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Topic: Health/Medical Careers
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Keywords
health career, job, constellation
Special Instructions
Please note that there is a form that needs to be filled out when the
H.O.T. Jobs materials are used. You may access this form online by clicking
http://southtexas.uthscsa.edu/Forms/HealthCareers.pdf and may send it online before conducting your lesson. You may also print the form, fill it out and then send it by fax or mail as indicated on the attached addressed form. Thank you for taking time to do this, the form helps the South
Central Area Health Education Center keep track of materials usage and is critical to obtaining funding to keep these materials available. Individual information is not reported, only general information regarding numbers of people using H.O.T. Jobs materials will be reported.
Objectives
Students will be able to:
select relevant information about health-related careers
use information from text to create a presentation of health-related careers
present information using good presentation skills
create symbolic representation of the critical attributes of a health-related career
Activity Description
Students will work in groups of two to four in order to explore Texas health-related jobs. They will use information available from the Health Opportunities in Texas (H.O.T. Jobs) website which houses materials written in cooperation between the office of Rural Community Affairs (ORCA), the three Texas Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) program offices, Texas Education Agency (TEA), and the program office of the Health Education Training Centers Alliance of Texas (HETCAT). These materials are well-written and appealing for secondary level students and provide a complete look at the opportunities for a health-related career in Texas.
Students will decide upon group roles as outlined on the activity task card included in the activity. They will select a Health Career scroll from a basket prepared in advance by the teacher (instructions included in the materials list) and will work together to learn about the career, design a constellation that would represent the career and finally present the results of their work to the class.
Activity Background
As is true of many states across the country, Texas is experiencing a
shortage of well-trained health care professionals. This shortage
provides an opportunity to find and keep good jobs if students plan
ahead and obtain needed training. Most students think of “doctor, nurse
or dentist” when they think of health careers, but opportunities and
ranges of educational requirements are actually much more varied than
that perception. This activity will allow students to explore varied
opportunities that exist in the Texas health careers job market. They will
learn what various jobs entail, the education requirements and possible
salary ranges of the careers they study. Knowledge of the opportunities
will make goal-setting and future planning more effective.
Activity Materials
Select careers from the H.O.T. Jobs web site, printed, rolled
and tied with ribbon to form Health Career Scrolls
Basket or other container to hold the scrolls
20 cut-out stars or star stickers per group (A cut-out star pattern is included on the
student pages so students can trace them onto
colored paper and cut them out)
One large piece of butcher paper per group (exact size does not matter)
1 glue stick per group
Five colored markers per group
Task card with group roles described
Optional: Computer lab for technology link
Optional – computer station for showing video clips of jobs
(These clips are available at the following website:
http://www.southcentraltxahec.org/html/videolibrary.htm)
Activity Management Suggestions
Students can work in smaller groups of two or three by making sure that each task card is given to one student in the group, thus some students will have more than one task card. Monitor the groups carefully to make sure students are on task and are using good group skills. They should be interacting with each other, with no wasted time, to complete the assigned task. Carefully monitor the constellations being created by the groups to make sure they adequately represent the career being researched.
The two web resources listed at the end of this teacher page are very well done and are very complete. Students can use video clips from the video library as part of their presentation if you have a computer presentation station set up in advance. By including these clips, students will have a chance to hear professionals discuss their jobs. If a computer lab is available, students can do their basic research from the scrolls and then extend their research using information from the H.O.T. Jobs website or other sites approved in advance by you.
Extension
In order to extend this lesson, groups can contact a person who works
in one of the many health-related careers and can interview that person.
Students might ask why the professional chose his or her job, what they
do on a daily basis, what they enjoy most about their job, what training
they completed to prepare for their job, and what advice they might
give to someone considering their career. (Note: It is generally not
acceptable to ask a person how much money they make – that
information can be researched from other sources.)
References Used
The office of Rural Community Affairs (ORCA), the three Texas Area
Health Education Centers (AHEC) program offices, Texas Education
Agency (TEA), and the program office of the Health Education Training
Centers Alliance of Texas (HETCAT) directory of health careers, which
can be accessed at the following website: http://www.texashotjobs.org/
South Central Texas AHEC video library of Texas health-related careers:
http://www.southcentraltxahec.org/html/videolibrary.htm
Funding
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M.O.R.E. Curriculum Program Funding 2003-2008:
National Institutes of Health
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Minority K-12 Initiative for Teachers and Students
Grant # R25 HL75777
