One in four students in certain parts of the country have NO qualifications.
More than half a million other 16 to 24 year-olds have only one GCSE or the equivalent.
So, what is the problem and what is the solution?
Well, for me… it’s simple.
The problem?
Well, the reason why students don’t get exam grades of any sort is because it’s not ‘important’ to them!!
It might be important to teachers and other people, but students only do stuff they do want to do, not stuff they don’t want to do…!!
- If students cannot see WHY they’re doing something, and other things in their life take priority (like socialising, Xbox and doing nothing!) then they’ll do that instead. Anything else requires too much willpower.
- YOU ALL KNOW that students only do things WHEN they become important. Even ‘mature’ students come back to school with a reinvigorated mind – NOT a new brain!! They’re not cleverer; they just ‘want it more’!!
- The time when we ALL achieve most in our lives is when we want to – NOT when we don’t…it’s the reason why I have a career and am making life changing and exam improving results for schools and their students.
So, what is the solution?
- Well, at some point, the student needs to feel a ‘shift’ in their life that gets them to want to do it more. If they decide they want to do things then they will: if they don’t, they won’t.
- The engagement skills I deliver to teachers definitely help (because they’ve told me so) but at some point there has to be a ’shock’ in the life of the students to make them see something different.
- The biggest mistakes and biggest ‘lifeshocks’ in my life have been the single biggest driver of everything in my existence.
- If you don’t get under anyone’s skin then nothing happens. My job is to get under the ’skin’ of the students and that’s what I do. My job is to give them that ‘shock’. It’s the reason why we’re SOLD OUT again and have nearly 3,000 students subscribing to the Facebook page.
If you want to find out how…. check out www.thebigpicture.eu.com
