In Teaching You Learn with Tiersa McQueen Transformative Principal 350

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