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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Science

• 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.
• Crime Scene Investigation in Physics! - MP3 (5.90MB)
  Students today are turned on to CSI careers, so connecting math and science with it makes sense. Swartz Creek High School teacher Julie Bennett asked crash scene investigators from the police department to demonstrate the connections between physics and criminal prosecutions, for vehicle crashes. Math and science is necessary in law enforcement careers. Students also hear about the need for strong writing and civics knowledge. Listen to portions of a live classroom presentation as connections are made between academics and the real world.
• Electromagnetic Spectrum Lessons are Morphed Into a Career Pathways Project - MP3 (6.39MB)
  How are gamma rays useful in people’s lives? Students in Meredith Dorow’s class know the answer to this question and they also understand how waves from the electromagnetic spectrum are useful in specific career pathways. Dorow has created her second career pathways project for content she already teaches in her physical science classroom. The benefit, she says, is they’re easy to create, and they result in increased student interest and in some cases, better test scores. Another benefit Dorow points out is that students see the EDP process as relevant too when they learn about new careers!
• Teaching with Real Life Scenarios and Simple Discussions - MP3 (7.37MB)
  This podcast features Brooke Davis, Science Teacher at Davison High School. Brooke describes how to teach students using real-life scenarios as well as other methods that include simple discussions that help students understand careers and educational possibilities for careers.
  
• Career Skills and Area Jobs - MP3 (7.33MB)
  This podcast features Sylean Harris, a science teacher at Flint Northern Commencement Academy. Sylean teaches biology, zoology and botany. In this podcast she talks about how she connects to careers and career skills with her botany students. She makes direct connections between her content and area jobs where that information is needed. She also takes her students on field trips to make connections and uses projects to enhance students’ employability skills.
• Answering the question, "Why do I need this class?" - MP3 (6.43MB)
  This podcast features Joe Grigas, Science Teacher at Lake Fenton High School. Hear how Joe heads off the question, “Why do I need this class?” using simple methods in his classroom.
• Changing a Learning Unit into A Career Experience - MP3 (8.18MB)
  This podcast features Meredith Dorow, Science Teacher, Swartz Creek High School. Meredith created a project where students develop an action plan for their role in an earthquake event from the perspective of their own career pathway. She talks about how she got started in career integration and students’ reactions to the project.
• Integrating Realisic Ideas About Careers - MP3 (7.42MB)
  This podcast features Heather Gannon, Science Teacher, Mt. Morris High School. Heather wants her students to think more realistically about careers. She describes several integration methods and also gives project ideas for genetics, ecology or anatomy.

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