Life Skill Programs With A Difference

Today’s quantum youth live in a hyper-connected world where lifelong learning skills are in greater demand than schools are equipped to deliver. More than a quarter century ago, QLN founders built their learning and life skills business on three converging needs:
• A positive way to experience strengths earlier in life
• Acquiring “learning-how-to-learn” skills to process accelerating data
• A better way to keep up with young brains rewired by mega-sensory stimulation

Quantum Learning Network’s (QLN) learning and life skills expand the definition of literacy from reading, writing, ‘rithmetic’ to reading, writing and readiness. QLN’s differentiating product is readiness through personal and academic excellence.

QLN programs hold the keys to shift a youth’s self-perception into positive mode, unlock a teacher’s passion, revive a parent’s hope and dynamically focus an adult’s inner vision.

Our Programs

These programs address the reality of the student’s everyday life and offers guidance and solutions to everyday real situations. The students have the opportunity to explore their relationships, goal setting, time management and organisational strategies, and committing to the responsibility for all outcomes in their everyday life.

The students will cover all areas of this holistic program from relationships with family members, goal setting, time and organisational strategies, and developing responsibility for all outcomes in life.

The delivery of the program is interactive, physical, and personal to the needs of the individual and the group. The program aims to build realistic confidence in an individual ability in relationships, academic enhancement and study strategies.

These programs can be delivered as either a residential or non-residential program.

Other School and Organisation Tailor Programs:

All programs are can be tailored to each groups needs, age and abilities, from 3 years to 55 years.

GET SMART - Lead Smart
I am a leader. A leader is not born; leadership can be learnt and practiced. The GET SMART Leadership Program focuses on development skills which can be acquired by just about anyone. If there is a desire or a need, leaders will arise. Now you have the opportunity to be the effective leader you know you want to be, or that you realise you are going to have to be!

GET SMART - Street Smart
This program addresses the reality of the student’s everyday life and offers guidance and solutions to everyday situations. The students have the opportunity to explore their relationships, goal setting, time management and organisational strategies, and committing to the responsibility for all outcomes in their everyday life.

GET SMART - Book Smart
Students gain practical skills to enhance their academic achievement, study ability and focus. Academic sections include; Writing, Fast Reading; Memory Development Techniques. Study and organizational strategies include; effective note taking, mind mapping, gaining more from class, how you learn, test taking techniques. These modules can be designed to suit students across the age and ability spectrum, from 6 years old to university students.

GET SMART - Adventure Smart
100% outside the school classroom, this physical and experiential program focuses on problem solving, communication, self development and confidence building. The experiential discovery helps student through a process of self development and personal discovery. All of the elements of the program continually draw on how they can influence their everyday life.

Five Main Components of life skills program

	Integrity Students will identify values which are important to their family, school, peers, culture, and self. They will be able to demonstrate positive actions which will align with their identified values.
	Communication Students participate in activities to highlight the importance of communication and hone their skills in communication. They will begin to identify and manage their own internal dialog and the part that plays in their personal success.
	Commitment Students will go through the process of goal setting including planning, reassessment, and overcoming obstacles. They will identify where they can draw strength from, and to learn from past failures to achieve their goals.
	Balance Students will develop an understanding of balance in school and home life. Also gain Time Management and Organisational Strategies. They will be able to identify and discuss issues requiring balance in life such as relationships and health.
	Responsibility Students will identify their responsibilities to themselves, their family, their peers, school and community. They will gain confidence and skills to be able to appropriately accept positive and negative consequences for their actions.

For all of our programs, we are also interested to share our experiences with school and community groups that have students with special needs.

GETSMART – Confidence with Language Program

This GET SMART Program will be tailor-made for the school, group or organisation, using quantum learning teaching methodology, to give confidence to all learners.

This program is designed to build the student’s confidence to tackle challenges in language learning and adapting to an immersed English environment as well as challenging and stimulating first language learners in confidence in communication skills with peers and teachers.

Goals

The goals for the different learners are dependent on their previous language abilities:

1. Enrichment – L1 (First language speakers)
• Enhance their confidence and flow with English
• Enhance their confidence for performances and public speaking
• Develop creative skills in speaking, composition and story telling

2. Remedial – L2 (Second language speakers)
• Develop their confidence and flow with English
• Provide extra support in pronunciation, grammar, and comprehension, with the
   four aspects of the language; writing, speaking, listening and reading

3. Basic – EFL (English as a Foreign Language)
• Develop their use and understanding of everyday (Classroom/School) English
• Give them a foundation in the four aspects of language; writing, speaking,
   listening and reading
• Provide them with communication tools to enable them to be more effective
   learners in the English Speaking environment

Delivery and Content

The delivery of the program is interactive, physical, and personal to the needs of the individual and the group. The program aims to build realistic confidence in an individual through Adventure Based Learning (ABL). Facilitators deliver the workshop information in a variety of ways, including the use of Accelerated Learning Techniques, Emotional Social Learning and Experiential Based Activities.

Why have Confidence with Language Program?

All aspects of the school; environment, operations, curriculum and assessment, requires a student to be have a functional English ability to achieve and succeed.

The greater the number of non-English speakers in the school environment, the less likely there will be success within the whole cohort. As teachers' time is taken away from teaching the whole group to supporting the non-English speakers.

If we can provide a foundation of language for the non English Speakers, and develop the comprehension of the remedial and second language speakers, this will improve the results for the year group across curricular.

The first weeks of the school year is the best place to start this change in development. This is the phase of the school life where students are unlikely to be retaining subject matter, as they are still coming to terms with their environment. Not until a student (any student) is comfortable in their environment will they begin to learn the subject material.

Curriculum information

For all classes, the students will learn and practise all aspects of language everyday, including:

Potential activities in a Language Program include:

Please note that the majority of these activities can be partnered with most subjects.

Classroom (everyday) Language
• Labelling everything
• Songs
• Routine
• Actions
• Rhythm
• Games – Naming / Searching / Matching

Reading
• Read books - dictionary
• Reading competitions
• Tell back
• Types of reading
• Word chunks
• Letter recognition
• Word recognition
• Word replacement
• Flash games
• Routine
• Games

Writing
• Games – spelling / grammar
• Increase vocabulary - dictionary
• Grammar, correction activities / construction
• Routine
• Types of writing
• Free writing
• Brain storming
• Rhyming
• Letter formation / stroke order
• Skeleton writing

Speaking
• Drama
• Role plays
• Tell back
• Expression / emotion
• Rhythm
• Games
• Picture description
• Songs
• Pair work / surveys
• Routine / opportunity

Listening
• Drama
• Listening comprehension scripts
• Games – instructions
• Rhythm
• Songs
• Being read to

Weekly Goals

There will be a written objective for each aspect of the class matching the outcomes for the week. This is to help with evaluation process to help the teacher see if they are reaching their students.

For example, an outcome for a vocabulary lesson could be:
The student can use 8 of the noun words in a 5 word sentence.

Evaluation

Throughout the program there is a need for constant evaluation to give the teacher feedback on the process of their class. This evaluation can be done by each class teacher, and will be closely aligned with the outcome goals.

Are you interested in these programs at your school, or community group?

This program is flexible; and can be tailored to any base curriculum, depending on the needs of the group. The flexibility extends to being adjusted for differing ages, and frequency of attendance.

The program is delivered progressively, the gradient level of the material increases, to provide for building confidence and success. All of the sessions are developed for the appropriate social, emotional and cognitive level for each age group.

Please contact our Team, to see how we can tailor a program for you!