As mentors, your role is the “missing link” between a participant simply clicking buttons and achieving a transformative cognitive breakthrough. To help your mentees move from “engaging” to “changing,” you must focus on two critical areas: consistent adherence to the training prescription and the explicit transfer of those gains to the classroom.

1. Nailing the Prescription: Routine and Gamification

The key to neuroplasticity is low-stakes consistency. Rather than one long, exhausting session, aim for four or five short bursts of 15–20 minutes per week. You can integrate this as a “Mental Warm-up”—a 10-minute “pre-flight check” for the brain at the start of tutor time or a lesson.

To keep students motivated, shift the focus from “clocking in” time to their session levels target. You can further drive engagement by:

• Celebrating Personal Bests (PB): Use PB Boards that reward percentage improvement rather than absolute high scores. This ensures a level playing field, particularly for SEND students.
• Targeted Recognition: Award points or symbolic rewards for milestones in notoriously difficult categories like Double Decision or Target Tracker.
• Strategic Dashboard Reviews: A quick weekly comment on a student’s portfolio—acknowledging how they pushed through a tough level of Sound Sweeps—massively boosts resilience and engagement.

2. Bridging the Gap: From Brain Training to Academic Success

Cognitive gains only become valuable when students see their “Real-World Transfer”. As a mentor, you must help students connect the dots between their training and their subjects:

• Maths & Science: Explicitly ask: “Since you’ve been working on Working Memory, have you noticed it’s easier to hold those multi-step equations in your head?”
• Languages & Arts: Link Processing Speed to the ability to decode spoken French or Arabic more fluently, or connect Visual Sweep exercises to better sight-reading in music and spotting teammates on the football pitch.
• Use “Focus Checks” to encourage students to think about how they think. Ask students to rate their concentration on a scale of 1–10 and discuss how to mitigate distractions next time. 
• During “Brain Talk” sessions, ask them which exercises were the most frustrating. Identifying these “cognitive braking points” helps students view their brain as a muscle; remind them that when a level feels hard, “this is where the most growth happens”.

By combining data-driven mentorship with explicit curriculum links, you ensure that ENHANCE is not just an extra subject area, but a fundamental engine room for student development and school performance.

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