Is Motivation talks/camp effective?
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My parents brought me recently to the Adam Khoo talk and I was quite impress with the right brain technique they use to "memorise". I wonder if it is so impressive as claim, why MOE did not train school teachers and we student will have an easier time. Imagine spending a week in their camp and being super achiever! Why need to memorise like crazy.
However my parents feel it might not work and further more it is pretty expensive.
To those who have been to the camp, care to share a little about this technique? -
MMM:
I sent my kids to Adam Khoo's prog too. They were only motivated for that moment. Nothing change or improve. I would say waste of money for us.When I did my earlier posts on this topic, my nephew who went to Adam Khoo was only P5. But he is Sec 1 now. Apparently, the camp did nothing for him. He scraps through PSLE and made it to PSLE express stream. Now in Sec 1 in a hardly known school, he is still obsess with playing on the computers and it appeared that he is fond of using foul language as well, etc...
Definitely not a motivated individual. -
Actually it depends on the situation. My son did so badly in his exams in p5, （59%) and was very demotivated. Sent him for Adam khoo. Applies his principle eg. No such thing as failures but learning experiences and past success doesn’t determine future etc. and he delivers positive results academically, in competitive sports and managed to get 2A* and 2A in psle. And that’s because he himself realized where he wants to go and knows that he has to keep working towards it. I told my ds we will send his for a booster jab in 3 yrs time!
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One way for students to get motivated is to have teachers connect their subjects to the real world and make the learning interesting. This is best done in the context of the particular subject. So this means having teachers who really understand the particular subject matter, have real world experience, and enjoy it themselves. That genuine interest and enthusiasm will rub off on the students.
Also, another thing that is a big motivator is a student who develops the confidence that they can think and figure things out themselves, rather than being told what to memorize.
As for my own science education, I was never turned on much by motivational speakers, because I gained my motivation through the two channels I mentioned above. -
I came across this ad from http://www.Learning Mastery.com which seems to ask exactly the questions that I am concerned with - that my child from Sec 2 is not motivated / interested much in studying, extremely distracted by social media and is using the phone most of the time. Has anyone attended this before and is it really helpful and effective in changing the attitude of the child to learning?
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South African:
Actually it depends on the situation. My son did so badly in his exams in p5, （59%) and was very demotivated. Sent him for Adam khoo. Applies his principle eg. No such thing as failures but learning experiences and past success doesn't determine future etc. and he delivers positive results academically, in competitive sports and managed to get 2A* and 2A in psle. And that's because he himself realized where he wants to go and knows that he has to keep working towards it. I told my ds we will send his for a booster jab in 3 yrs time!
Very Similar experience with My DD. She is now in JC2, a very confident person... But journey was not smooth.
She was in 3rd best class after P4 Streaming.. In june of P4, we enrolled her in Mindchamps \"Straitway to success \" class . We were not looking for any such course , but curious , if such class can make difference. 6 month of Sunday class transformed her... I guess most effective message was \"Resonsible to self/Family\". I guess such message would awake Girl child more than Boys.
She was in 2 nd best class in P5 & P6 .. did well at PSLE to go to One of the better one \"girls only' school fro secondary school
When she went for DSA got JC, Teacher praised, Steady Progress made over Sec1 to Sec4, rejecting application. Advicing to apply for thro' JAE. Scored well at Secondary exams with 8 subjects keeping A maths & physics, Chem.
It works to awakes child , especially , if parents has haven't put much empasis on doing well at Exams -
No difference after MindEdge
\"Beyond Academic Excellence Course\" cost $4K but I noticed there was no difference in attitude towards learning after my child completed the course. There was no survey carried out at the end to gather feedback from parents on how effective the course was for the child. The promised free seminar relating to differences of learning between gender was not offered. Disappointing and below my expectation.
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son also has one of this in march…$45 after all the subsidy and partial payment from edusave. 3 days.
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Hi,
May I know any motivational course/camps for psle kid in March or June but not Adam Khoo's because my friend is looking for for her kid but AK is too expensive.
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I sat through a session before… It’s very emotional and the kids cry and say they want to change. We all know life routine will eventually take over again… These one time things don’t help much in my opinion. Needs to have follow-up…
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