There are two ways of succeeding at any topic. The first way is to have some one teach it to you fully. That comes from your regular school and tuition. The other is to have someone help you learn how to learn it! By brainstorming the topic with you. So you don't just memorize it but you really understand it and why it is important to you. These areas and topics could be anything - academic or extra-curricular. They could be:
1) Proactive things such as a passion or an interest that you want to nurture but don't have anyone to informally talk to you about it.
2) Normal but non-routine things such as figuring what you want to study/work on, as you get older. And how to maximize what you can achieve (and l/earn!)
3) Deficit areas such as problems with a specific study topic. Or trouble structuring your thoughts so can start writing a report/essay/post.
I am sure you would have faced some of these at one point or the other. Many of these requirements could be non-curriculum things. Your schools, poly or tuition centres are not really geared at these piecemeal individual requirements and your parents simply may not be able to help. This where we want to come in.
We just try to help you think for yourself. To create a plan for such thinking. Normally over a few, maybe one-three 1-hour sessions of brainstorming together. To bootstrap (help start) you up to a point where you know what to do clearly.
Parents/Guardians: I know it is kind of difficult to see how this works. But in summary, for each student we will normally offer one to three short sessions as a plan at one time. So it is will be a short term interaction on specific individual issues or topics that the student wants to work on.
The focus is not on teaching. We want the student to learn to think out problems by herself /himself so they can repeat it again and again. To other problems, other topics, other challenges. To facilitate that, we are a listening ear, a guiding hand and an intelligent brainstormer, rolled into one!
See examples in the next session.