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@piper4missouri This is a remarkably inaccurate view of homeschooling. Most parents utilize a wealth of resources to facilitate their young peoples’ education. A more accurate statement is that you are unwilling to facilitate their development at home - I believe that you are qualified.
@rebelEducator My wife’s parents were pioneers in the homeschooling movement in PA — we both just wanted to spend more time with our young people, realized that they could have more freedom and flexibility within a community of self-directed learners and still get the resources/social aspects.
@schlagetown I see that you are in Brooklyn, you should check out @recursecenter — an unschooling based programming organization with some incredible ideas about education (and run by my brother-in-law).
@schlagetown Would love to chat, simpler to do in person but feel free to check out @Cupolaacademy (I’m a co-director there). My family has been involved in the unschooling movement since the ‘70s. If you haven’t reading some Holt is always a good place to start.
@thejasonkantor I think this is an example of becoming an effective communicator - being able to express why you like something or don’t like something certainly helps in group dynamics and problem solving. We use a lot of Process Conscious dialogue with our teens, so helpful.
@thejasonkantor I run a homeschool resource center @Cupolaacademy and we have a graduation ceremony. The facilitators give Word Presents to the graduates and we have a slide show of each graduates educational path. I pick out songs that have personal meaning to our relationship.
If we really want the youth to be intrinsically motivated
To have a deep love of learning
To be self-directed and self-guided
And to have goals that they want to work hard toward
Their why has to be THEIR why
It can't be too heavily influenced by us adults
We can impart our knowledge and guide them but ultimately
They have to discover their own why - they have to come to that on their own
They need the space and freedom to discover their whys
Us adults can help them with the hows
I got a question the other day about what a parent should do if their child wants to learn something but they don't have the skills or the knowledge to teach them it
And the answer to this has helped me be so much more successful with the kids and teens I work with
It's you learn together with your child
Yes its really that simple
You don’t need a fancy degree, tons of technical training or anything else
There are obviously exceptions to this but you would be surprised at how far you can get simply by shifting your perspective
The idea that just because someone is a teacher or a supposed authority on subject so they MUST know more or be more capable is ridiculous
I have little to no technical abilities and the teen I homeschool and myself built a DC motor together completely from scratch
When he proposed the idea to me I didn't have the slighted clue on how to do that
But we figured it out together and learned how to do it with one another
We built an e-bike as well as and started working on a go-kart
We built a pizza oven amongst over things
And with each one I didn't have the slightest clue on how to do those things when we first started but him and I learned together
So by going through this process with your child you are not only bonding with them
You are showing them how to learn
You’re showing them that just because we are the adults and perceived authority figures
We don't necessarily always have all of the answers and more importantly its okay to not always have the answers
You are teaching them that we never stop learning and learning is a forever journey
That is one of the best things you could teach your child
So don't be afraid, scared or nervous
You can teach your child way more than you think