Career and Technical Education- Teacher Induction Program (CTE - TIP) Resources

Below are curriculum and other resources for health science technology educators. Contact Sonya McNamara with any comments or curriculum items you would like to contribute.

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Ice Breakers/Team Builders
Games to Use in Class
Handouts
Curriculum Resources from Kim Mueller, Mankato
Interesting Information
Internet Videos
Pharmacy Tech and Anatomy Websites
Web Resources Curriculum
Web Resources Career Awareness and Planning
Program Information and Data
Other States

Ice Breakers/Team Builders
Ice Breaker Bingo Instructions
Bingo Card
Puzzles to Solve
Puzzles to Solve Key
Rope Game
Sentence Activity When there is a problem to solve the more people that provide  input, the better. People bring a wide variety of experiences to any given situation. From Candy Leopold.

Games to Use In Class
Wheel of Fortune

Jeopardy (Blank)

Jeopardy Etiquette

20 Questions (Blank)

Millionaire (Blank)

Weakest Link (Blank)

Christmas Hollywood Squares (Blank)

Hollywood Squares

Hollywood Squares 2

Squares Instructions

Timer

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Handouts

Why Choose Healthcare? A handout for students and parents that makes
   the case for why healthcare as a profession is so important.
10 Reasons to be a Pharmacist from Wendy Foley

Top 25 Occupations with highest vacancy 2005

Your Path to a Health Career
Whole Brain Activity from Candy Leopold
Careers In Healthcare MnSCU's list of healthcare careers and which schools offer the program.

Curriculum Resources from Kim Mueller, Mankato
Abuse Posters
Alternative and Complementary Therapies
Career Portfolio
Ethical Dilemma Topics
Evaluation and Feedback
Healthcare in the News!!
ITV Assignment 1
ITV Classroom Rules Posting
ITV Parent Greeting
Medical Abbreviations
Public Health Task Force
Simulation of Disabilities
Trapped (Has also been used as an ice breaker)

Interesting Information
Employment Projections 2002-2012 (MN DEED)
Southern Minnesota Area Health Education Center Flyer (Southern MN Presentations)
University of Minnesota Academic Health Center Course
Anatomy and Physiology Competencies (Michigan)
Department of Education Frameworks
Michigan's Med Pal, an eMentoring initiative program guide from Mike Mitchell

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Web resources for Health Science Technology Educators

Videos
Newton's Apple: Streaming video of various science concepts including teacher guides.  

Curriculum Resources
Connie Sullivan, Blaine High School, has a website with class outlines, interactive quizes, as well as helpful links. This anatomy and physiology link is on her site and has a lot of good information on it as well.

This national student organization website has a link to health careers as well as more information about HOSA. www.hosa.org www.minnesotahosa.org

This public health game is a good way to introduce students to the world of public health. http://www.mclph.umn.edu/watersedge/

The state of Tennessee offers Health Science teachers instructional resources in algebra, biology, and English. http://www.state.tn.us/education/vehsinstrres.htm

National Institutes of Health Office of Science Education has many resources and topics for elementary, middle, and high school. They also have different resource formats to choose from. The career exploration site has quite a few in it.
http://science-education.nih.gov/home2.nsf/index.htm

This website has many Power Point game templates such as Jeopardy, and Millionaire that you can download and modify to fit your curriculum.  http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/

CareerOneStop has nearly 250 videos online with Spanish narration describing specific occupations. The no-cost videos show what is like to work in each occupation and give information about skills and experience needed to succeed in each job. To watch health care related videos in Spanish, go to: www.careervideos.org. Other Spanish videos and more than 450 career and industry videos in English can be viewed or downloaded for free at: www.careerinfonet.org/videos.asp.

Scrubs, Gloves and Microscopes Program from the University of Minnesota: http://www.healthcareers.umn.edu/hcc/highschool/SGM.html

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Web resources for Pharmacy Tech and Anatomy- Thanks Kim M.
http://www.pccontheweb.com/ This curriculum is inexpensive and uses classroom, text and online.  Teachers should go to the public schools tab and scroll to the bottom to find out about curriculum and pricing.  Goes with PCTB testing.

http://www.passassured.com/index.html
This is the online (self paced CD) program that MDE promoted at a workshop in February.  Goes with PCTB testing

http://www.innerbody.com/index.html
Human Anatomy Online (allows you to click on the bodies - within categories such as urinary, muscular, respiratory, etc) to learn about anatomy and physiology.

Career Awareness and Planning

The ISEEK website offers a variety of career and education awareness and planning information.

This website offers a variety of career and education awareness and planning information. www.careeronestop.org

The Minnesota Hospital Association has developed a useful website that offers career awareness information. www.MyFirstDay.Org

The Mayo Clinic offers a variety of opportunities to teachers and students around career awareness.  http://www.mayoclinic.org/careerawareness/index.html

The Iron Range Resources Healthcare Taskforce has developed a student friendly website about the careers available in Northeastern Minnesota called LearntoCare.org.

MedLine Plus Health Occupations shows some health careers as well as the latest news at the National Institute of Health

Johnson & Johnson's nursing career exploration website.

Exploring Allied Health Professions The Health Professions Network (HPN) has put together a helpful brochure on choosing the Allied Health Profession that is best suited to your goals and aspirations.  To download the brochure, visit the HPN's website.

jUMPSTART  was developed to provide an overview of many different allied health professions, including the programs available at UNMC.  jUMPSTART is a fun, engaging, approachable way to learn about different health professions.  Jump on in to jUMPSTART!    

Careers In Healthcare MnSCU's list of healthcare careers and which schools offer the program. This PDF is also available on the MnSCU website

Program Information and Data                                    

Labor market information is very important for advisory groups to know about your region. This website has all industries labor market information for Minnesota.
http://www.deed.state.mn.us/lmi/Home.htm

The Office of Rural Health and Primary Care from the Minnesota Department of Health has put together a list of best practices in a variety of areas called Models That Work.  www.health.state.mn.us          

Check out DOL's InDemand - Connecting today's students with the careers of tomorrow. This issue explores careers in the high growth industry of healthcare. It provides teachers with interesting and relevant information about career opportunities, education and the skills needed for various jobs. It offers resources to explore careers and tips about how to help students build successful futures. http://www.careervoyages.gov/pdf/indemandmagazine-healthcare.pdf

The Minnesota State Department of Education has licensure information, grants and data. http://education.state.mn.us/mde/index.html

Other States:

• Utah: http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/ate/HST/hst.htm
  
  This one is really good!         http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/ate/tlc/Resources/resourceshst.htm

• SD: http://www.sdjobs.org/sdhott/index.htm
  
• National: http://www.nchste.org/