Life Coaching for Teens
Academic Life Coaching Helps Students Take Advantage of the Best Options
Academic Life Coaching is a series of skills and concepts delivered by a trained and certified Academic Life Coach that helps students take advantage of the best options available to them. Academic Life Coaching helps students understand how they study and learn best, how they exercise their personal brand of leadership, and how to be more proactive in their lives. The skills teenagers learn now have an exponential impact on their future. Learning these skills helps students avoid common pitfalls and it also changes the upward trajectory of their fulfillment, success, and effectiveness.
Specific Problems Addressed by Academic Life Coaching
Like most high school students and their parents, you’re probably looking ahead to the future and thinking about the available options and the best way to be equipped to be successful. You’re probably in the middle of the high school years (or just about to jump in) and the college application is on the horizon. The Academic Life Coaching Program specifically targets:
- Stress over grades (whether students are getting A’s but are completely stressed out or they are underperforming and getting grades that will limit future options)
- Anxiety about college admissions and completing the college application
- Frustrating Parent-Teen communication
- Concern that students aren’t learning the necessary skills to be successful adults
- Uncertainty about the best options available and what students can be doing to keep their options open
The Academic Life Coaching Program was created specifically for middle and high school students. It was honed by the experience of hundreds of students giving feedback on the concepts and charting movement in their grades and self-analysis of their confidence, happiness, and reduction of stress levels.
What Academic Life Coaching Can Do For You
If any of the following statements describe you, then you or your child can benefit from Academic Life Coaching.
If you are a parent of a teenager (or two) and:
- You are feeling a little anxious (as well as a little excited) about your child being able to take advantage of best the opportunities available to young people today.
- You are the kind of person, who as a parent, wants to be on the cutting-edge of what’s happening in education. You think that the traditional curriculum is good, but you like the idea of enriching your child’s education with varied experiences.
- You like the idea of your child knowing their learning and motivation style as well as other concepts that will help your child be a better student and score well on standardized tests.
- You believe in investing in your child’s education and you’re willing to try a program that you think looks promising. The Academic Life Coach Program isn’t extravagantly expensive ($650 to $1500 depending on your coach and geographic location) and scholarships do exist for students from low-income families. However, the Academic Life Coaching Program isn’t just an investment of money. It’s also time and energy, and you have to be the kind of person who believes in the value of investing in education.
- You believe in the high potential of human beings, and what people are capable of accomplishing if they have the right resources.
If you are a teenager and:
- You want to learn about your learning, motivation and personality style and learn how to apply that understanding to your life.
- You are willing to learn new skills and concepts that will be challenging, stretch you, and push you to come to terms with how you can leverage your strengths and manage your weaknesses.
- You are tired of being stressed out about school and want to learn new ways of keeping track of your assignments, time, and energy so that you develop systems to stay on top of your work.
Why is Academic Life Coaching Effective?
When teenagers work with a trained and certified Academic Life Coach, they learn skills that help them get better grades with less stress because they understand their learning and motivation style. They get more organized because they learn their motivation style and tools to develop effective systems. They create successful college applications because they demonstrate a strong Emotional Intelligence and Personal Fluency, which college admission officers are looking for. The bottom-line is that students in the Academic Life Coaching program demonstrate more leadership and become more proactive in their life.
Life Coaching is similar to mentoring, and a large mentoring component is incorporated into the Academic Life Coaching Program. The Academic Life Coaching program is so effective because the action plan doesn’t just come from the life coach. The coach and the student design the action together. Because most of the specific action comes from the student and is informed by the concepts and principles from the coach, students follow through with more success. Students own the success and understand how to apply the principle to other areas of their life.
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Overview and Logistics of the Academic Life Coaching Program
The Academic Life Coaching Program consists of 32 key concepts that students cover with their coach over the course of ten sessions. Sessions are usually spaced once every one or two weeks and students take an average of four months to complete the program. Since students meet with their coach over a long period of time, they can incorporate the skills and concepts into their life. Because a student meets with a coach individually, the coach can tailor the program to the specific needs of each student.
The Three Sections of the Academic Life Coaching Program
I. Learning and Motivation Styles, Foundation for Academic Success
The first third of the program addresses the skills necessary for academic success. Students learn about their own learning styles and exercises that they can use to learn better, and they also learn how to determine others’ learning styles and offer exercises that specifically match other students. The outcome is that students are more confident, knowing how they learn best. Trained students are also adept at matching their learning style to each of their teachers, ensuring that they can learn from many different styles of teaching.
The section also helps students with organization and creating systems to handle the stress of grades and the college application process. Students will learn the different kinds of organization and learn how to fit those types to different personalities. They will not only learn the concepts but how they can apply those concepts to help their peers.
II. Core Life Coaching Skills
Core Life Coaching skills - such as taking sustainable steps towards goals, identifying and changing perspectives, and aligning values with action - comprise the second third of the program. The Core Life Coaching skills section specifically trains students in the life coaching core skill set, as set out by the International Coaching Federation.
III. Personal Leadership and Powerful Communication
The last third of the Academic Life Coaching Program trains students in personal leadership and powerful communication skills. Students are trained in how to elicit effective mission statements and design personal leadership projects that elevate their peers to step up into leadership in their own peer groups, classrooms, families, and communities. The process is beautiful to watch as high school students are trained to help their peers step up into bigger leadership roles.