Check out my FREE pdf download 'The Role of the Adult at Forest School - A Guide for Helpers' - www.buymeacoffee.com/forestschoollou/extras It has some more practical strategies of working with behaviour and examples of non judgemental dialogue techniques.

Loved this one, thank you Lou! X

Some times its hard when parents are in denial about their childs behaviour

Great video Lou. It really brings to life the theories and good Forest School practice.

@ForestSchoolLou

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

This was such a good video Lou. At my setting we are seeing so many "behaviour " related issues, not just in the FS sessions that I put in place. So this will be great to put into practise. Thank you

@ForestSchoolLou

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Helen, glad it was useful to you. You might have already downloaded it, but I have a free 'The Role of the Adult at FS - guide for helpers' pdf - www.buymeacoffee.com/forestschoollou/extras It has some info in it about strategies of working with behaviour that are non judgemental (like NVC etc) which could be used outside of FS too - just in case your colleagues are interested too.

Hi, I homeschool my son (who is now 12). I am from the U.S., near the Texas-Mexican border area of South Texas. The temperatures are easily over 100 degrees fahrenheit. I volunteer teach at an outdoor nature facility in another town from me. Thee public schools take their students there on field trips and with their teachers, they go from station to station. My station s the fishing statin and habitat station. The children can be unruly sometimes, but, their teacher deal with them. So, I am hoping to do a. freed-lance nature class in the park with the children and their parents, like an hour hike with some learning activities. In order to practice, I took a small group of my relatives' kids , pre-k and Kinder, out for a nature walk today through the trails of a park, just to do a walk-through of what I would be teaching a "real " class of kids who would not be related to me. OMG! As soon as we got out there, they. just disbursed, running off the trail, jumping from one boulder to another (boulders were to sit on). I swear, they did not listen nor want to listen to one thing I had to teach nor show them. Now, I dont know about all of that communication strategy you were taking about in this scenario, , but, I felt pretty intimidated by their behavior, not knowing how I could speak to them. If they were my children, I would have been loud a stern, like a coach or something, and h would have frozen in his tracks (or never run off in the first place) However, I looked to their parents to tell them to get back on the trail and they were pretty nonchalant about it. So, at that point, I changed the entire lesson to merely following the kids with whatever they found interesting. Feels like a big fail to me, so I am very frustrated. How would I implement these strategies in such. scenario? I was worried about spiders, ticks, snakes scorpions, poison ivy., etc, which are prevalent in our area, so, I did not want them off the trail, touching, digging, exploring like that. Is this a common issue? I see the kids in videos all over th trees, digging etc, but we have too many dangerous things here, rattle snakes, coral snakes, etc to go digging off the trail. Thanks so much!

@ForestSchoolLou

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! Great that you are getting the kids outside. I think you have looked at my other video and can see that Forest School is play based and follows the learners interests, which by the sounds of it is what you did on your walk. There are lots of different ways of being outside with groups and Forest School is just one approach. I have a video which explains this more - kzread.info/dash/bejne/h6SIltiifMzLhtY.htmlsi=19eMN5FPRpd4WAJ7 I also have a few exploring play and what that means - kzread.info/dash/bejne/iXh919unoNDFeaQ.htmlsi=5ExCN4cWi5gKSFYu and finally just to mention that at Forest School, leaders would always do risk benefit assessments on the land they were using (and the activities they were doing) before working with a group, I have some videos which explain about risk too - kzread.info/head/PLM_3b0QSEkWkwEF5Zs1Y0nTZSjD5p1Kwz&si=l97KJ7UIZ2hchKGp

How to communicate the emotional and needs? That is useful and important... Pls share more.. Thank you so much

@ForestSchoolLou

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. I'll try to make a follow up video at some point. There are lots of vids about Non violent communication online that are very good.

I think "non judgemental" teaching and guidance is very important but difficult to practise as we are. The Product of convention education goal orientated and rewarding system 😅

@ForestSchoolLou

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely - I would say that this is the aspect of FS that most of the people I have trained find the most difficult. As you say - because we live in such a rewards based society. It is also a fundamental aspect to be able to facilitate a 'safe' space for people (especially more vulnerable learners) and to be able to work with their self esteem. And also to facilitate 'play' (in its purest intrinsically motivated form). So as I see it, non judgemental practices are essential skills for FS practitioners.