Academic Excellence is not “just another tutoring college”

“We are an Academic learning centre that encourages each student to flourish confidently in achieving their intellectual and emotional potential, a life skill that expands well-beyond the scope of the HSC,” founder, Alida Markovics says.

Academi c Excellence is an established, scholastic institution with over 30 years of experience, that successfully guides students through primary school, up until the final HSC Exam.

For our Primary school students, Academic Excellence offers personalised literacy and numeracy programs, social skill development and play therapy, as well as dyslexia specialist services. For our high school students, these services extend to also include regular study skill workshops, group-style seminars and exam preparation for both Year 11 and Year 12.

As the centre of excellence, Academic Excellence endorses positive mindfulness in its approach to education, placing an emphasis on the emotional and physical wellbeing of each child. This, in turn, cultivates a love for learning and desire to achieve a personal best within each student.

Since it opened 30 years ago, hundreds of thousands of people from different walks of life have come to the Sydney Jewish Museum to bear witness to the testimony of Holocaust survivors, and the many stories of courage, endurance and resilience they reveal.

The Museum’s latest immersi ve exh ibition, Reverberations: A future for memory, shines a light on the humanity and life experiences of 43 Holocaust survivors who have shared their stories at the museum in recent years. This is not an exhibition focussed on the events of the Holocaust – it’s about the people who experienced it – and the painful decision they make each time they choose to relive their unimaginable loss for the betterment of humanity.

A HIGH-TECH INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE

The exhibition takes you on a journey through a high-definition gallery of recorded footage, where you’ll encounter Holocaust survivors’ thought-provoking answers to questions like:

• Why do survivors choose to share their experiences?

• Is it difficult to talk about what happened to them?

• Can they forgive? Was there justice?

• What is their responsibility to those who were murdered?

You’ll be ab le to immerse yourself in conversation with digitised versions of three Holocaust survivors, including the late Eddie Jaku, which use cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence technology to respond directly to any question they ask.

You’ll leave having h ad a g limpse into how future generations will engage with Holocaust survivor testimony, for when the time comes that there are sadly no more survivors alive to tell their own stories.

“Our community of Holocaust survivors live with the constant and everlasting trauma of what they went through,” says the exhibition’s Curator Shannon Biederman.

“Telling their stories to visitors, especially children, is often very painful but survivors choose to endure this pain in the hope that listeners will learn lessons and stand up for peace, kindness and humanity.

Reverberations showcases some of the innovations we are introducing at the museum, to ensure that we can continue to impact future generations with real stories of Holocaust survivors.

This exhibition will change the way that you think about history.”

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Sydney Jewish Museum

148 DARLINGHURST RD, DARLINGHURST www.sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au

Throughout Alida’s ex pansive years in education, she understands that mainstream schooling is not for everyone. As such, Alida provides home-schooling services, which follow the mandatory requirements of the NSW school curriculum. This program ensures that the emotional wellbeing and specific academic needs of students are prioritised.

The dyna mic and multifaceted nature of Academic Excellence is also seen through Markovic’s new IB tutoring services and adult/retiree philosophy classes. By offering tutoring services for both the HSC and IB examinations, Academic Excellence is able to provide an all rounded and dynamic experience for its students. By extension, Academic Excellence’s newfound philosophy classes allow people of older age groups to engage with exciting ideas, expand their knowledge and perhaps even challenge their existing assumptions about the world we live in.

“Alida is so much more than a tutor. She is able to apply this knowledge to help her students, so that they are learning, efficiently, the skills required to lead them to their personal best HSC results,” parent Joanna McNiven says.

“We b eli eve that a devoted tutor-student relationship will provide a constant avenue for adolescent emotional support and intellectual guidance.” Markovics says.

Academic Exce llence prides itself on strong relationships based on trust, confidence and mutual understanding with each student. As a result, Alida and her tutoring firm are able to purposefully fulfil their primary objective: to educate, to motivate, to engage, to facilitate and to inspire.