Teach children how to learn!

CHAMPS is a learning-to-learn course that teaches children ages 11-16 how to learn more effectively and to retain more of what they have learned - skills that will last a lifetime.

Enroll in Genie U today and receive the CHAMPS Learning Skills or Thinking Skills for Children CD-ROM, a $24.95 value, FREE.

To learn about our Thinking Skills for Children CD-ROM for children ages 6-10, click here.

CHAMPS is an Acronym for six learning stages that are important for learning:

Confident to learn
Includes techniques for self-motivation, relaxation, goal setting, making action plans, time management and even diet.

Home in on the facts
Shows children how to start with an overview of the subject, make notes of what they already know, create their own questions to keep focused, and how to use visual, auditor and physical note taking techniques based on their unique learning styles. It also includes reading and internet skills.

Action
This stage introduces students to the concept of Multiple Intelligences, developed by Dr. Howard Gardner of Harvard University. It lets them assess their own profile and then provides them with dozens of learning techniques to match their strengths.

Memorize it!
Includes effective memory techniques like image chains, peg words, 'togetherwords', memory maps, the loci system and how to make memorable revision cards.

Prove you know
Encourages students to continuously test their own knowledge and understanding, build a question bank, and use coaches and mentors. It also includes advice on effective revision, taking examinations and essay writing.

Sit back and Think
Encourages students to keep a "learning log" and continuously reflect, not only on WHAT they are learning, but HOW they are learning - so that they can become true LEARNING CHAMPS.

CHAMPS has a highly interactive, self-paced format. It will help students perform better through:

Motivation
Goal-setting
Managing their time
Better concentration
Effective listening
Reading skills
Understanding core ideas
Note-taking
Memorizing
Clear writing
Successful revision
Self-testing
Exam strategies
Memory mapping

1. Students Assess their Personal Learning Style
Research confirms that each student has a way of learning that suits them best - a preferred learning style. CHAMPS includes a unique test that lets each student assess his or her own preferred learning style. Then it teaches them the techniques that best match that learning style.

2. Over 100 techniques for successful learning
There are techniques for improved motivation, goal setting, reading, note taking, memorizing, revising, exam-taking --- each one explained in an interesting way by animated characters.

3. Examples from curriculum
Children can click on an interactive button to see how each technique can be used to learn a topic from their current curriculum.

4. Personalized learning locker
As they progress through the course, children place techniques into a personalized learning locker - building up a repertoire of successful learning techniques that suit them best

To learn about our free Thinking Skills for Children CD-ROM for children ages 6-10, click here.