Hi, I'm Landee
Kieschnick with iCEV.
And thank you for
joining us for "Chopped!
Using iCEV to Teach
Culinary Arts."
We are excited to have
Connie Hall with us.
And, Connie, if
you could just tell
a little bit about yourself and
the school that you teach at.
I teach in the
state of New Mexico.
The school district
is known as Los Lunas.
And my specific school
is Valencia High School.
We sit outside the city limits.
We have just short of 1,000
students in the student body.
So this is using the iCEV
program for culinary arts.
It's a very supportive and
good program to use on that.
Let's see.
So on my table of
contents here, the things
we're going to touch
on today is, first,
just utilizing the provided
materials and our guideline
for culinary arts, one
of my favorite features
to provide the supported
learning for our students,
my best practice
strategy, and then
some other miscellaneous
advice for any colleagues
within the culinary arts, and
then just a few additional tips
at the end to kind of
wrap it up with a summary.
So with using the toolkit
that's within the iCEV program,
there are lesson plans
that are already in there,
and they are magnificent.
They range anywhere from
between four to five pages.
They are very specific in
the common core standards
they support and help you
achieve, anywhere from, like,
writing to understanding
other things.
They have all the strategies
outlined in there for you.
So it looks very professional
and nice if you're
being observed or turning it
in to your administration.
They are very well written
and easy to follow.
So under that one, you go
through the lesson plan.
It correlates to the
PowerPoint that's
there, because when you open up
the website, you go in and pick
your lesson plan, what your
topic is that you're on.
There is a video,
and with that video,
there is a PowerPoint
that supports it.
They're very well matched up.
And so in this PowerPoint,
if you are the type of person
or your classroom requires that
you print it, it's printable.
They've got it in the
printable section.
If not, if you've
got a projector,
you can project the
PowerPoint up on there
and follow through with it.
But best of all, if you're
going to be using the video,
you don't want to be
projecting the PowerPoint.
So at that point,
you can print it
if you want your students
to have it to make notes on.
Or if your students
have a computer
with them or
computer capability,
they can open it up
and follow it along.
They can download a lesson,
and it goes step by step.
So then you look farther
into the lesson plan,
and it will tell you
what you're achieving
and which slide you're going
to use to achieve that.
So the lesson plan is so
well written and laid out.
It's much like an outline,
very easy to follow.
So even if you've
got to leave it
for another colleague
or a substitute,
it's really easy to leave
them there and highlight it.
And it's easy for them to
follow and understand as long
as they've got the
technology in there
at their disposal to use it.
And they even give you,
like, the time frame.
So you already know
how long your class is
or how much time you have.
They'll give you an
idea on your time frame
on that lesson plan too.
So they're very
well written out.
There is a section in there
that gives you online links.
They're hot links that you can
go in and get to websites that
support the teaching
and the knowledge
that you're doing
through that lesson.
Each one-- each
lesson plan has what's
called Career Connections.
It's also a video.
You go up into the video
dropdown and select it.
And that one is really
well planned and just very
real to life, I guess,
would be the right word
to use for that for
the students to see.
They actually interview people
that have worked in that career
and in those particular
aspects, and they talk
about certain things in there.
So some of the people
will tell you--
listening to different
ones, they're very honest.
They'll tell you don't
do this if you're not
a determined person, if
you're not hardworking.
It takes a lot of work.
They're very open and
honest with the students,
but provide them with
knowledge of what
it's going to take to be
successful in a culinary class.
So if you're a remote
learning, or maybe you're
in a rural setting, and you
don't have a lot of access
to a big commercial
kitchen, these
shed some light for
those kind of students
that you can get in there and
do the Career Connections.
And there's a activity
and questions,
what they have to think
about, like what did they say,
or what do they say about
education in this one,
and so forth.
And so there are
questions that drive
the thinking for the student.
So that's so important to use.
That's a good aspect,
because we are a career
technical education program.
And so at this point,
you are teaching
them the career and the
technical part of it
as well as the fun that they
get to do with the cooking.
So the format is
so user-friendly
in this whole program.
It's laid out the same way.
So you know what to expect every
time you open up a lesson plan.
You go in.
There's the video
at the top that
is supported by the PowerPoint.
And so then under
the video, you've
got a section called Printable.
You hit that.
It's a dropdown.
It opens up into
everything that's
available that's printable.
And that is anywhere,
from your PowerPoint
to a list of activities that
you can take the students
through that correlate with
the video and the PowerPoint
to a list of projects, like
your lab exercises that you can
do in the kitchen that connect
directly with the lesson
you're teaching.
There are student handouts
where they can make notes.
There are vocabulary
pages where they
can learn the vocabulary that's
being used for this lesson
plan.
So it's all wonderful
if you like to print.
If you're not-- if you're
environmental-conscious
and you don't like to
do all that printing,
then there is another
section under that
called the interactive.
You can go in there.
And if the students
have computer access,
they can complete those forms
while they're on a computer.
They can open it up and
use it with the videos.
And then also in the interactive
are your assessments.
So the students can go right in
there and do their assessments,
and they don't have to wait
for the teacher to grade
or to wait for a response.
They know they're instant
grading right then.
And I'll touch base
more, but that's
also if you've got
someone with modifications
or you've got an English
language learner,
you're capable of
allowing them to access it
more than once if they need to.
And you can do that
kind of privately.
The rest of the
class doesn't realize
that you're supporting
them that way,
but it's great support
to be able to give
those students that additional
time to work if you need to.
And so then your
assessments, you can kind of
touch on the summative
and the formative,
because the summative
assessments can
come through the activities
and projects you're doing.
There's a rubric that's
also included in there,
and the rubric's wonderful.
You can use that
as far as, like,
grading and estimating
the kids' capability
when they're doing the
projects and activities.
It's easily guided,
so that way you
can give them points on that.
There comes your
summative assessments
that way to make sure
they're understanding,
they're connecting
their reading and videos
to their actual lab work.
And then of course you've got
your formative assessment,
because you've got the
assessment with each section.
And most of the assessments
are five questions.
Maybe some are up as far as 10.
They're not a lot of
time-consuming or stressful
for the students.
It just gets to the
point, to the technology
that they've been learning
and using and connecting it.
So some of my favorite
features-- and on the right
here, you'll see that
I've got some screenshots.
The top one here
is what the video
looks like when it comes up.
There's the video there.
You can see off to the side,
there are the different slides.
And you can go down.
You can guide and
go back and forth.
So you don't have to follow
the video step by step,
although they lay
it out perfect.
But if you needed to
rearrange, you can.
You can go down to the
different parts of the slides
and go to the part you want.
The second on the right side,
this on the bottom corner
there is a screenshot of
one of the forms there.
That's one of the
student notes where
you can see they can
fill in the forms
and learn the terminology as
they're going along and working
on the video.
Gives them something
to study or look at
before they take
the assessments.
So with that said, my favorite
is probably the video.
That is the most supportive.
You don't have to reinvent
the wheel at this point.
You don't have to sit down
and make your own PowerPoint.
You don't have to
set out your lecture.
You can use this to back it up.
Being video, it gives
you the capability
to stop and discuss
it with the students,
ask questions, ask them
if they have questions.
And it takes a lot of
work off of the teacher.
It's already there
and very easy,
and it's the information
you need for your students.
It's up to date.
It's very informative.
And these are valuable whether
you're sitting in a classroom
face to face, or, in our
uncertain world now of distance
learning, these videos are
valuable in either setting,
either environment, because
when you're face to face, again,
it can be your lecture.
You can interact with it.
You can stop it and
discuss with the students,
make sure they're
understanding it.
And then of course,
the best part of that
is if we go to
distance learning,
you're still providing that
class and that kind of quote
unquote "lecture" to them.
The kids can go through
and control their lecture.
They can listen to what they
want, write what they need to,
and stop it.
So it gives a great value
and power to the students
to be able to hear their
lecture and maybe repeat it
as many times as they need.
Maybe some students don't get
it the first time through.
It gives great power to
them to go back and refer
to it and an easy way to study.
So yeah, like I said, it
can guide the student notes.
If you're classroom face to face
and you like to print things,
you can give them the
PowerPoint to make the notes on.
And that's great
support to the students.
It gives them a lot of control.
The other nice feature
of this is, for example,
in my particular classroom,
we have one on one--
each student has
their own laptop.
So if you've got a student
that's absent or maybe
has to be out for
a family emergency,
if you stay in communication
through email or let them know,
they can still access
and do their homework
when you're utilizing
a program like this.
They can get on and do it
at home and stay caught up,
and then they're not in
that oh my goodness, I gotta
catch up now when I get back.
And this is one of the
favorite features that I like.
Sometimes even if
I'm not using it,
if I got someone that's
got to travel or be out,
if I can find
something similar, this
is what I will assign
just to give that student
that opportunity
to not fall behind
while they're out of class and
doing what they need to do.
So another one we were
going to talk about
was the successful strategy.
And just what I
touched on earlier,
the interactive section
of the assignments
and the assessments, the
teacher has the capability
of going in and selecting
multiple attempts.
So it has a little
dropdown window,
and it'll say
number of attempts.
You know, you can use one
for your general population.
If you've got students
with modifications,
you can allow them two or
three attempts if they need it,
or, for example, you have
an English language learning
student, this will maybe help
them strengthen their ability
to grasp the English language.
And then not only that.
In these kind of
classes, they are also
learning technical terminology,
which they're already
challenged to learn in English,
the new language of English.
But now we're adding
to that with all
this technical terminology.
And they start to
kind of get lost.
So in this case, they can go
back in and kind of practice
that on their own if
they're a driven student
and they want to improve that.
This gives them the chance.
And so you give them, like,
multiple attempts or something
where they can go
in and work with it.
It helps increase their
language, their English ability
as well as learning the
technical terminology, which
makes them a more valuable
and employable adult
once we get them
through the education,
their secondary education.
And then that just
kind of helps--
it also alleviate some of
the responsibility and work
on the teacher where she
can focus on other things--
he or she.
And you don't have to
completely rewrite or reinvent
the wheel to be able
to make education
and make the learning a
little better for the students
with accommodations or the
English language learner.
It makes it a lot more
user-friendly for the teacher
and supports them well.
Again, using this too,
like I mentioned earlier,
it helps us to
achieve our grading.
The students see their score
right there upon completion.
It'll show them
the correct answer.
They know which
one they got wrong.
And again, if you're
going to have,
like, a final or you have the
bigger assessment at the end,
they can study that and
learn and be prepared
to move on and add to that.
And we all know that
the grading gets
to be a challenge
at certain times
and certain points of
the year because we've
got a lot of other
administrative things going on.
So just for the
students to see that,
and it's kind of like their
reward, their understanding,
because a lot of students are
very much into their grades.
So this really lends
and helps for them
to be able to see their
points right away.
They do like it.
Just some additional
advice as far as for users,
you've got the activities and
the projects on the right.
And when I've gone
through, I can't
say that I use 100% of them in
the order that they're there,
but it gives me the power
to pick and choose and maybe
supplement things.
Maybe it provides an idea that
I'd never thought of or maybe
a question that I would
have never came up with
or, oh, that's a good way to
look at that, a different way
to teach.
And there may be some that
don't appeal to you at all.
There's nothing wrong with that.
I would go through and just--
and again, when you're
on the lesson plan,
you can highlight the
parts that you want.
If you print it out,
you can highlight
the part you're going to do and
eliminate what you don't need.
Just make it fit your
goals for your curriculum
and what you want to
achieve with your students.
And make your adjustments
as you need, you know?
And I've used the
word term frequently,
there's no need to
reinvent the wheel.
There is so much support in this
and available material on here
to just manipulate it and make
it fit your needs and plans.
And if you're a
printer, you know,
if you like to print and
all that, that's fantastic.
There are things in there
to print that support you
and your students.
If you've got the
technology available
and you can go to computers,
it works with both realms,
both environments.
It is very supportive
in either one.
And again, like I
spoke earlier, you
can adjust the
forms or the access
for the students
with modifications.
And by adjusting the
forms, what I mean is maybe
you have one that's
needing to learn.
And maybe you've got some
of the difficult ones.
Maybe you go ahead and fill
in those answers for them
so they can look at it more,
and you don't necessarily
need them to learn that.
Let them learn.
Base it on their
modifications that they need,
or maybe make it easier for
an English language learner
to spell it out and
help them understand it
and have them focus instead of
worrying about taking notes.
Another thing, like I
mentioned a minute ago,
the activities or projects
can be assigned even
for extra credit if you're
a teacher that allows that.
There's an easy task
to assign and give
to the student without
a lot of energy and time
on your part to have to recreate
or come up with something.
You can go in there
and select that.
Or, like I mentioned
before, if you've
got a student that's out, maybe
they've got a family emergency,
maybe they've
gotten sick and they
can't come back in
to the classroom,
assign the activities or
projects according to them
so they can kind of stay up.
Maybe they're
missing out on some
of the stuff you're doing in the
kitchen and things like that,
but you can give them
something too so they're not
missing out on their education.
They're also not totally
behind when they come back.
They've missed a
week or two of--
and you're just moving on.
So these become very
supportive even in that,
even if it's not your
whole, total lesson plan.
It can support you when
you've got the absent students
and you need to keep supporting
them and their learning.
Additional tips
and tricks-- so I
put a lot of the visuals
along with it to help.
So the vocabulary
words, that's one
of the favorite ones on there.
I told you-- because
it's all printed out.
It's like someone took
wonderful notes for you.
And so now those students can
study this and understand.
And maybe if they would
get the wrong definition,
they may go on
thinking that way.
These are prepared with
the proper definition.
They can study.
They can learn the right
terminology, the right spelling
and so forth.
The other one on the top that I
have is the Career Connections.
Like I told you, it demonstrates
the professionalism.
The students get to
experience a real-life advice.
And then, again,
the questions will
have them either summarize
the skills, the career
expectations.
The questions might be like,
what kind of personality
do you need to have to do this?
They have just different
varying questions
that they can answer on there.
And they're short videos,
so the kids don't burn out
or tune out.
They're, like, I think under
5 minutes, somewhere right
around that.
So it's very easy.
And it's just someone talking.
It's very easy for
them to understand.
It's not high with technology
and vocabulary words.
It's just somebody
being a real person
and giving them an
idea, a realistic idea,
because some of them--
I've watched a few
of them myself.
And someone will tell you,
it's a very tough job.
Be careful how you
select it, and here's
what you need to consider.
So I like that aspect that they
give a real-life summary of it.
And like I've said
before, the videos
and the interactive
assignments are good face
to face or distance learning.
They are applicable either
way and very supportive.
It's just amazing the
support and just the ease
and the user-friendliness
that it brings to your world.
And it takes a lot
of stress off of you.
The vocabulary-- so
when you're in there,
I don't think I've
spoke about that
where I say to make
the vocabulary handout
accessible to the students.
So when you go into
these where you
see the printable and
the interactive part,
over to the right-hand
side are little boxes
where you can put check marks.
And it's titled Give
Access to Student.
So you can control what
they can see and access.
And if you don't select
the check mark on there,
then the student won't be
able to open it and see it.
You see everything on your side.
So it's very important to
remember to do that part.
Don't assign something
to the students
that you haven't
given them access to.
And I probably
should have mentioned
that at the beginning, because
that's kind of the vital point.
When you're coming
through and doing things,
you want to make sure
it's to the side.
And then they won't
see all the other stuff
if you don't give them access.
So one of your kind
of rules of thumb
when you're creating these and
what they're getting access
is you always want to
make sure they have access
to the vocabulary handout.
And that way, they
can open it up.
Even if they don't print, they
can pull it up on their screen
and study and use it that way.
And again, they're very
well-written notes and gives
the students the proper
information they need
to know for the terminology.
And so I think I've
touched on all of those.
So just kind of as a summary
as far as this website
and the staff that
I've encountered
and my experience with it is the
website is very user-friendly.
It's easy to see the
buttons you need to push
and where you need to go.
It's the same format.
The lesson plan's
always up at the top.
You've got the view
that you come in.
You've got the video
and all the slides.
And they're numbered.
And then right below
that is your printable.
And right below
that is interactive.
And you hit them.
They open up, and that part
changes based on the lesson.
But the format is the same.
It's not, like, a
sneaky surprise.
Everything's laid out the same.
You become familiar with it.
You can breeze through it.
I've always received
incredible support
from the staff from iCEV.
They're always there.
They're quick to respond to you.
They're quick to
solve your problems.
So it's amazing when you're
stressed out and working.
You know you've got
good support staff,
and they take good care of you.
The information there
is very applicable.
And what I mean by that
is it's up to date.
It's got the proper-- you
know, more modern nutrition
information is one of
the things I think of.
But it stays up to date
and modern information.
So it doesn't become
as quickly outdated
as the textbooks that
will be in your room.
This is there, and it's very,
very usable information.
They are definitely connected to
all the common core standards.
They clearly state
those and connect
those in the lesson plans.
Makes it an amazing
help to the teachers,
especially if you're turning
it into administration,
like I said, or
you need something.
Maybe you've had
a family emergency
or you are not feeling well,
and you've got to be out.
There is a quick way
to get all of that
downloaded and sent off and
prepared for a substitute
to keep them busy to be able
to keep the students busy.
And then you get
farther in when it
starts when you get beyond
just learning about the history
and so forth, when you're
getting into the activities
and projects part, the
recipes in there are amazing.
They're tasty and interesting,
but yet convenient
and minimal type of
ingredients and directions
where it's easy to
teach teenagers and keep
them engaged.
If you get difficult
recipes, you
lose them or they feel
like failures because it's
hard for them to achieve.
So these are very
user-friendly recipes.
They're very tasty.
The students enjoy them.
Very well-written where they
can make them and easy to make.
And so everything's there.
It's just a total
support, and it
is a very highly
recommended-- for me,
a very highly
recommended website
and support and knowledge that
you can gain by using this.
And it's very easy to teach
culinary arts through this
by adding your own activities.
I thank you for your time today.
Well, thanks so much,
Connie, for being
our presenter for "Chopped!
Using iCEV to Teach
Culinary Arts."
I know I learned a wealth
of knowledge from you.
And I know you can also
provide more in-depth knowledge
in the Q&A session.
So if you want to--
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That's all the
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Thank you again, Connie.
And I hope everybody
has a great summer.
