Support Your Struggling Student With a Kolbe Assessment From E3 Discovery
Picture your child as a traditional wristwatch. From an outsider’s perspective, all you can see are the hands slowly moving clockwise on the face. You see the result, not the work happening beneath the surface.
So, what makes your child tick? What’s happening internally?
Chances are the gears and mechanisms that generate action are not like other watches. They are unique to that watch and that watch alone. In other words, how your child ticks is specific to them, including how they approach schoolwork and projects.
Classroom struggles are one of the most common problems parents and educators face, especially with younger children who can’t clearly communicate their challenges.
Keep reading to learn how Kolbe consultants provide support for struggling students and demystify classroom struggles.
How a Kolbe Assessment Avoids “The Blame Game”
When you learn your child is having trouble in school, naturally, you want to identify the root cause of the issue.
“Is the teacher just not good at their job?”
“Is my child checked out because they’re not interested in the material?”
“Does my child have a learning disability?”
Questions like these are perfectly natural, but can result in assigning blame to the wrong person or factor without digging deeper. Sometimes you may feel so protective that you have a hard time accepting that your child is facing challenges at school.
The blame game is a painful process that often does more harm than good. It’s also largely dictated by emotion rather than science and evidence. Fortunately, you have options for getting to the bottom of classroom troubles.
The Kolbe assessment is a professional evaluation tool that determines a person’s natural approach when given a project or a problem. Unlike other assessments that focus on how people think and feel, Kolbe assessments focus on what people do, also known as conative behavior.
This information allows you to start identifying and implementing solutions that help your child overcome classroom obstacles and pain points.
Ready to schedule a Kolbe assessment for your child? Contact our Kolbe-certified consultants at E3 Discovery to learn more.
What Kolbe Assessment Results Reveal About Your Child
The Kolbe assessment isn’t pass-fail, nor does it delve into your child’s emotions or thoughts. This assessment reveals your child’s natural instincts when approaching projects, academic and otherwise.
Kolbe assessment results include a one-out-of-ten score for four metrics, known as Action Modes®. The higher the score, the more the Action Mode® leads in your child’s process.
The four Kolbe Action Modes® are:
- Fact Finder: How you gather and share information.
- Follow Thru: How you organize and design.
- Quick Start: How you deal with risk and uncertainty.
- Implementor: How you handle space and tangibles.
Action Mode® Leading Examples
Learning which Action Mode® leads your child’s work approach can reveal why they thrive in some scenarios, but struggle in others. For example, if a Quick-Start leading child was assigned to create a truss bridge out of popsicle sticks and glue, their natural instinct would be to start building as soon as possible.
The Quick Start child’s approach may cause them to speed through researching how to build the bridge or skip the planning phase. Obviously, this method of bridge-building increases the likelihood of mistakes, which creates additional obstacles and extends the overall process.
Although bridge-building may not be well suited for a Quick Start, there are other areas where they thrive. For example, if they were assigned to write a fictional short story that features a talking animal, a celebrity, and their favorite food, the Quick Start child’s creative abilities and improvisational skills allows them to do this with relative ease.
Conversely, a Fact Finder lead may experience writer’s block because their natural instinct is to conduct research before taking action. A Follow Thru-leading child may get caught up in developing a way to structure the assignment as a process. And an Implementor-leading would likely prefer to tell the story as an illustration or model rather than text.
Kolbe consultants at E3 Discovery use real-world examples like these when translating your child’s Kolbe assessment results. Understanding your child’s natural aptitudes and tendencies cuts through the blame game and fosters a better classroom experience.
Need help for a troubled child? Contact E3 Discovery to get started.
Get Support For Your Struggling Student
One of the main advantages of the Kolbe assessment is that the results never change. How your child naturally approaches work in their teens will remain the same well into adulthood. By learning how your child ticks during early adolescence – age 10 and up – you can nurture your child to become a better problem-solver in the classroom.
Get help for your troubled child today by contacting our Kolbe consultants at E3 Discovery. After your child takes the Kolbe assessment, you’ll receive an in-depth consultation that explains your child’s Action Modes® in practical terms, how to play to their strengths, and how to overcome challenges in the classroom.
Call E3 Discovery at (913) 292-9997 to schedule your child’s Kolbe assessment.
