South Africa's largest provider of study skills seminars
South Africa's largest provider of study skills seminars
Improving student performance at over
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Each year Elevate Education provides study skills seminars and workshops to over 2,000 schools and 500,000 students. Drawing upon 19 years of research into the habits of the country’s top students, Elevate’s high impact seminars and workshops help students to improve their study techniques, increase motivation, improve organisational skills, increase student confidence and raise exam performance.
Elevate’s reputation for achieving behavioural change has led the company to become an international leader in education, working with the highest performing schools in South Africa, Australia, UK, USA, and Singapore. For its work with schools globally, Elevate has won the Nescafe Big Break Award, the Telstra Business of the year award 2014 and spoken at TEDx Tallinn.
Bespoke programs for your school
The old study skills day is dead! Elevate runs short-sharp workshops spaced strategically across the year. Each session is tailored to the needs of your students, ensuring that it is highly relevant to your school. By spacing sessions across the year, schools ensure that students are introduced to skills at the time when they are most likely to use them.
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Young presenters students can relate to
Avoid your study skills programs becoming a bore! Elevate uses young presenters who have recently faced and aced high school. Speaking the students’ language, they can engage the students on their level, and by drawing on their own personal stories and experiences, they give the skills an unmatchable immediacy.
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Post Seminar Resources
Ensure that your study skills program is more than a one-off. Elevate realises that study skills, like any other set of skills, are built through repetition and review. As such, Elevate provides schools with a range of resources that teachers can use to follow-up in the classroom and ensure that students use Elevate’s skills consistently enough that they become habit.
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Digital Resources
Every student can connect with Elevate’s online learning community, where they can access a range of resources that they will actually use! This includes practice questions, exam walk-through videos, study and subject tips from former top students, exam preparation courses and more.
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Parent & Staff Training
Make sure the study skills message is integrated into the school community! Elevate’s staff seminars ensure that your school’s teaching staff are aware of the skills that have been covered with their students, as well as global best practice for reinforcing each skill in the classroom. Elevate’s parent seminars provide your parent body with the ability to effectively assist their children without crossing the line and becoming the enemy.
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Accountable, Researched, Measurable
Make sure you actually get results and return on investment! Elevate uses a system called Results Tracker to measure the level of behavioural change achieved by each program. This data is compiled into a report that clearly documents the degree to which students have adopted and used each skill from the seminar, so that you can ensure you are getting value for money.
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Measurable Change
Elevate’s Results Tracker program documents the level of behavioural change achieved by each program, so you can determine your return on investment.
- Pre-Seminar
- Post-Seminar
Percentage of students using balanced study timetables
Only 4% of student responses to the pre-seminar survey indicated use of balanced study timetables. 6 weeks post-seminar, survey results indicated that 54% of students were implementing Elevate's time management techniques to develop balanced study timetables.
Measurable Change
in student behaviour
Elevate’s Results Tracker program documents the level of behavioural change achieved by each program, so you can determine your return on investment.
- Pre-Seminar
- Post-Seminar
Percentage of students using critical reading strategies
Prior to Elevate's Kick Start seminar, 9.8% of student responses indicated that they used critical reading techniques when presented with an article or other reading material. The subsequent 13 weeks showed an increase of up to 70% of students reporting that they use critical reading techniques covered in the Kick Start seminar.
Measurable Change
in student behaviour
Elevate’s Results Tracker program documents the level of behavioural change achieved by each program, so you can determine your return on investment.
- Pre-Seminar
- Post-Seminar
Percentage of students using mind-maps for revision purposes
The pre-seminar survey indicated that less than 4% of students utilised mind-maps as a revision tool. 6 weeks after the study sensei seminar, 37% of students reported to be using mind-maps to assist in their revision.
Measurable Change
in student behaviour
Elevate’s Results Tracker program documents the level of behavioural change achieved by each program, so you can determine your return on investment.
- Pre-Seminar
- Post-Seminar
Percentage of students who feel confident in their ability to manage stress before exams.
Prior to Elevate's Ace Your Exams seminar, students were asked to rate their confidence levels regarding their ability to managing stress before exams. Prior to the seminar, 17.5% of students reported that they were 'confident' in their ability. After the seminar, this figure doubled.
What people are saying
"We have no doubt that our pupils benefit, not just for their studying whilst at school, but in terms of acquiring lifelong skills that will last long after their final bell at school has rung...You have an amazing product. Our pupils have benefited so much from it.”
- Teacher, Woodhill College
What people are saying
"It was brilliant! It was very informative, every student could relate. I enjoyed it and I am glad that we were able to interact."
- Student, Groote Schuur High School
What people are saying
"Excellent. Everything that has been said is useful and relevant for me. I'll be using all these techniques for my future exams."
- Student, Groote Schuur High School
What people are saying
"10/10. It was the first study skills lesson that I could relate to and enjoy."
- Student, Thomas More College
What people are saying
"Very enjoyable and easy to listen to. The overall program was very informative and it really helped in my studying methods. Having a young, funny presenter made it easier to pay attention."
- Student, The Grove Primary