Integral Teaching Podcast

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 …

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…

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 e…

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 …

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 tim…

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 p…

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…

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 …

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 momen…

“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 h…

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…

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 educat…

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?

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 …