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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Social Studies

• From Simple Connections to Projects, Dan Hartley Finds Many Ways to Create Career Relevance for His Social Studies Students - MP3 (7.36MB)
  Find out how they’re creating a school culture of career relevance at Goodrich High School. Studying government or civics? Create a scenario that brings the careers into the classroom. Looking at economics? Create a project that allows students to view money from the perspective of their own job choices. Whether it’s making very simple connections that take very little time, or creating a career-relevant project, Dan Hartley of Goodrich High School says it makes a big difference for his students as they plan for their future.
• Economic Concepts Connected to Career and Lifestyle Choices - MP3 (6.25MB)
  Jeff Payne and Margaret Fox discuss Flint Central’s economics project where careers and lifestyle choices are linked to concepts such as opportunity costs and benefits and more! Students use a decision-making matrix to understand alternative choices. Teachers teach the important concepts while they apply them to things that make sense in student’s lives.
• 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.
• Linking Employability Skills and Real-World Applications - MP3 (5.82MB)
  This podcast features Margaret Fox, Social Studies Department Chair at Flint Central High School. Margaret has taught math, civics, economics, history, and senior humanities. She currently teaches psychology. In this interview, she describes how she integrates careers into her courses by creating links to employability skills and the real-world applications of the content that her students are learning about. Listen to this podcast to understand how simple connections can enhance classroom environment and relevance for students!
• Using Career Roles to Teach - MP3 (10.25MB)
  This podcast features Robyn Durant, Social Studies Teacher at Linden High School. Robyn gives examples in social studies to connect careers to world and U.S. events. In one instance, her students take on diplomatic career roles to select governmental plans of action and set goals around specific events in world and U.S. history. In other examples, she connects careers to class topics and using their EDP information, discusses how careers are similar to student’s interests.
• The Power of Classroom Visitors - MP3 (3.91MB)
  This podcast features Meg Walton, Social Studies Teacher at Linden High School. Meg brings guest speakers into her classroom. She feels that connecting subject matter with the “real world” helps set students’ expectations for learning the content. In this podcast she talks about how arranging guest speakers can be an easy part of every semester.

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