How does The FCI train its teachers?
In important ways, quite differently from any other culinary arts program out there. Like other culinary institutes, we do believe it’s crucial to teach our students the basics of cooking so they can get the kind of satisfying careers they seek. But we also believe this is possible only if our Chef-Instructors are outstanding and inspiring teachers. So we’ve worked closely with the director of the highly regarded Klingenstein Center at Columbia University Teachers College to help our instructors develop powerful communication and teaching skills. And it works. The environment in our classrooms is dynamic, inspired, sometimes electric. Peek into any of our classrooms and you’ll find our Chef-Instructors giving riveting lectures, demonstrating methods with passion again and again, parsing the sometimes confusing language of cooking, and working one-on-one with humor and joy to help students sharpen their techniques and understanding.
