Emily Wiser
Emily Wiser, the Director of Wiser Words, has gained an outstanding reputation for her innovative work helping students to develop their thinking skills.
She stands firm to the principle that they always learn and understand more if they actively engage with material, work things out for themselves, are pushed to make decisions and do all this whilst enjoying themselves. In other words, she doesn’t buy into spoon feeding!
Her courses have been delivered by the Wiser Words team in hundreds of schools across the UK with exciting results and consistently glowing feedback from students. Emily trains her team of facilitators to keep to a particular methodology which encourages students to believe in themselves and to stretch themselves, take responsibility, ask questions and articulate their ideas with precision and objective justification.
Whilst designing new material and training staff, Emily still delivers many courses herself as her greatest love is being around young people.
“I want to extend my sincere gratitude to Emily for her masterly masterclass. She was utterly inspiring for all our students and especially our girls. They looked upon her as a great role model. I was delighted to read such glowing feedback comments and now have considerable evidence of the value of running such a course in the future.”
Rob Furlong, Head of Sixth Form, Thomas Telford School
“I have found Emily to be thoroughly professional, very enthusiastic and expert in her workshops. She manages to break the ice quickly, the find the correct pitch and level and to move on seamlessly to a range of interesting and challenging activities that hold the attention of the pupils for an amazingly long period of time! I have been so impressed with her flexibility and creativity in creating bespoke packages to suit the needs of our pupils, be it for a large group of G&T pupils in Y9 and Y10, or a smaller and highly charged group of Oxbridge candidates. Her feedback on every pupil at the end of the sessions shows that she has rapidly come to understand each pupil and her thoughts and suggestions have helped us in providing a more focused response to individual needs. Her openness, her engaging personality and her sense of fun have endeared her to us, both teachers and pupils alike. We will be using Wiser Words again and I would highly recommend her.”
David Ruskin, Director of Studies, Eastbourne College
Our mission and values
Wiser...
We wish to motivate young people to gain independence of mind, to think critically and analytically and to take pride in being mentally alert and logically disciplined. We hope to inspire a hunger for deeper understanding, an adventurous attitude in the exploration of ideas and an appreciation for the intrinsic value of education.
...Words
We aim to encourage young people to gain a stronger command of the language they use, to develop confidence in expressing themselves and to take pride in being articulate and well-presented.