Hello new educators, I think you are going to relish home schooling your amazing children. Here’s a bit of applied psychology that might help. Thread:

1. Get them to teach you something, anything. You then will model how to learn and listen, also teaching something to someone else helps them to learn it. This is great for all ages.

2. You can then move to discovering and learning together, then learning will be associated with love. Anything associated with pleasure gives a good feeling when you do it. Enjoyment needs to be a priority when learning. You learn more when you want to rather than having to.

3. Follow their interests, then connect what needs to be learnt with their interests. We learn when we can connect something new to something we already know. All new and it’s too much. All familiar and you don’t learn anything.

4. Avoid getting into a rut of the educator being the “do-er” and the learner being the “done-to”. Learning is best when it isn’t passive. Allow the pupil to impact you too, it’s dispiriting to just be “done-to”.

5. Ask them how they learn best, if you go the way they believe they can learn, they will be more likely to. They might learn better, for example, in pairs. Let them Skype with a fellow pupil.

6. Be interested in what they are doing, learn from them, if nothing else then at least you’ll get more education this way. Get siblings to teach each other too.

I’m sure you’ve all got top tips too.