Creating “A” Students
How Teachers Can Help Students Be Successful
The Creating A Student’s (CAS) Blueprint was created to be a powerful resource of skills for student success. Beyond "classroom management" it's about classroom optimisation. It aims to help your students uncover lifelong skills that will not only help them get A’s, but adopt the behaviour and mindset for lifelong success. We believe that through mindset, strategy, and growth, any student can become an A grade student.
A different approach for teachers and tutors in Australia
The CAS blueprint has been designed by tutors, teachers, child psychologists and other professionals, and is a result of years of research and experience of what strategies actually work. When implemented during school programs, The Creating A Students program is designed to use interactive techniques to ensure students understand exactly how to become a successful student in school.
How we partner with schools to Create A Students
Our Creating A Students handbooks and teacher resources are the foundation of our approach to classroom management and optimisation. When we partner with your school (learn more about our current school partnerships and options for selected school tutoring programs). When you choose to partner with us for state, private, selective or specialist school, we create a framework around your school. It may include:
- Motivational seminar with our founder, former elite athlete Hayden McEvoy
- Help for teachers with parent communications, student study strategies, classroom management and individual student support.
- Assistance managing single students, be the student a potential high performer, or a student struggling with the curriculum
- The option for on-campus or at home private tutoring for students
- Assistance in achieving your school's goals under the ATAR system
Teaching Success Tips for School Students
The CAS contains a set of nine modules that targets a specific facet of what creates an A Student, and more importantly an A-standard human being. The nine modules include content on growth mindset, support networks, goal setting, time management, stress management, exam and study strategy and other essential components of success.
The nine modules are delivered in the school programs over a period of about two years. At the beginning of the prep period, students will spend 15-20 minutes doing activities that teach the content of a specific module. Every week, students will work through new content and get the same techniques and benefits as reading the CAS manual, but taught in a different way. This interactive format of the school program CAS is more applicable to groups of students.
For example, when teaching goal setting strategies for students, one activity that may be used is ping pong basketball. We first see how many ping pong balls the students can get in the basket, then they do the same activity but with their eyes closed. The lesson is that obviously you're going to get more out of something when you can see your goals and it is difficult to aim when you don't know what you're aiming at.