Dealing positively with pressure to perform

Today, many children and young people can no longer cope with the rising performance expectations. They come under pressure, their performance at school is diminishing and therefore also leaves a lot to be desired. Frustration quickly gets ready, the joy of knowledge and learning fades, motivation is gone. But at the same time the immediate success at school is decisive for the future of the children.

In many cases, pupils lack just one building block to keep up with rising performance expectations and reduce pressure: the right learning strategies and thus the development of distinctive learning competence. And this is not only in demand at school today, but also in professional life the longer it lasts. Learning needs to be learned today.

This is exactly where fit4school comes in with its personal learning coachings.

Learning strategies can be developed and optimised.

How we humans learn is highly complex and fascinating. We acquire, process and store information in order to build implicit and explicit knowledge. And we are able to retrieve this knowledge at lightning speed. That we can learn and even think is certainly a gift and at the same time a miracle of nature.

Our abilities to learn and to think go so far that we are even able to learn our own learning. With learning strategies we can control our own learning.

Each person has their own individual learning strategies, which are interwoven into a unique, personal network: Learning competence. In our learning coachings, we develop, promote and optimise these learning strategies for children and young people in a targeted way, because those who have the right learning strategies for themselves and cleverly network them learn more successfully, build up more knowledge, which in turn can be used successfully.

Coaching priorities

The fit4school learning coachings are based on 5 different, age-appropriate modules with materials and working documents, each of which focuses on a specific focus:
- Coaching focus: focusing and concentration
- Coaching focus: working and learning techniques
- Coaching focus: Motivation
- Coaching focus: Organization and Planning
- Coaching focus: Hooray, the exam is here! 🙂
The goal is not to go through all modules, they do not follow a constructive concept. Rather it concerns to set the Coachingschwerpunkt, where with the respective pupil concrete need exists.

Let the center management advise and support you free of charge in order to determine the need correctly!

Who are the learning coachings suitable for?

Personal learning coaching is basically suitable for everyone, because it creates the basis for successful, lifelong learning. For pupils, personal learning coaching at fit4school can be particularly helpful,
- if they learn a lot, but the grades aren't right,
- as they become more and more dependent,
- when discussions with parents about learning, homework and insufficient or even poor performance arise and conflicts become the order of the day,
- when exam fears, blockades and blackouts become apparent,
- when self-confidence drops,
- when they're unmotivated or listless,
- when they're frustrated,
- or if they're tired of tutoring all the time.
The reasons for the above points can, of course, lie elsewhere. The fit4school centre managers and, in case of doubt, the school psychological services (SPD) of the cantons will be happy to advise you within the scope of their respective competences.

Who are the coaches?

Our coaches are experienced fit4school tutors who have qualified for this challenging task, successfully completed the corresponding selection process and are specially trained for this task. The center management assigns the appropriate coach to the respective student, whereby it is also possible to change the coach if desired - it is important that the student and the respective tutor fit together.