What we are about

What we are about is contributing to our great nation by establishing learning as the centre focus of relationships between schools and community. This begins by developing independent learners, allowing students to become self sufficient in all areas of their lives, starting in the classroom and flowing into the community.

The Way we do it

This is achieved by teachers applying a questioning technique that underpins their teaching practices. The technique stimulates the students thinking in such a way that they can find their own answers and solutions to any given situation regardless of age, sex, status, circumstances or environment.

The questioning technique has evolved from the Attitude by Choice Program (ABC).

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What the Attitude by Choice Program (ABC) is about

The ABC Program when applied will develop the teachers’ and students’ ability to choose their own thoughts, develop their own concepts, stimulate their own emotions and develop their own habitual behaviour patterns.

The Program is in its eighth year of development. It began as a one-to-one process and was aimed at youth in crisis. Over the period of time it has evolved into a whole classroom approach. It works on the understanding that we all have the ability to choose our own thoughts and that our thoughts are the paintbrushes of our perception and our perception fuel our emotions and our emotions drive our actions.

The ABC program is designed to develop the student’s ability to choose their own thoughts. To develop the skill in the early stages, relies on the teacher using questioning as the base of their teaching technique. Whilst this sounds simple it can be quite challenging for teachers.

Our research has shown that there is a strong correlation between someone who learns through Asking, becoming an independent learner and a student who is taught through the Telling becoming a dependent learner. Often the way you recognise a dependent learner is that the student will do exactly what they are told but only what they are told and wait for the next instruction. An independent learner will need very little supervision and they will often only seek confirmation that they are on the right track.

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The services we provide to support the ABC Program are:

The service begins with a one-day Workshop for Teachers. What we cover in the workshops:

The workshop was developed from Randall’s research in classrooms around Australia, working directly with classroom teachers and students. They ranged from early learning to senior years, some highly skilled in the craft and others struggling to survive. Their input and feedback is what has molded the day.

‘I constantly look for what works’.

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Follow-up

We offer follow-up days for schools that either have or are attempting to implement the technique in the classrooms, working with the teachers in the classroom.

Schools and Clusters

We train teachers who continue to develop the technique with other teachers in the schools.

Whole School Development

We also work with schools on ‘whole school’ development, changing the culture of the school by establishing learning as the heart rather than behaviour.

Guest Speaker (story teller)

Randall enjoys attending Conferences as a Guest Speaker.

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