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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.
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Send us a Text Message. 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 immersion into traditional Indigenous Wisdom. Support the Show.…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 of learning to deepen your teaching practice. Support the Show.…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 greater insight for teachers and parents in order to develop a heightened sensitivity to c…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 contribution to this world. Support the Show.…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 daily grind of our classrooms. and school life or in our home environment if you are a…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 a new consciousness of ourselves and our world. Creativity and our learning is a g…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 change and if we do not want to be swept off our feet or simply led by algorithms, …
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Send us a Text Message. 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. It is to be found when we engage and collaborate with others on any level, at an…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 become active creators with imagination, student voice or preferred experiences with en…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 crossing point of a lemniscate. Then there is a possibility to begin to relate to a liv…
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Send us a Text Message. “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 a capacity for connectedness through the very heart and spirit of the teaching profess…
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Send us a Text Message. 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. “When the world is passive, we become active. When the world is active, we become pas…
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Send us a Text Message. 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, theorists and futurists. My experience as a teacher showed me the longings of both te…
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