Integral Teaching Podcast
Teaching Into the Future explores how Integral teaching and learning practices take shape in the classroom or home environment. Hybrid teaching tips bring live education practices for parents or teachers. Host Diane Walters identifies student voice, student inquiry based lessons and teaching from emergent, holistic and integrated curriculum ideologies.
Episodes
17 episodes
Interview with Gawinoh Parker/ Skaronhyase'kó:wa. Mohawk Immersion School
Join Diane in an interview with Gawinoh Parker, Grade 3 teacher at the Skaronhyase'kó:wa. Mohawk Immersion School in the 6 Nations Territory, Canada. Find out how this Waldorf Inspired school teaches through total imm...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 16: The Most Important Thing
The most important thing in teaching Tweenagers (12-14) is found in the play of opposites. Join Diane as she talks about teaching science through subjectivity and contrasts. You might find yourself inspired.
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Episode 16
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13:13
Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 15: The Red Thread
Diane takes you on a journey of the red thread that weaves through time and space in-and-out of the classroom. Through experience and story, she weaves a web which renews past learning and enlivened present learning and delves into the future o...
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Episode 15
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15:41
Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 14: Temper the Temperaments
What is a human being? Understanding the human being leads to more questions, more developments, more possibilities....like a pattern or puzzle waiting to be linked together. This podcast discusses the 4 Greek Temperaments as a tool to ...
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Episode 14
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21:18
Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 13: Adolescence - Guiding the Passage
We must ask ourselves if we are able to guide and gift our teenagers with the means to nourish their bodies, souls and spirits so that they walk into the world with confidence, courage and equanimity; bringing to birth true idealism as a contri...
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Episode 13
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17:19
Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 12: Holding Space for the Students
Most teachers are adept at seeing the big picture. Caught up in the hectic pace of modern life, we feel compelled to immediately distinguish what is important from what is not. The assessment is an easy one to make when we are mired in the dail...
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Episode 12
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10:47
Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 11: The Curriculum Seal - Embracing Diverse Instructional Strategies
Our human striving for connection with our earth, our communities and ourselves reunites through our individual and collective knowledge and art based creative endeavor. In reaching for the stars we inspire innovation and change, emerging into ...
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Episode 11
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16:17
Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 10: The Tin Man and the Human Heart - Teaching into our Digital Age Part 2
I believe that we are all educators. We are all students. Whether we term ourselves mentors, learners, parents, or teachers, the world is on offer on every level of human understanding, place and time. We are living in a time of unprecedented c...
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Episode 10
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13:40
Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 9: The Tin Man and the Human Heart - Teaching into our Digital Age Part 1
Human intelligence far surpasses computational intelligence. The deeper capacities of genuine human intelligence are based in the light of insightful dialogue, creative approaches as a community of people with diverse interests and capabilities...
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Episode 9
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14:58
Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 8: The Classroom As A Theatre
The teacher actively practices the art of weaving potential teaching moments between themselves as teachers, and the students they teach. By doing so they have learned to improvise and be present; to love the times we live in. Students to becom...
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Episode 8
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14:37
Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 7: Letting Go and Letting Come
I believe we are not finite human beings, though our culture portrays us this way. Teachers who abandon being a ‘presenter’ and turn towards their students as the true subjects of a lesson, generate a true meeting place of souls, like the c...
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Episode 7
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13:57
Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 6: Radical Unknowing
The principle of unknowing is at work, Steiner suggests, acting as a force, through ideas. Unknowing takes on the guise of a patient teacher actively listening to the “as yet unknown” teachable moment.
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Episode 6
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14:54
Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 5: Light and Warmth
“Living thinking” are warmth and light processes in the mind and heart of the teacher. Light and warmth when actively practiced while engaging students is at the core of educational practices which have come alive. A true teacher possesses ...
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Episode 5
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11:23
Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 4: Playful, ActIve Minds
Steiner stated that active participation in the classroom calls for the dynamic interplay between the active and the passive mind. In Waldorf education, he highlights both an active and passive state of learning like a process of breathing....
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Episode 4
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19:22
Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 3: A Community of Truth
I began to explore the balance between teacher presentation and student participation in subject material in order to leave room for what I call the unfinished lesson. My lenses were Steiner’s educational philosophy, contemporary educators, the...
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Episode 3
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11:53
Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 2: Beholding Joy
How do we educate for the development of students as human beings where the emphasis is based on laughter, joy, heart based interest, and active participation as a key to unlocking all learning?
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Episode 2
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13:41
Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 1: Discovering Balance
In this introductory epsiode, host Diane Walters will go over integral teaching practices while discovering balance in the hybrid classroom. Her depth of experience brings inspiration to teachers as well as homeschooling parents.
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Episode 1
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21:44
