academic Programs
Jim's seminars and workshops are interactive, practical, and fun for kids and adults alike. You want yourself and your children to do their best. That is what these classes are about.
Jim offers programs for Gifted And Talented Education (GATE) curriculums, PTA meetings, teacher in-services, coaches, and student assemblies. To talk to Jim about programs, call (650) 369-3902.
Programs for Students
- Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) Program/Beginner: Leadership, memory, and creativity in a twelve part program.
- Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) Program/Intermediate: Leadership, memory, and enrichment in a twelve-part program.
- The Leadership Advantage/Beginner: Develop leadership traits from the inside out.
- The Leadership Advantage/Intermediate: Takes up where the beginner program left off.
- Secrets of a Super Memory/Beginner: Memory skills for students.
- Secrets of a Super Memory/Intermediate: Takes up where the beginner program left off.
- Creativity and Cartooning: Focuses on principals of creativity.
- Adventures in Goal-Setting (Student Assembly Program): Why are some people so successful?
- Adventures in Writing: Award winning columnist and author, Jim Wiltens, shares skills used by professional writers to create dynamic stories and articles.
- Sea Monsters I Have Known: An introduction to marine biology. Using stories and slides, a marine biologist introduces students to the behavior of a variety of sea creatures from sea anemones to jumbo squid and great white sharks.
- Plants Your Mother Never Told You About: The author of Edible and Poisonous Plants of Northern California gives kids a hands-on experience with botany.
- The Science of Survival: Come along with Jim Wiltens as he is marooned on an island off the coast of Canada. Biology, physics, anthropology, marine biology, botany, and psychology are woven into this story of survival. Jim delivers the same program at the California Academy of Sciences.
- Mysteries of the Mayan Underworld: Join a group of cave diving explorers as they descend into a strange and mysterious underworld through cenotes––portals to massive subterranean river systems.
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Programs for Parents and their Children
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