In Teaching You Learn with Tiersa McQueen Transformative Principal 350

Tiersa McQueen is an unschooling mom and has a great story to tell. Follow her insightful comments on Twitter.

• 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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