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Ep 17: Leaving the School System: Why a Former Teacher Created a Forest School and Chose Home Education - with guest, Lewis
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Today we’re lucky enough to be joined by Lewis — a former teacher turned home-educating parent who now runs an alternative education space nestled among the trees.
Find Lewis on instagram - @theforestschoolpodcast
Check out the Forest School Podcast on Spotify
Note: I have added time stamps for the questions we asked but they’re not necessarily that helpful because, like all the best conversations, it branched off and flowed in many different ways!
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1. Ep 17: Leaving the School System: Why a Former Teacher Created a Forest School and Chose Home Education - with guest, Lewis (00:00:00)
2. Intro (00:00:40)
3. How are you?! (00:01:30)
4. How was your school experience when you were a kid? (00:04:30)
5. What made you want to become a teacher and approach to teaching? (00:09:18)
6. What age did you teach? (00:12:16)
7. What were the best and worst bits of teaching? (00:12:52)
8. Experience with Ofsted (00:28:36)
9. Listener Question: What was it that made you realize you couldn’t make a change from the inside and that you needed to move away from the system and what was your most magical moment of incidental learning? (00:32:13)
10. Do you think the local authorities involvement impacts how we feel pressure to teach numeracy and literacy and how important are they?! (00:37:55)
11. How do we teach maths and literacy outdoors/do we need to? (00:49:38)
12. Why did you decide to home educate your children? (00:55:04)
13. How long have you been a forest school leader? (00:56:11)
14. How many people run and attend the forest school? (00:57:24)
15. Do your kids attend your forest school? (00:58:16)
16. How do you approach your home education? (00:58:47)
17. Why should we spend more time outdoors? (01:07:47)
18. Sea vs forest (01:12:13)
19. What is one outdoor activity you secretly dislike but pretend to enjoy? (01:13:53)
20. Biotensegrity Tangent! (01:14:42)
21. Is there anything kids can learn outside better than in a classroom? (01:18:55)
22. Do you have a less hierarchical approach than in school? (01:22:00)
23. How do you approach assessment or progress tracking in a forest school setting/How do you know they’re progressing well? (01:23:00)
24. What are the best provisions to keep in your garden to promote learning? (01:28:45)
25. If you could redesign the whole education system, what would it look like? (01:30:18)
26. Do you have any tips or advice for families new to or in home education? (01:33:02)
27. Do you have any tips or advice for families new to or in home education? (01:33:02)
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