Latest Instructors Podcast Episodes
How to make more money as an instructor in 2024
Group Fitness Real Talk - January 18, 2024 08:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsWe ALL live in hope that 2024 will be the year that instructor pay improves. But… this podcast is called group fitness Real Talk, and the real talk is that any big shifts - not matter how well deserved - don’t seem very likely. So how exactly can you make more money as an Instructor in 2024? ...
S6 E1: Togetherness is Coming Back
Fearless Self-Love - November 13, 2023 22:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSteph Plant and I chat about grief, collective and individual healing, the power of song, and our call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Listen in for deep wisdom from this musician and Montessori teacher as she reminds of our our true nature and our capacity to live full and beautiful lives. (Photo of S...
Optimizing Your Resume and LinkedIn Profile for Career Success
Connect FCS ED - May 10, 2023 10:00 - 9 minutes• First, let’s talk about CTSOs or Career and Technical Student Organizations. These groups provide students with opportunities to develop leadership and technical skills that can be applied in their future careers. As an advisor of a CTSO, you’ve been instrumental in guiding students toward th...
Closing Down Your FCS Classroom: Inventory, Maintenance, Communication, Storage, Surplus, and Grants.
Connect FCS ED - May 03, 2023 10:00 - 19 minutes• Let's start with closing down your FCS lab/classroom. It's important to begin with inventory, taking stock of all your equipment, tools, and supplies. This will help you determine what needs to be repaired, replaced, or ordered for the upcoming school year. Additionally, proper maintenance and...
Honoring Your Native Language with Prof. Michel DeGraff
Chalk Radio - April 18, 2023 09:00 - 25 minutesWe first interviewed Professor Michel DeGraff back in season 1; he now returns for another episode, diving deeper into issues of culture and identity. He talks about his childhood in Haiti, where he was punished at school for speaking his own mother tongue, and where he was taught by his teacher...
Integrating vocabulary tiers in the FCS classroom
Connect FCS ED - April 12, 2023 10:00 - 9 minutesTo start off, I am going to give you a brief overview of what vocabulary tiers are and why they're important in the Family and Consumers Sciences classroom. Tier 1 words are the most common words used in everyday conversations. They are words that students are likely to already know, such a...
Sustainability Education Across Learning Environments with Dr. Liz Potter-Nelson and Sarah Meyers
Chalk Radio - April 05, 2023 09:00 - 15 minutesMany people associate the word “sustainability” with a few specific activities such as composting or recycling. Our guests for this episode, Dr. Liz Potter-Nelson and Sarah Meyers, point out that sustainability is actually much broader, encompassing all the future-oriented practices that promote...
Possibility thinking with Sandra Adams, PhD.
Connect FCS ED - March 22, 2023 11:00 - 28 minutes• Will you describe your journey with career and technical education? • Do you have any new exciting projects you are working on? • What is your vision for CTE in the next decade wtih your new role as VP for the ACTE Admin Division? • What are the names of the 3 books you have either co-auth...
Teaching Teachers with Dr. Summer Morrill
Chalk Radio - March 22, 2023 09:00 - 18 minutesNobody comes into this world already knowing how to teach—and most students arrive at undergraduate or graduate programs without any teaching experience at all. For those who are selected to be teaching assistants, the prospect of facing a classroom of students for the first time can be terrifyi...
Elevate FCS with Toni Wiese
Connect FCS ED - March 15, 2023 10:00 - 18 minutes• Tell me about the over purpose of the campaign? The Elevate FCS campaign is a nationwide effort to raise awareness and recognition for the field of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) and the professionals who work in it. The campaign aims to showcase the diverse career opportunities available ...
Embracing AI in FCS Education
Connect FCS ED - March 08, 2023 11:00 - 11 minutes• AI is changing the way we live, work, and learn, and as educators, it's our job to prepare our students for this rapidly changing world. By incorporating AI into the FCS classroom, we can help our students develop 21st-century skills, like problem-solving, critical thinking, and creativity. W...
Communication is the Whole Game with Paige Bright & Prof. Haynes Miller
Chalk Radio - March 08, 2023 10:00 - 19 minutesIn this episode we meet Haynes Miller, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, who in his 35+ years of active teaching at MIT has done much to shape the institute’s math curriculum. Prof. Miller’s special focus is algebraic topology, but his teaching has encompassed a wide range of other topics from ...
why learning comes first, technology second
Connect FCS ED - March 01, 2023 11:00 - 7 minutes• Technology has become an essential part of our daily lives, and it's no different in the classroom. It has the potential to enhance student learning and engagement, but it's important to remember that technology is just a tool, and it's the teaching strategies that come first. As Family and C...
Pre & Postnatal Fitness - What Every Instructor Should Know
Group Fitness Real Talk - February 28, 2023 14:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsAs a GX Instructor, you’ve undoubtedly had pre and postnatal people in your classes. This is why it's important to have a solid foundational knowledge in how to provide these members with a safe and effective workout. In this episode, Will speaks to Danielle Spangler, an industry expert on pr...
The Relevance of FCS Education in Public K-12 Education
Connect FCS ED - February 22, 2023 11:00 - 11 minutes• FCS education prepares students for adulthood by teaching them how to make informed decisions about important life events, such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement, as well as how to manage their finances, maintain their health, and develop positive relationships with others • Contribut...
Opening Computer Science to Everyone with Chancellor Eric Grimson
Chalk Radio - February 22, 2023 10:00 - 16 minutesEric Grimson is MIT’s chancellor for academic advancement and interim vice president for Open Learning; he’s also a longstanding professor of computer science and medical engineering. In this episode, Prof. Grimson shares his thoughts on in-person and online education. We learn that he rehearses...
Exploring the Innovations and Impact of Career and Technical Education (CTE): Navigating the future with CTSO leadership
Connect FCS ED - February 15, 2023 11:00 - 9 minutes• I will share and discuss on 3 topics supporting CTE programs in preparing students for careers in various fields of work. Latest Trends in CTE: The Importance of Keeping CTE Programs Relevant: The Role of Career and Technical Education Student Leadership Organizations and the benefits of p...
The Importance of Celebrating Career and Technical Education Month
Connect FCS ED - February 08, 2023 11:00 - 7 minutes• Every February, the CTE community comes together to recognize the achievements and impact of CTE programs and to raise awareness about their role in preparing students for college and career success. (00:30) • CTE Month provides an opportunity for individuals and organizations to show thei...
Seeing Green with Drs. Sandland and Chazot
Chalk Radio - February 08, 2023 10:00 - 17 minutesMIT has long been an innovator in online education. For even longer—for its whole history, in fact—it has championed hands-on learning. These two emphases may seem incompatible, but the MICRO initiative draws on both in an effort to increase diversity within the field of materials science. Dr. J...
How to market your FCS CTE classes
Connect FCS ED - February 01, 2023 11:00 - 9 minutes• (00:31) Did you know that February is known for CTE month? CTE, meaning career and technical education, so that every single February, the CTE community celebrates CTE month to raise awareness of the role that CTE has in reading learners for college and career success. • (1:50) Tip numbe...
Well-being is the Goal with Prof. Frank Schilbach
Chalk Radio - January 25, 2023 10:00 - 16 minutesDo you always make the best possible choices, even when you’re stressed or short on sleep? The ideally rational person (“Homo economicus”) assumed by conventional economics always acts in ways that are materially advantageous to them. But Associate Professor Frank Schilbach seeks in his research...
What Instructors NEED To Know About Social Media
Group Fitness Real Talk - January 25, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsToday on the podcast, I'm talking with Rachel Holmes about all the things Instructors NEED to know about showing up on social media in 2023. Rachel is both a fixture in the UK fitness circuit and also smashing it on social media right now, so I really wanted to pick her brain and get her top tip...
The Greatest Existential Threat with Prof. Robert Redwine and Dr. Jim Walsh
Chalk Radio - January 11, 2023 10:00 - 15 minutesTo most people, especially those who are too young to remember the Cold War, the possibility of nuclear Armageddon may seem so remote as not to be worth contemplating. But Prof. Bob Redwine and Jim Walsh, two of the instructors behind MIT’s Nuclear Weapons Education Project (NWEP), warn that it ...
How To Package Your Proposition with Kelly Coulter
Group Fitness Real Talk - December 13, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsToday on the podcast, I'm back with repeat guest, Kelly Coulter. Last time, Kelly came on to talk about the three biggest business building mistakes that Instructors make when they start out teaching online. If you haven’t heard that episode yet, be sure to give it a listen (you can find that he...
The Science Behind Creating A Killer Playlist
Group Fitness Real Talk - November 30, 2022 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsThis is one of those episodes where we’re going to keep it REAL and hit you right up front. We think that a lot of Instructors listening to this podcast have entirely the wrong idea about rights-included music. We get it! You like to use the music that you hear on the radio in your classes. Bu...
Pump No More? The New Rules for Strength Classes
Group Fitness Real Talk - November 17, 2022 09:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsProgramming real strength development training in a group fitness setting has always been a challenge. But if you can do it well, it can be the biggest opportunity for you as a group fitness instructor to attract a broad audience of people to your classes. The question is, how exactly do you ach...
EP 103 Dr. Katy Blatnick-Gagne, V.P. FCS Division at ACTE
Connect FCS ED - October 26, 2022 10:00 - 22 minutes• My mom was a Family and Consumer Scientist or Home Economist, as she still likes to refer to it for 27 years in Southwest Colorado, and out of three children, I was the only one that followed my parents in the footsteps of becoming an educator (4:29) • Leadership has always been something I'v...
Ep 102 Baker 'Kristin Hoffman' Bettie
Connect FCS ED - October 19, 2022 10:00 - 22 minutes• I am a trained chef. I did go to culinary school, and I've worked at restaurants and worked as a private chef, but for the last 11 years, I've been creating content on my Baker Bettie website as an educational baking content creator. I started Baker Bettie as a food blog back in 2011. You know...
Menopause and Fitness: What No One Tells You with Tracy Minnoch
Group Fitness Real Talk - October 18, 2022 08:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsHere at SH1FT Fitness, we like to make sure we are giving our instructors what they want in terms of education, product, as well as the topics they want to hear about on this podcast. We recently conducted a global instructor survey and were really stunned by the number of instructors who wanted...
Ep 101 Sharon Davis of The Home Baking Association
Connect FCS ED - October 12, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes• I have a real history now with family consumer sciences, I actually started out as a home economist with what they call a vocational education degree. Now it's called Career and Tech. So that degree from Iowa State, and my continuing ed is with Kansas State University and the American Institut...