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Our Phi­los­o­phy of stu­dent development

2Combining Expertise with Innovation Com­bin­ing exper­tise with innovation

All the Equip Prod­ucts are derived from our unique Equip Schools Cur­ricu­lum. Devel­oped over many years, this cur­ricu­lum of skills and mind­sets is based expe­ri­ence with over 30,000 stu­dents nation­wide, as well as exten­sive research into stu­dent moti­va­tion, learn­ing and performance.
2Developing Students with Intention and Strategy Devel­op­ing stu­dents with inten­tion and strategy

We have devel­oped a model of stu­dent respon­sive­ness, iden­ti­fy­ing the behav­iours and beliefs that inhibit or pro­duce con­fi­dent, inde­pen­dent, and resilient stu­dents. This model not only iden­ti­fies the stages from eva­sive, to pas­sive, to reac­tive, to proac­tive, and ulti­mately to adap­tive learn­ers; it sets out the par­tic­u­lar strate­gies and skills required to move stu­dents forward.

2Preparing Students for Life Prepar­ing stu­dents for life, not just school

We com­mit­ted to invest­ing in stu­dents the life skills they require to suc­ceed at school and beyond. By devel­op­ing skills such as time man­age­ment, organ­i­sa­tion, learn­ing strate­gies, plan­ning and reflec­tion, stu­dents are not only equipped to reach their poten­tial at school, but they are trained in the skills they will need in the future of work and training.

2Radically Improving Student Performance Rad­i­cally improv­ing stu­dent performance

Too often the approach of schools and fam­i­lies when faced with poor stu­dent per­for­mance is to teach more con­tent, more often. Unfor­tu­nately, this rarely leads to results. How­ever, we have found that invest­ing in a student’s learn­ing strate­gies, exam prepa­ra­tion approach, project plan­ning, moti­va­tion, organ­i­sa­tion and time man­age­ment, stu­dents can rede­fine their per­for­mance. And we are com­mit­ted to pro­duc­ing these results for fam­i­lies and schools.

Our prod­ucts

Our prod­ucts are founded on exten­sive edu­ca­tional research, tech­no­log­i­cal exper­tise and prac­ti­cal results.

Pie Graph Edu­ca­tional Foun­da­tion: The EQUIP Curriculum

The gen­e­sis of the EQUIP Cur­ricu­lum and Pro­gram is founded on over 8 years of edu­ca­tional train­ing, research and stu­dent engage­ment. The EQUIP Cur­ricu­lum has been devel­oped by Eddie Gan­de­via, with on-going research being con­ducted under the guid­ance and super­vi­sion of lead­ing edu­ca­tional aca­d­e­mics from the Uni­ver­sity of Syd­ney as well as the first hand exper­tise of Simon Break­s­pear, our Edu­ca­tional Director.

The com­bined edu­ca­tional expe­ri­ence, research and inno­va­tion is embed­ded in the EQUIP Schools Pro­gram (EQUIP Online, the EQUIP Hand­book and the EQUIP Work­shops). Each ele­ment exhibits an inten­tional and sophis­ti­cated ped­a­gog­i­cal approach to stu­dent moti­va­tion and performance.

Tech­ni­cal Foun­da­tion: EQUIP Online

EQUIP Online is a soft­ware appli­ca­tion for stu­dents, teach­ers and par­ents and lies at the heart of Tal­ent Generation’s Equip Schools Pro­gram. This cut­ting edge sys­tem is both sophis­ti­cated and cus­tomis­able, pro­vid­ing stu­dents with the tools to effec­tively man­age their time, refine organ­i­sa­tional skills, and adopt good habits in plan­ning and reflec­tion. The system’s com­pre­hen­sive data report­ing capa­bil­i­ties allows schools to bet­ter fos­ter and strengthen their edu­ca­tional part­ner­ship with stu­dents, par­ents and teach­ing staff.

This online soft­ware appli­ca­tion has been designed and devel­oped util­is­ing the lat­est in Self-Reflective data col­lec­tion and Web 2.0 technologies.

Line Graph Sta­tis­ti­cal Design and Self-Reflective Data Analysis

EQUIP Online and the entire EQUIP pro­gram has been designed under the guid­ance of sta­tis­ti­cal experts from a range of research insti­tu­tions. Sta­tis­ti­cians asso­ci­ated with both the Uni­ver­sity of New South Wales and the Prince of Wales Med­ical Research Insti­tute have pro­vided advice and input on the tech­niques and meth­ods within the self-reflective online appli­ca­tion, EQUIP Online.

This exper­tise will be relied upon in an ongo­ing way as data is analysed and pro­vided to schools and stu­dents as reg­u­lar semes­ter reports on growth, per­for­mance, and usage.

IT Soft­ware Development

EQUIP Online is built using one of the most sophis­ti­cated Con­tent Man­age­ment Sys­tems avail­able in the global mar­ket. Experts in soft­ware devel­op­ment com­bine the lat­est in Web 2.0 and 3.0 tech­nolo­gies to cre­ate an inter­ac­tive, fast and usable plat­form for stu­dents, par­ents and teachers.

The same plat­form pro­vides social net­work­ing and global com­merce inter­faces for inter­na­tional clients with out­stand­ing results.

Tal­ent Gen­er­a­tion seeks to unite first class exper­tise, whether edu­ca­tional or tech­no­log­i­cal, with inno­va­tion and enthu­si­asm in a way that con­nects with young peo­ple. To this end we feel qual­i­fied to present to you the EQUIP Schools Pro­gram with con­fi­dence in its vision and results.

Prac­ti­cal Results: Expe­ri­ence with over 30,000 stu­dents nation­wide (and soon to be international)

It is one thing to be grounded in the­o­ret­i­cal and tech­no­log­i­cal exper­tise. It is quite another to deliver pow­er­ful results. Over the last 8 years, mem­bers of the Tal­ent Gen­er­a­tion team have been work­ing with stu­dents and teach­ers all over Aus­tralia, cur­rently work­ing with schools and stu­dents in NSW, VIC, ACT, NT, WA and SA, and is on the fron­tier of work­ing with schools in South East Asia and the Euro­pean Union.

Our peo­ple

The Tal­ent Gen­er­a­tion Team

The team at Tal­ent Gen­er­a­tion have a pas­sion for invest­ing in the lives of oth­ers. Com­ing from per­sonal suc­cesses at school and in the work­force beyond, we are com­mit­ted to serv­ing and part­ner­ing with schools and fam­i­lies to develop young peo­ple who are ready and able to suc­ceed in life.

Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Eddie Gandevia

BSc (Phi­los­o­phy), LLB (Hons) [current]

Eddie Gan­de­via grad­u­ated school on an aca­d­e­mic schol­ar­ship with a UAI of 98.60, and com­pleted a com­bined Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence (Phi­los­o­phy) & Law with hon­ours. He has pre­sented to over 15,000 high school and uni­ver­sity stu­dents through­out Aus­tralia, and per­son­ally men­tored hun­dreds of students.

His for­mer role within Nextgen Learn­ing and now as Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of Tal­ent Gen­er­a­tion has given him 5 years of expe­ri­ence as a provider of edu­ca­tional ser­vices, with a par­tic­u­lar focus on inno­vat­ing edu­ca­tional meth­ods in the area of Self-Regulated Learn­ing. Under the super­vi­sion of lead­ing minds in edu­ca­tion, Eddie has com­piled the lat­est edu­ca­tional research in stu­dent moti­va­tion and engage­ment cul­mi­nat­ing in the pub­li­ca­tion of the aca­d­e­mic whitepa­per, Equip­ping Stu­dents For Suc­cess.

Under Eddie’s lead­er­ship, Tal­ent Gen­er­a­tion is gen­er­at­ing Web 2.0 solu­tions for engag­ing, equip­ping and empow­er­ing stu­dents at uni­ver­sity through an online soft­ware appli­ca­tion ‘ENGAGE’. ENGAGE is designed to employ edu­ca­tional and social func­tion­al­ity into usable and inno­vate social-networking plat­form, cre­at­ing the intel­lec­tual and social hub of stu­dent life on uni­ver­sity cam­puses. This project has already won a grant from the world’s largest prod­uct label com­pany Proc­tor & Gamble.

Eddie Gan­de­via con­tin­ues to direct a Learn­ing Cen­tre, run out of the Uni­ver­sity of New South Wales as well as train­ing and sup­port­ing a team of EQUIP stu­dent coaches. Within just 6 months of oper­a­tion, Tal­ent Gen­er­a­tion received nation­wide print and media cov­er­age for its inno­v­a­tive vision within edu­ca­tion.



Edu­ca­tional Direc­tor, Simon Break­s­pear


BPsy­chol (Hons 1st), BTeach, MSc (Com­par­a­tive Inter­na­tional Edu­ca­tion, Oxford)

Simon grad­u­ated with a UAI of 99.70, has com­pleted a Bach­e­lor of Psy­chol­ogy with first class hon­ours, a Bach­e­lor of Teach­ing, and an MSc Com­par­a­tive Inter­na­tional Edu­ca­tion at Oxford Uni­ver­sity as a Com­mon­wealth Scholar. He has recently begun a PhD at Cam­bridge Uni­ver­sity as a Gates Scholar.

Simon con­tin­ues to develop his pro­file as a thought leader in Stu­dent Devel­op­ment, Edu­ca­tional Lead­er­ship and Moti­va­tion & Inde­pen­dent Learn­ing, hav­ing spo­ken to over 20,000 stu­dents through­out Aus­tralia. Simon has worked closely with schools, includ­ing hold­ing the posi­tion of Year 12 Coor­di­na­tor in a Lead­ing Syd­ney Inde­pen­dent School.

Over the past 8 years he has cre­ated inno­v­a­tive new meth­ods for teach­ing Gen­er­a­tion Y stu­dents how to gain con­trol, learn effec­tively and per­form in an increas­ingly high-pressured edu­ca­tional envi­ron­ment. His edu­ca­tional opin­ion extends beyond the aca­d­e­mic world and into the pub­lic media includ­ing fea­tures such as SBS’s Insight, Chan­nel 7’s Today Tonight, as well as speak­ing at the 2009 Annual ACEL Conference.

Simon’s work cur­rently focuses on the gen­er­a­tion of edu­ca­tional mate­ri­als and the devel­op­ment of Tal­ent Gen­er­a­tion net­works in the Euro­pean Union.