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Podcast: The Reading Instruction Show
Episode: I am a Holistic Educator, NOT a Dancing Monkey
Description: To teach authentically is to teach from one’s philosophy. You align your actions with your values and your beliefs. However, as holistic educators, we’re sometimes asked to adopt philosophies to which we do not ascribe or to use methods that are not consistent with our philosophic framework. To teach from another’s philosophy is to become a dancing monkey. I am not a dancing monkey. Dancing monkeys are not good for education In this podcast, I hope to provide a sense of what holistic education is or might be and to examine how it could be use...