our computer systems. When was the last time you upgraded
your mind?
Just imagine:
- Instantly and significantly upgrading your active recall.
- Trusting in your abilities implicitly, giving you that competitive
and creative edge.
- Cutting research and study time in half.
- Increasing your ability to summarise and memorise key information.
- Effortlessly accessing all your exam and research information.
- Becoming a more confident and productive individual
These goals and more are what MindChamps was created to achieve.
The 4 ‘A’s of Active Learning™
MindChamps’ New Brain Software® is
built on a premise – supported by extensive neurological and psychological
research – that effective learning is ‘active learning’,
not passive. This means that students must master strategies promoting
the 4 ‘A’s:
- Active Understanding
- Active Storage
- Active Recall
- Application (including the skills of Analysis, Evaluation,
Synthesis and Expression).
Active Understanding translates ‘information’ into ‘knowledge’.
Without understanding, information cannot be effectively processed, recalled
or applied to new challenges. Using MindChamps’ unique Optimal Flow
Method™, our programs train students the techniques for a whole-brain
approach to learning which actually promotes active understanding.
Active Storage is the name given to the strategies and
techniques which advanced learners use to understand and control the information
which they will need in the future. It is a result of using techniques
which make optimal use of the powers of the human subconscious. This is
only possible if you understand the way the brain ‘lays down’ its
long-term memories and MindChamps’ years of meticulous research have
resulted in a range of brain-friendly strategies for the active storage
of all manner of information.
Active Recall strategies are only possible when information
and understandings have been ‘stored’ actively and effectively.
MindChamps’ students learn these strategies in tandem with the Active
Storage strategies, so that learning, storage and recall are a seamless
process. They are called ‘active’ techniques, because they
do not rely on the usual ‘passive’ processes of rote- and drill-learning.
They put the student in the ‘driver’s seat’ of the learning
process.
Application – the 4th ‘A’ – the
final key element of the active learning process. Knowledge is of little
use without the skills and techniques for applying it to a range of situations
which are distinct from the one in which the knowledge was acquired in
the first place.
There are four phases to the Application process:
- Analysis
- Evaluation
- Synthesis
- Expression
Every situation – in school or in life – presents
demands and sets challenges. The active learner, equipped with the required
knowledge, first analyses the problem, determines the knowledge/skills
which may be required to solve it, evaluates both the potential methods
and the knowledge, synthesises an approach or a method, then expresses
the solution in an appropriate form. In school, this might be an essay,
a report, a review, a presentation etc. In the world beyond school, it
may take the form of an action. Whatever the case, the solution is ‘expressed’ by
taking some kind of action, and skills required to create a range of means
for expression are the mark of a well-prepared and successful ‘active
learner’.
MindChamps students at all stages are well-prepared in the 4 ‘A’s – which
is why we pride ourselves on the preparedness of our graduates to face
any challenge with confidence and skill.
Our Programs:
Sparks of
a Champion®
(Primary
1 & 2)
Research has shown that the way a child is taught to think and learn
before the age of ten will significantly influence all future brain development.
Sparks of a Champion® (SC) addresses this by developing effective
learning and thinking strategies in Early Primary level students.
Springboard
2 Success®
(Primary 3 & 4)
Springboard 2 Success (S2S) is designed to give students the skills
and techniques which will change forever the way they learn. It builds
the ‘Champion Mindset’ – the springboard to launch an
impressive school career.
- The 4 'A's of Active LearningT
(Active Understanding, Active Storage, Active Recall & Application)
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Stairway
2 Championship®
(Primary 5 & 6)
Stairway 2 Championship (S2C) is a program that recognises the Upper
Primary Years as key years in the development of your child’s future
potential. It is built around 3 key elements:
- Personal Empowerment (through the Young Champions® program)
- The 4 ‘A’s of Active Learning™ (Active Understanding,
Active Storage, Active Recall & Application)
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Success
4 Life®
(Secondary to Tertiary level)
Success 4 Life (S4L) is the program for students engaged in Secondary,
Junior College and Tertiary studies. Like Stairway 2 Championship, it
is built upon a platform of:
- Personal Empowerment (incorporating MindChamps' Empower UT program)
- The 4 'A's of Active LearningT (Active Understanding, Active Storage, Active Recall & Application)
- Communication and Interpersonal Skills
PSLE Success™
The PSLE Success program modules have been designed using MindChamps’ Optimal
Flow Method™ to give students in their PSLE year (and the year
prior to that) the skills and the confidence to cope with the PSLE subjects
of English, Maths, Science & Chinese.
Empower
U™
A component of the Success 4 Life program, the 2½ day Empower
U™ is acclaimed as the best program of its kind in Australia and
Asia. It provides an exciting mix of visuals, physical activities and
cutting-edge information which has touched thousands of young lives,
helping them to achieve phenomenal results. Education experts hail it
as ‘the must-experience training for all future champions’.
Young
Champions®
A component of the Stairway 2 Championship program, Young Champions® is
the ‘younger sibling’ of Empower U. The 2 ½ day workshop
is designed for youths embarking on their teenage years to help them
appraise themselves, remove any obstacles that hinder their growth, and
chart their future goals and aspirations.
Confident
Communicator®
A component of Success 4 Life, this intensive 5-day workshop gives
students the skills and mindset to relate to others, enhance their EQ
and lead happy and successful lives. The program also features a simulation
of the English Oral Exams so that your child will be fully equipped and
prepared for it.
Oral Preparation™
A component of Springboard 2 Success, Stairway 2 Championship and PSLE
Success, the Oral Preparation™ program – 9 hrs for the former
(English) and 12 hrs for the latter (English/Chinese) – gives students
the skills and mindset to relate to others, enhance their EQ and lead
happy and successful lives. In addition, the program features a simulation
of the English Oral Exams so that your child will be fully equipped and
prepared for the PSLE.
Parenting
Workshop
At MindChamps, we believe in partnering with parents to help create
a better home-learning environment. As leaders of the home nation, it
is imperative that both parents participate in the parenting workshops
to understand the full range of MindChamps’ learning and mind development
techniques and to reinforce them in the home. Depending on the program
your child is enrolled in, the workshops available are Parenting Strategies
Workshop, Sparks of a Champion Parenting Workshop, Exam Strategies Parenting
Workshop and Champion Parenting Workshop.
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