Too often, the abilitytowork flexibly is a perk, an extra, something for high fliers that has to be earned, or something that's on the books, but only approved in special cases.
They do not have special lessons as such but meet once a month after school - rising to once a week in their third year - to learn study skills and take on extrawork they would not be able to do in a whole-ability class, a recent example being chromatography in chemistry.