EP27: Teacher Beia: How Children Really Learn, Learning and Teaching Emotional Skills, Consequences Versus Punishment, and Advice for Parents and Teachers

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