Webinars – FCS

Are you looking for great activities for using RealCare Baby? Do you wish you had a brilliant way to keep your accessories organized? This webinar showcases customer ideas. We get our best activities, time-saving ideas and innovative ways for using RealCare Baby from teachers who use Baby. Educators from across the country have submitted their best practices and we are excited to spread the word!

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (23:22 min)

Students in healthcare and education need to have solid foundational knowledge of human growth and development across the lifespan. Teaching about birth defects and disorders is an important piece of this knowledge. Ensuring students understand what common birth defects and disorders are and the implications they have as individuals age is key. In this free presentation, you’ll get ideas for engaging today’s students in these difficult topics, including tools for creating “aha’” moments that students will remember.

Attendees will:

• Learn how to help students understand the fact that they may work with children with these conditions
• Get tips and ideas for teaching students to recognize these conditions and understand how to provide the best care
• Review Realityworks’ own interactive tools for teaching common birth defects and disorders
• Discover free resources you can use immediately

Presented by Denise DuBois, PMC, Realityworks Product Manager and National Consortium for Health Science Education Executive Council Member

Webinar (26:32 min)

Do your culinary students remember fractions, decimals, and percentages? Are you spending valuable class time reviewing basic math principles with your students before you even begin to teach your own culinary course content? If you find yourself in the role of a remedial math instructor for the first week or two of each semester, then this presentation is for you. Watch this presentation to get tips for teaching basic math skills, ideas for integrating foundational math concepts into your culinary lessons, and free resources for teaching math review so you can teach the culinary skills you need.

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (34:18)

Schools across the country are starting new Education and Training pathway programs to address increasing demand for educators and administrators. During this webinar, Realityworks Product Manager Denise DuBois will walk participants through key concepts needed in these programs and show you how you can align tools and curriculum that Realityworks offers to help jumpstart your courses.

Join us to:

• Review steps for building an education and training program from scratch
• Discover curriculum and hands-on resources that will save planning time
• Receive free assets you can use immediately

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (24:26 min)

After a long summer, it’s time to get Baby ready for a new school year! Join longtime Realityworks Product Support Technician (and verifiable RealCare Baby expert) Nate Schlieve to review our popular RealCare Baby program and make sure you have everything you need to start the new academic year successfully with Baby. You’ll get FREE resources that you can use to jump-start your Baby program this fall. You’ll also learn how our RealCare Baby User Center can save you time.

Presented by Nate Schlieve, Product Support Technician

Webinar (34:41 min)

Since RealCare Baby was “born” over two decades ago, more than 32,000 educational and social service organizations have used Baby to engage students and help them develop important life and career skills. During this free webinar, you’ll hear from seasoned Baby users and subject matter experts on what makes a program effective and how to make the most of the world’s most advanced infant simulator.

Attendees will hear tips and best practices from:

• MN FCS Teacher Trude Sowada
• SC NC FCS Teacher Ashley Edmonds
• MO FCS Teacher Cheryl Beckman
• Realityworks Product Manager Denise DuBois

Presented by Emily Kurth, Marketing Communications Specialist

Webinar (34:17 min)

Is your RealCare Baby ready to be packed up for summer vacation? During this free webinar, you’ll learn how to clean and store your Babies safely, plus optimize their battery life, so they are ready to be used when you return for the 2022-2023 school year. You’ll also discover FREE resources you can use to jump-start your RealCare Baby program in the fall!

Presented by Nate Schlieve, Product Support Technician

Webinar (31:44 min) 

Career exploration engages middle school students a time when they are at a higher risk for disengaging from learning due to challenges in forming identity, coping with puberty, and navigating new environments. During this webinar, Realityworks Product Manager and Alliance for Family and Consumer Sciences Co-Chair Denise DuBois will share ideas for integrating occupation investigation, hands-on skills, and soft skills into FCS-related career exploration.

Attendees will:

• Discover free curricula that can help you build a career exploration foundation within FCS
• Learn about hands-on resources that will make FCS career exploration come to life
• Receive free assets you can use immediately

Presented by Denise DuBois, Realityworks Product Manager and Alliance for Family and Consumer Sciences Co-Chair

Webinar (28:53 min) 

Are you looking for new resources and activities for your Education and Training Career Cluster toolbox? Realityworks’ supplemental kits are a great resource for adding new, hands-on opportunities to practice transferable career skills. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about our Education and Training Career Exploration Kit, Elementary Education Scenario Kit, and more. Activities will be shared from each kit that you can try in your program!

Attendees will:

• Receive a thorough introduction to a variety of supplemental classroom resources available for use
• Learn how to integrate the use of classroom kits to increase the hands-on activities in education pedagogy lessons
• Come away with ideas for using classroom kits in a variety of learning environments to engage students

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (36:01 min) 

Competitive events offered by the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), a national Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) for Family & Consumer Sciences (FCS) students, support the development of valuable skills, knowledge, and insights. Like any competitive event, dedicated preparation can really set competitors up for success. In this free webinar, Realityworks Product Manager (and AAFCS Alliance for Family and Consumer Sciences Co-Chair) Denise DuBois will showcase interactive training tools that can help prepare your students for competition — and offer hands-on opportunities to practice transferable career skills.

Attendees will:

• Discover 20+ unique tools for preparing students for competitive FCCLA events
• Learn which competitive Students Taking Action with Recognition (STAR) events align with specific products
• Discover new ways to provide hands-on applications using engaging experiential learning tools

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager 

Webinar (32:08 min)

During this 30-minute webinar, attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about Realityworks’ variety of infant simulators and demonstrators. The Quints package contains five popular tools that can enhance any early childhood, Family and Consumer Sciences and childcare career education class. This webinar will review the supporting curricula and give attendees a look at each of the following tools: Shaken Baby, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Baby, Drug-Affected Baby, Preemie Baby and Down Syndrome Baby. Attendees will also gain access to Realityworks’ “Using the RealCare Program for Career Exploration” curriculum for free.

Attendees will:

• See a live demonstration of The Quints: Shaken Baby, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Baby, Drug-Affected Baby, Preemie Baby and Down Syndrome Baby
• Review the curriculum and resources that accompany each simulator
• Receive a free career exploration curriculum

Presented by: Samantha Forehand, Marketing Communications Manager & Anne Bogstad, Senior Account Manager 

Webinar (23:13 min)

Finding engaging lessons to prepare our teens for life can take educators many directions. During this 45-minute webinar, Product Manager Denise Dubois, will share how experienced FCS instructors incorporate engaging lessons and activities in topics around family challenges, stress relief, self-reflection and gratitude that can connect to today’s teens. Also featured will be free lessons on this topic from Realityworks curriculum that can be downloaded after the webinar.  

Attendees will:

• Hear innovative strategies to engage today’s teens on key life issues  
• Learn what activities have worked in a high school classroom  
• Walk away with lessons to use online or in the classroom   

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (32:01 min)

Are you looking for new resources and activities for your culinary toolbox? Realityworks’ supplemental culinary kits are a great resource for adding new, hands-on opportunities to practice transferable career skills. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about our Food Safety, Knife Skills, Kitchen Safety, Food Truck Design and Food Science and Nutrition kits. Activities will be shared from each kit that you can try in your program!

Attendees will:

• Receive a thorough introduction to a variety of supplemental culinary kits available for use
• Learn how to integrate the use of classroom kits to increase the hands-on activities in culinary lessons
• Come away with ideas for using culinary kits in a variety of learning environments to engage students!

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (28:00 min)

After a long summer, it’s time to get Baby ready for a new school year! Join us to review the RealCare Baby® program and make sure you have everything you need to start the new academic year successfully with Baby. You’ll discover FREE resources that you can use to jump-start your Baby program this fall. You’ll also be introduced to our brand-new RealCare Baby User Center.  

Presented by Emily Winistorfer, Tradeshow and Events Coordinator 

Webinar (27:09 min)

Have you always wanted a RealCare Baby program but aren’t sure how to start the conversation with your administrators? This webinar will address how these remarkable infant simulators add value to any classroom, provide opportunities for real-world student engagement and career exploration, and leave a lasting impression on students. Join us to learn more about the RealCare Baby program and how to implement this popular program into your school.

Attendees will:

• Learn how to start a RealCare Baby® program
• Review methods for jump-start conversations with administration about implementing the RealCare Baby Program
• Get resources on where to find grants and how to get your community involved

Presented by Anne Bogstad, Senior Account Manager & Karen McDowell, Account Manager

Webinar (32:02 min)

Are you looking for more ways to engage students remotely? This session will feature many free resources we will make available for instructors who teach child care course content. The session includes teaching strategies and resources for soft skill instruction, technical childcare skills, how to use simulators and demonstrators to enhance lessons. Through scenarios, videos, lesson plans and activities, teachers will be armed with many new resources to use in their programs for a variety of learning environments. A few specific areas will be scenario-based learning for soft skills, child care teaching skills, learning environment and design, infant care and infant health and safety.

Attendees will:

• Get ideas for integrating soft skills instruction into child care lesson content
• Receive classroom activities that related to a variety of content areas in child care
• Come away with ideas for adapting lessons from the Realityworks childcare curricula to a variety of learning environments

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (29:56 min)

Are your RealCare Babies ready to be packed up for summer vacation? Learn how to clean, store and optimize the battery life of your RealCare Baby infant simulators so they are ready to be used when you return for the 2021-2022 school year. You’ll also discover FREE resources you can use to jump-start your RealCare Baby program in the fall!

Presented by: Nate Schlieve, Product Support Technician
Webinar (26:50 min)

Are you looking for new resources for teaching topics like reproduction and pregnancy, fetal development, infant and toddler development and more? If you answered yes, then this session is for you! Join us for a free, 30-minute webinar to get free resources you can implement into your own childcare career pathway program or HGD classroom.

Attendees will:

• Get sources for videos that can be used for remote learning
• Receive classroom activities that relate to a variety of content areas in child development
• Come away with ideas for adapting lessons from the RealCare curricula to online learning

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (37:01 min)

Recent surveys have overwhelmingly identified that employers are looking for candidates who are team players and problem solvers and who can plan, organize, and prioritize work. Leadership has been noted as the top attribute sought by employers.  The new Leadership Soft Skills Program (online or print-based) focuses on 18 different leadership soft skills.  Attend this session to learn about an opportunity for your students to validate those leadership skills and earn a Pre-Professional Certification in Leadership Essentials. 

Attendees will:

• Receive a thorough introduction to the Leadership Soft Skills Program and the skills included in it
• Learn how this program aligns to the PrePAC certification in Leadership  Essentials
• Receive a free lesson to try in  your own program

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager & Lori Myers, PHD, CFCS  Senior Director – Credentialing, Education and Research, American Assn. of Family & Consumer Sciences (AAFCS)

Webinar (30:30 min)

Are you looking for new resources and activities for your culinary toolbox?  Realityworks’ supplemental culinary kits are a great resource for adding new hands-on opportunities to learn transferable career skills. Culinary Instructor Melissa Priester will highlight her use of Realityworks’ Knife Skills Kit and share ideas for integrating it into culinary programs. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about our Food Safety Kit, Knife Skills Kit, Kitchen Safety Kit and Food Truck Design Kit.

Attendees will:

• Receive a thorough introduction to a variety of supplemental culinary kits available for use
• Learn how to integrate the use of classroom kits to increase the hands-on activities in culinary lessons
• Come away with ideas for using culinary kits in a variety of learning environments to engage students

Presented by Emily Kuhn, Communications Specialist and Melissa Priester, FCS Instructor

Webinar (34:27 min)

Designed for those with active RealCare Programs or those interested in starting one, this webinar will cover strategic ways to use RealCare Baby in a remote learning environment. Realityworks Product Manager Denise DuBois will discuss ways to maximize the RealCare Baby simulation experience with students learning from home. A panel of experienced teachers will share their best practices for using RealCare Baby in a variety of learning environments.

Attendees will:

• Walk through the ways to run a RealCare Baby simulation remotely
• Gain ideas on how to make their program successful in a remote learning environment
• Come away with free resources for using the lesson plans and curricular assets to maximize student outcomes

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager; FCS Teacher Trude Sowada; FCS Teacher Kayte Koehler

Webinar (36:18 min)

Wearable simulators give students an interactive experience like no other classroom resource can.  Allowing students to walk in the shoes of a person in the third trimester of pregnancy is a powerful tool for understanding what it is like. But how can you use this in a remote learning environment? Join us for a free, 30-minute webinar and get ideas for teaching lessons on pregnancy in all learning environments.

Attendees will:

• Understand how to use and where to find the curricular assets that accompany the Pregnancy Profile Simulator
• Receive and 1- and 2- week syllabus of lesson ideas for teaching a unit on pregnancy
• Learn how to create a DIY pregnancy simulation experience for remote learning
• Receive tips for using the Pregnancy Profile Simulator for in-person and hybrid learning models

Presented by Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (30:06 min)

If you are looking for new resources to help students prepare for the CDA certification test, then this webinar is for you.  Realityworks Product Manager, Denise DuBois, will highlight a brand-new resource for preparing students for this industry-recognized certification.  This scenario-based approach challenges students to problem-solve and work through infant, toddler and preschool-level real life scenarios involve childcare issues.

Attendees will:

• Receive an overview of all kit components
• Get sample scenarios from the infant/toddler and preschool levels
• Come away with ideas for using this new kit to infuse childcare pathway programs with real-world scenarios

Presented by:  Denise DuBois, Product Manager  

Webinar (30:24 min)

Designed for those with active RealCare Programs or those interested in starting one, this webinar will cover strategic ways to use RealCare Baby in a remote learning environment. Realityworks Product Manager Denise DuBois will discuss ways to maximize the RealCare Baby simulation experience with students learning from home. We will also look at ways to integrate the use of the RealCare curricula to enhance online learning.

Attendees will:

• Walk through the ways to run a RealCare Baby simulation remotely
• Gain ideas on how to make their program successful in a remote learning environment
• Come away with free resources for using the lesson plans and curricular assets to maximize student outcomes.

Presented by:  Denise DuBois, Product Manager  

Webinar (38:16 min)

 

Designed for those who recently purchased RealCare Baby or inherited a program they are not familiar with; this webinar will cover the important elements of Getting Started with a RealCare Baby program. Realityworks Product Support Team Member, Nate Schlieve, will review of what’s included with RealCare Baby 3, how to us Control Center Software and interpret the post-simulation report, and give simple tips and tricks to make your program successful.

Attendees will:

• View the main components needed to run a RealCare Baby Program
• Walk through the key sections of Control Center Software
• Gain ideas on how to make a successful program for their educational setting

Presented by:  Nate Schlieve, Product Support Technician 

Webinar (1:19:09 min)

 

Finding engaging lessons to prepare our teens for life can take educators many directions. During this 45-minute webinar, Family and Consumer Science Teacher Melissa Priester, will share how she incorporates engaging lessons and activities in topics around family challenges, stress relief, self-reflection and gratitude that can connect to today’s teens. Also featured will be free lessons on this topic from Realityworks curriculum that can be downloaded after the webinar.

Attendees will:

• Hear innovative strategies to engage today’s teens on key life issues
• Learn what activities have worked in a high school classroom
• Walk away with lessons to use online or in the classroom

Presented by:  Melissa Priester, Family and Consumer Science Teacher & Denise DuBois, Product Manager  

Webinar (46:02 min)

 

In a 30-minute webinar, Realityworks Product Support Supervisor Chris Potapenko will go over how to use RealCare Baby Curriculum in Google Classroom. 

Attendees will: 

• Hear common remote teaching strategies 
• Learn about setting up a Google Classroom with the RealCare Curriculum 
• Walk away with access to Google formatted RealCare Curriculum 

Presented by: Chris Potapenko, Product Support Supervisor 

Webinar (28:30 min)

 

You’re invited to discover engaging ways to teach your students about reproduction, fetal development and pregnancy without leaving your computer. In this free, 45-minute webinar, Realityworks RealCare Product Manager Denise DuBois will review three lessons from the curriculum that accompanies our human growth and development simulators: “Conception Through Embryonic Development”, “Fetal Development,” and “Pregnancy Symptoms and Discomforts.” No models or simulators? No problem. You’ll receive the handouts and activities you need to facilitate each lesson for an e-learning environment. You’ll also learn how our Pregnancy Profile Simulator, Fetal Development Kit and Human Reproductive Systems Kit can be used to add a hands-on learning component if desired.
Attendees will:

• Learn ways to teach lesson content in an e-learning environment
• Receive downloadable handouts and activities for each lesson
• Learn how a DIY pregnancy simulation experience can be used to complement the material 

Presented by: Denise DuBois, Product Manager

Webinar (36:48 min)

You’re invited to discover engaging ways to teach your students basic infant care and parenting skills – without leaving your computer. In this free, 45-minute webinar, Realityworks RealCare Product Manager Denise Dubois will review three lessons from our RealCare Baby curriculum: “Holding and Feeding,” “Parenting Styles” and “Cost of a Baby.” No Baby? No problem. You’ll receive the handouts and activities you need to facilitate each lesson for an e-learning environment. You’ll also learn how RealCare Baby can be used to add a hands-on learning component if desired.
Attendees will:

• Learn how to teach each lesson for an e-learning environment
• Receive downloadable handouts and activities for each lesson
• Learn how RealCare Baby can be used to complement the material

Presented by: Denise DuBois, Product Manager, Realityworks

Webinar (44:53 min)

 

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Designed for those who only recently purchased RealCare baby infant simulators or inherited Babies they are not familiar with, this webinar features a review of what’s included with RealCare Baby 3, how to add and program RealCare Baby, how to interpret the post-simulation report, and an overview of our RealCare Baby Product Support area.

Webinar (29:06 min)

There are a lot of moving pieces in a RealCare Baby Program, but that’s no reason to fear starting your own. Watch this 30-minute webinar to learn secrets from seasoned RealCare Baby users. You’ll hear tips and tricks for storing your own Babies and supplies, preparing for overnight simulations, distributing Babies to your students and collecting post-simulation reports.

Webinar (32:31 min)