EP27: Teacher Beia: How Children Really Learn, Learning and Teaching Emotional Skills, Consequences Versus Punishment, and Advice for Parents and Teachers
Update: 2021-08-04
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So happy to be bringing you my first interviewee, Teacher Beia! In this conversation, we cover:
- forest schools and the benefits of nature and play
- traditional schooling and how it can be effective
- what this pandemic is teaching us about children’s needs
- the concept of child “readiness” in education and how to recognize when a child is ready to learn something
- the importance of giving children concrete emotional tools to deal with difficult emotions
- the nature of emotions and what “validating emotions” means
- what adults can do to foster change without resorting to punishment
- the importance of modeling behavior we want to see in children
- her advice for parents and teachers (which really applies to everybody!)
To follow Teacher Beia on IG: @teacherbeia
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