Priorities
The teachers were asked to prioritize what they saw as the most important next 3 steps.
The data is summarized in the table below. The specific teacher comments are also listed
below.
Category
Speakers or Career Day
Pathway Courses
Medical Terminology
Internship
Certification
Portfolio
Job Shadowing/Training
Leadership Team
Medical Translation Class
College Credit
Cross Curricular
Communication
Number of Votes
9
15
1
3
6
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
Pathway: 15
1. Path through High School (Pathway)
2. Give students a lot of choices (Pathway)
3. Health Based classes and clear pathway classes (Pathway)
4. Medical Terminology (Medical Terminology)
5. Making students and teachers aware of career pathways (Pathway)
6. Curriculum development or path for each grade level (Pathway)
7. Add public health or less technical kinds of careers (Pathway)
8. Animal careers (Pathway)
9. Sports health (Pathway)
10. Build 9th intro course (Pathway)
11. Hands on courses (pathway)
12. Students should take classes to prepare them in their career choices. (pathway)
13. Student choice in classes/directions (pathway)
14. Pick classes students need before going to college (pathway)
15. Make sure students are in their chosen career path making sure all classes are chosen
appropriately for each Health career student (Pathway)
Internships: 3
1. Make sure all interns are selected for student and are followed throughout semester or
yearly. (internships)
2. Students should be able to do internships with careers, schools, and volunteer at
places, also. (internships)
3. Internships and guest speakers (Internship)
Portfolio: 2
1. Portfolios (portfolios)
2. Portfolio (portfolio)
Speakers/Career Day:9
1. Have monthly speakers in Intro to Health class if possible include advisory quarterly
(Speakers)
2. Speakers/Career Day (Speakers/ Career Day)
3. Career Day (Speakers/Career Day)
4. Speakers (Speakers/ Career Day)
5. Job shadowing/ speakers (speakers)
6. Shadowing/speakers (speakers)
7. Implement a speakers program that will have one event per month for the whole
community (speakers)
8. Speakers should come in for all the Health Communities (speakers)
9. Health Fair (speakers)
Certification: 6
1. More potential certifications (Certification)
a. Dentistry
b. Optometry
c. Cosmetology
2. Certifications (Certification)
3. Certifications (certification)
4. Certifications (certification)
5. Begin a certification program with 1 or 2 companies (certification)
6. Think about the outlines of a certification program (certification)
Let’s not focus so much on medical terminology because kids are going to forget it if
they take the course in 9th or 10th grade. It would just be a waste of time. (Medical
terminology)
Medical Translation classes (Medical Translation)
Have college credit when graduate (College Credit)
Cross curriculum (cross curricular)
Develop Health Leadership Team (leadership team)
Job Shadowing/training (Job shadowing/training)
Communication (communication)
Make the coordination of this community a full-time person (what Robbie does)(?)