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.
General | Science | Social Studies | English | Mathematics
Mathematics
- Problem
Solving For Career Connections -
 MP3 (4.63MB)
Career research with Geometry students demonstrates how personality
traits connect with students’ career choices. Students have
time to practice their problem-solving skills in non-numerical ways!
- Career Connections from Middle School Math and Science Teachers
- MP3
(7.63MB)
New graduation requirements mean that more students than ever are going
to be asking the question, “When am I ever going to have to use
this?” So defining relevance at the middle school level
is more important than ever!
Middle school math and science teachers met to understand and define
career relevance at the middle school level. In this podcast, teachers
discuss simple methods and practical approaches that they found to connect
academic content with career relevance.
- 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.
- Davison High School: Math Project Results in Students Defending
Importance of Math Over English Courses - MP3
(7.37MB)
Math Teacher, Leslye Long, shares how trigonometry students discover
careers that use specific trig functions. Then they defend the importance
of math over the importance of English courses in a formal debate with
students from another high school. She also explains how simple career
connections in math can help motivate students who understand why learning
math is important.
Hear how rigor and relevance fit together to make learning meaningful!
Call (810) 591-4446 for more information. 
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