Career Integration Podcasts

These podcasts offer tips for connecting with the GISD Career Planning Model in simple ways. Meet teachers from schools across Genesee County as they describe how they integrate career information and create relevance in their academic classrooms.

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• McLaren Field Study Makes Great Connections - MP3 (9.92MB)
  Educators from 16 Genesee County schools studied how work and learning are connected at McLaren Hospital. This podcast features a dozen math, science and language arts teachers telling about job experiences that require excellent academic and personal skills.  This is what they’ll tell their students.
• From EDP Projects to Career-Relevant Connections in Literature - MP3 (8.44MB)
  Whether teaching the EDP process or reading novels, Jesse Nardizzi from Goodrich High School believes in the value of integrating careers into his courses. Courses include General English, Creative Writing, AP English and College English. In this podcast, Nardizza discusses his role in EDP completion, and he explains the activities that are part of his career-research project. He also talks about how he makes connections to many types of literature including The Great Gatsby, and he explains how he makes connections to grammar, writing theory and the lives led by the authors of various novels. Listen to hear how he helps all students understand connections to a variety of career options.
• Student Choice in Projects Motivates and Makes Real-Life Connections - MP3 (9.77MB)
  ELA teacher Nick Popadich from Grand Blanc High School says that it isn’t difficult to make career-relevant connections and the result in student motivation is worth it. Popadich says that teachers can breathe new life into what they already teach to make learning more fun. Students look at how characters’ goals impact their lives and discover skills that are needed to be successful. He also uses themes in a multi-genre project to teach literature and allows students to develop their own project ideas to link relevant choices to rigorous classroom content.
• Focus on Real World Use of Writing in Media and Websites Leads to Relevance and Quality Student Work - MP3 (10.23MB)
  John Lamarato teaches sophomore English and creative writing at Goodrich High School. In this podcast he gives several simple ideas for real-world connections to writing in media, and use of poetry websites, that lead to motivation and quality student work. This discussion also includes comments on the role of career relevance at a time of rigorous expectations and the busy profession of teachers.
• Atherton High School: Students Review for a Grammar Quiz While Practicing Employability Skills Valued by Employers - MP3 (11.02MB)
  English Teacher, Jason Garza, let us into his classroom to hear the voices of students as they prepare for a grammar quiz while practicing a key employability skill of teamwork. Not only were students able to improve the accuracy of their grammar knowledge, but they had fun and learned first hand how teamwork is important for an effective workplace. Listen as students experience and then describe what they’ve learned.
• Academic Rigor in an English Language Arts Classroom Links with Career Relevance for Students - MP3 (8.67MB)
  Atherton High School English Teacher, Jamie Turner, shares a 10th grade career project where content expectations including speaking, listening, and writing are applied along with effective critical thinking for research analysis, technology use and in-depth communicate skills. This project is extremely rigorous and students retain knowledge better while they enjoy learning. Hear how rigor and relevance fit together to make learning meaningful!
• Using Employability Skills and Cool Career Projects - MP3 (9.40MB)
  Jason Garza, an English teacher at Atherton High School, links careers with his English content expectations. He merges employability skills and students’ career plans into daily classroom experiences, and his students are more motivated to learn!
• Role-Play Conversations of Famous People - MP3 (10.48MB)
  Jeff Bean answers questions from fellow social studies teachers, Margaret Fox and Jeff Payne, about Flint Central’s innovative English and Social Studies project titled, Meeting of the Minds. In this project, students role play leaders from the past to create conversations between the various famous people they are studying. Careers, lifestyles and viewpoints are intertwined when student teams dress in costume to depict the conversations of the deceased famous people they represent.
• Teaching with Real-World Links, Projects and Employability Skills - MP3 (10.44MB)
  This podcast features Melissa Hyatt, Language Arts Teacher at Johnson High School in Mt. Morris. Hear information and advice on how ELA teachers can make meaningful connections to careers with real world links, mini projects and employability skills.
  
• Motivating Learners Through Career Connections - MP3 (6.38MB)
  This podcast features Lisa Smith, Language Arts Teacher at Linden High School. Lisa integrates careers into everything. Her ideas include a variety, from simple approaches to more comprehensive curriculum enhancements! Her students are motivated and enthusiastic toward learning!

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