Section 27.490 Health Careers

Section 27.490  Health

Careers

The standards established in

this Section will be applicable until October 1, 2024.

a)         The competent health careers teacher understands the

foundations of work, the career development process, occupational skill

standards, and workplace skill requirements.

1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        understands the history, organization, and future of work and

how work relates to needs and functions of the economy and society.

B)        understands career development concepts, the relationship

between work and learning, and the career planning process.

C)        understands the use of the relevant Illinois Occupational Skill

Standards in the development of curriculum (see "Clinical Laboratory

Science/Biotechnology Cluster" (1998), "Medical Office Cluster"

(1998), "Nursing Cluster" (1998), "Occupational Therapy

Cluster" (2001), "Physical Therapist Assistant Cluster" (1999),

and "Surgical Technologist" (1999), all published by the Illinois

Occupational Skill Standards and Credentialing Council, 2450 Foundation Drive,

Springfield IL 62703-5432; no later editions or revisions are incorporated).

2)         Performance Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        relates workplace cultural expectations to workplace skills.

B)        develops partnerships with members of the business community to

provide learning opportunities for students.

C)        provides advice in the career planning process.

D)        selects appropriate skill standards for the program areas.

b)         The competent health careers teacher demonstrates the ability

to plan, deliver, and evaluate instruction based upon knowledge of subject

matter in the field; student organizations; student, community and work needs;

curriculum goals; and findings of educational research.

1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        understands pedagogy unique to the discipline

e competent health careers teacher demonstrates the ability

to plan, deliver, and evaluate instruction based upon knowledge of subject

matter in the field; student organizations; student, community and work needs;

curriculum goals; and findings of educational research.

1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        understands pedagogy unique to the discipline.

B)        understands the rationale for integrating student

organizations' activities into the curriculum.

C)        understands professional literature relating to specific

content area and to workplace needs.

D)        understands economic/socio-economic conditions, patterns of

business development, and changing labor and career opportunities and their

impact on the relevancy of classroom instruction.

2)         Performance Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        utilizes appropriate pedagogy unique to the individual

discipline within career and technical education.

B)        creates learning environments and classroom activities that

develop life/workplace skills and knowledge in the discipline.

C)        identifies and utilizes educational research findings that

justify teaching strategies.

D)        applies curricular content and processes in order to achieve

the goals of student organizations.

E)        applies post-secondary admission standards and occupational

skill standards when designing curriculum and assessment.

F)         designs appropriate assessment plans for and by students.

G)        develops collaborative partnerships with students, colleagues,

community, business/industry, and parents to maximize resources.

H)        participates in appropriate professional organizations and

develops a plan for continued personal and professional growth.

I)         plans, organizes, and manages laboratories/technical

facilities for instruction that meet diverse needs of students (i.e., safety,

inventory, filing, requisitioning equipment and materials, maintenance,

budgeting)

ry, and parents to maximize resources.

H)        participates in appropriate professional organizations and

develops a plan for continued personal and professional growth.

I)         plans, organizes, and manages laboratories/technical

facilities for instruction that meet diverse needs of students (i.e., safety,

inventory, filing, requisitioning equipment and materials, maintenance,

budgeting).

J)         implements laws and policies relating to safe environments and

incorporates appropriate safety standards, healthy practices, and ergonomic

needs.

c)         The competent health careers teacher understands the process

of reading and demonstrates instructional abilities to teach reading in the content

area of health careers education.

1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        understands that the reading process is the construction of

meaning through the interactions of the reader's background knowledge and

experiences, the information in the text, and the purpose of the reading

situation.

B)        recognizes the relationships among the four language arts

(reading, writing, listening, and speaking), and knows how to provide

opportunities to integrate these through instruction.

C)        understands how to design, select, modify, and evaluate

materials in terms of the reading needs of the learner.

D)        understands the importance of and encourages the use of

literature for adolescents in the curriculum and for independent reading.

E)        understands the relationship between oral and silent reading.

F)         understands the role of subject-area vocabulary in developing

reading comprehension.

G)        understands the importance of the unique study strategies

required of the specific content area in developing reading comprehension.

H)        understands the importance of the relationship between

assessment and instruction in planning

ands the relationship between oral and silent reading.

F)         understands the role of subject-area vocabulary in developing

reading comprehension.

G)        understands the importance of the unique study strategies

required of the specific content area in developing reading comprehension.

H)        understands the importance of the relationship between

assessment and instruction in planning.

2)         Performance Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        plans and teaches lessons for students that develop

comprehension of content-area materials through instructional practices that

include analyzing critically, evaluating sources, synthesizing and summarizing

material.

B)        plans and teaches lessons on how to monitor comprehension and

correct confusions and misunderstandings that arise during reading.

C)        plans and models use of comprehension strategies before,

during, and after reading of text.

D)        provides opportunities for students to develop content-area vocabulary

through instructional practices that develop connections and relationships

among words, use of context clues, and understanding of connotative and

denotative meaning of words.

E)        plans and teaches lessons that encourage students to write

about the content read in order to improve understanding.

F)         plans and teaches lessons for students to develop study

strategies that include previewing and preparing to read text effectively,

recognizing organizational patterns unique to informational text, and using

graphic organizers as an aid for recalling information.

G)        plans and teaches units that require students to carry out

research or inquiry using multiple texts, including electronic resources.

H)        provides continuous monitoring of students' progress through

observations, work samples, and various informal reading assessments

izational patterns unique to informational text, and using

graphic organizers as an aid for recalling information.

G)        plans and teaches units that require students to carry out

research or inquiry using multiple texts, including electronic resources.

H)        provides continuous monitoring of students' progress through

observations, work samples, and various informal reading assessments.

I)         analyzes and evaluates the quality and appropriateness of

instructional materials in terms of readability, content, length, format,

illustrations, and other pertinent factors.

J)         promotes the development of an environment that includes

classroom libraries that foster reading.

d)         The health careers teacher shall be currently registered,

licensed, or certified to practice in the specific health profession for which

he/she has been educated.

1)         Knowledge Indicator – The competent health careers teacher

understands the body of knowledge necessary to fulfill requirements for

obtaining a license, certificate, or registration to practice in a specific

health career.

2)         Performance Indicator – The competent health careers teacher

demonstrates the expertise required to obtain a license, certificate, or

registration in a specific health career.

e)         The competent health careers teacher understands the basic

concepts and issues in health care.

1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        understands the concepts of wellness and illness and basic

health maintenance practices.

B)        understands career development concepts, understands career

ladders and occupational restrictions within the health field.

2)         Performance Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        exhibits workplace skills and relates workplace cultures/expectations.

B)        demonstrates the ability to develop partnerships with

individuals and agencies in health care systems to provide access to learning

opportunities

pts, understands career

ladders and occupational restrictions within the health field.

2)         Performance Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        exhibits workplace skills and relates workplace cultures/expectations.

B)        demonstrates the ability to develop partnerships with

individuals and agencies in health care systems to provide access to learning

opportunities.

f)         The competent health careers teacher understands human

biology, growth, and development.

1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        understands basic functions of and relationships among the

systems of the human body.

B)        understands human physical, cognitive, emotional, and social

growth and development.

2)         Performance Indicator – The competent health careers teacher

recognizes how human biology affects growth and development.

g)         The competent health careers teacher explains health

maintenance and disease prevention.

1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        understands nutritional principles, nutritional requirements,

and health problems involving nutrition.

B)        understands the impact of stress and the need for exercise,

rest, relaxation, and sleep.

C)        understands causes and prevention of communicable diseases.

D)        understands non-communicable diseases, hereditary diseases,

chronic diseases, disabilities, and terminal illnesses.

E)        understands social pathologies including violence, child and

spousal abuse, sexual abuse, and substance abuse.

F)         understands causes and treatments of mental illness.

G)        understands community and societal health.

2)         Performance Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        promotes healthy habits.

B)        assists students and clients to model principles of health

maintenance and disease prevention

iolence, child and

spousal abuse, sexual abuse, and substance abuse.

F)         understands causes and treatments of mental illness.

G)        understands community and societal health.

2)         Performance Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        promotes healthy habits.

B)        assists students and clients to model principles of health

maintenance and disease prevention.

h)         The competent health careers teacher demonstrates fundamental

procedures in patient care and safety precautions in health situations.

1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        understands fundamental patient care procedures.

B)        understands standard transmission (universal) and OSHA standards.

2)         Performance Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        executes fundamental procedures in patient care and safety

precautions in health-related situations.

B)        demonstrates emergency medical procedures and procedures for

preventing, reporting, and reacting to fires, accidents, and natural disasters.

i)          The competent health careers teacher describes the current

health care industry.

1)         Knowledge Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        understands the current health care industry.

B)        understands career options and requirements in health care.

2)         Performance Indicators – The competent health careers teacher:

A)        demonstrates ability to work in a health care setting.

B)        demonstrates ability to work within a system.