Sep 27, 2020
Tiersa McQueen is an unschooling mom and has a great story to
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- You can learn a lot of math through cooking.
- What about math?
- Math is everywhere.
- Homeschooling vs unschooling vs public school
- Many different styles.
- You can relax a little bit with homeschooling. Ask your child
what they want to learn. More of a family interaction.
- When you have choices, it totally changes the experiences.
- How do you know they’re progressing?
- Black holes - 4th dimension
- We live in a digital age with lots of social media. It’s never
been easier to find your tribe.
- Our educational approach is really about having
experiences.
- You have to get out of the mindset of being just your age
group.
- How are you adapting with everything being closed? Libraries,
etc?
- advice for a mind shift from being in school to home schooling?
Three biggest mind shifts needed.
- We don’t have a schedule of everything that needs to happen
every single day.
- Children do need structure. It comes from the family, not from
following a bell schedule.
- Children need a lot of sleep.
- I had a lot of unlearning that I had to do. I always had this
idea of children as people.
- The first thing I did was buy some curriculum.
- The things they were starting to learn were not coming from the
curriculum. They were coming from the things they wanted to
learn.
- How long it took for the mindshift to happen to her kids?
- Started to read John Holt
- What if we didn’t buy curriculum?
- You go as far as your interest goes.
- You have them in an environment that stimulates some
learning.
- They don’t think of things in a linear school-based
fashion.
- What her favorite tools non tech with kids? The tools of the
home. They talk to each other.
- Socially involved? Finds ways for her kids to interact with
other kids outside the home.
- Recommendations for learning more.
- How to be a transformative principal? Give kids some free time
to learn something on their own. Not every second
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