Dr. Rupert Pearson

PARTICULAR INTERESTS of Rupert Pearson include facilitating learning with ADHD / executive dysfunctions and co-occurring factors, including:

• giftedness or ambition;
• challenges relating to 
  • language, literacy and numeracy, 
  • emotional, sensory and motor function, 
  • empathic, abstract and technical perspective-taking,
  • identification and evaluation of pattern, planning and purpose,
  • with or without additional diagnoses such as of Autism Spectrum Disorders; and
• relevant maladapted habits such as
  • ‘maths anxiety’,
  • dysfunctional perfectionism,
  • maladaptive stoicism or avoidance,
  • and involuntary daydreaming.

SUBJECT TUITION

• Early Years phonics, literacy and numeracy,
• Eng Lit & Lang, History, Ancient H., Politics, Psych (to 18+),
• Maths, Phy, Che, Bio, Geography, RS (to 16+),
• Support for French and Latin (to 11+),
• Study- and essay-skills (for all other subjects and levels to Postgraduate).

ASSESSMENT TYPES

School Admissions:

• at 3+ through 16+ (CE / CASE / CAT, Ukiset, CEM, ISEB, GL, school-specific papers, interviews and observed group tasks, et cetera)

Secondary level exams: 

• (i)GCSE, IB-IBO, IB-CIE-OIB, Pre-U, A-Level, BTEC Dip L-3

STRATEGIC RAPPORT. Strategic Rapport is Rupert Pearson’s approach to combined formative assessment, scaffolded independent learning, and one-to-one didactics. Strategic Rapport emphasises discrete, acute, qualitative formative assessment (empathetic and technical), enabling highly proactive adaptation of intended learning. This typically includes tight and precisely customised spiral curricula of missed or maladapted fundamental skills and knowledge, remedially or complimentarily folded into the required curricular, social or meta-learning.

Strategic Rapport employs its own techniques for PROBLEM SOLVING (‘Mêtis’), MOTIVATIONAL MINDSET (‘Growth Mêtis’) and for executing orderly and logically sequenced adaptive campaigns of learning (MIDAS) inspired by Incidental Teaching, Embedded Discrete Trial Teaching, Imitation Method, Social Problem Solving Therapy, neuropsychology and consciousness research, ancient Hellenic strategic thinking, systems engineering, best practice mainstream teaching methods, and more. 

Strategic Rapport draws further insight, precedent and enrichment from diverse techniques and initiatives — from Strategic Tutoring (Strategic Instruction Model) to Cognitive Strategic Instruction (Self-regulation Strategy Development Model), from Prevention Science (eg, Motivational Interviewing for attitude and comprehension; Cardio-vascular assignments for cognitive support, etc) to Visible Learning (providing for better teacher-student-teacher interaction, among other things), and so on.

Formal approaches to STUDENT SELF-KNOWLEDGE, SELF-REGULATION AND PERSONAL EDUCATIONAL HEALTH are fragmented across disciplines, yet integral to the needs of the student with ADHD. They must be brought forth from such unlike sources as pedagogy, therapy, psychoeducation, metacognition, epistemology, preventative medicine, psychology, neurology, etc.., and in a manner that is customised to the individual student.