Teacher, Healthcare STEM​/CTE Details

SUMMARY

Provide quality Healthcare instruction aligned to state and federal requirements associated with Career & Technical Education (CTE) in the Healthcare-related career fields. Possible courses include but are not limited to:
Anatomy and Physiology, Emergency Medical Responder, Healthcare Core Curriculum, or Medical Terminology. Implement rigorous inquiry-based learning tasks to engage students in deep content of the healthcare industry. Utilize a variety of assessment strategies—diagnostic, formative and summative—to inform instructional decisions and increase student self‑management of learning. Capable of applying the nursing process (assessment, planning, delivery, assurance and evaluation) to coordinated health care for individual students.

As needed, assist Special Education teams to provide nursing assessments and recommended educational support services for special needs students enrolled in CTE courses. Recent teaching or professional experience in Healthcare preferred.

300300 Medical Careers license to teach in grades 9-12; or the appropriate qualifications for a CTE Tier 1 or 2 license.

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• A valid License as a Public School Nurse from the Minnesota Department of Education
• License as a Registered Nurse from the Minnesota Board of Nursing
• Public Health certification from the Minnesota Board of Nursing
• Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)
• Paramedic accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP)

• Create an educational environment that acknowledges and encourages multiple pathways to post‑secondary education including four‑year degrees, two‑year degrees from community and technical colleges, industry certifications, apprenticeships and employer‑based learning.
• Support MPS requirements to implement Career & Technical Education programs of study in alignment with Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) state and federal goals and reporting requirements which include:
  • Integration of academics (or liberal arts and sciences) with career and technical education programs.
  • Understand and promote the link between CTE at the secondary and postsecondary levels.
  • Provide students with understanding of all aspects of an industry.
  • Develop, improve or expand the use of technology in CTE.
  • Attend CTE professional development as required to maintain program certification requirements.
  • Actively participate in CTE program evaluations.
  • Initiate, improve, expand and modernize quality CTE programming.
  • Align course curriculum and assessments to Technical Skills Assessments (TSA) approved by Minnesota State and local consortium.
  • Provide activities to prepare special populations for high‑skill, high‑wage, or high‑demand occupations that will lead to a living wage career.
• Provide context to core academics through integrated, applied and experiential learning (internships, guest speakers, mentoring, job shadowing, worksite tours, field trips, career readiness skills) with a broad exposure to career fields and a balanced high school experience.
• Have a working knowledge of and implement the Minnesota State Standards and the District Graduation Requirements; knowledge of the subject matter, classroom management techniques, current researched best practices and strategies, as well as students' learning styles and needs, both academic and affective.
• Teach students the required curricula using strategies that foster thinking, reasoning and problem solving.
• Collaborate with peers to develop, plan and implement best practices based on the needs/abilities of the students.
• Assess students' developmental, cognitive and social needs and provide developmentally appropriate instruction to meet those needs.
• Create lessons and learning environments that are safe, respectful and interesting as well as multicultural/gender and ability fair/developmentally appropriate.
• Collaborate and communicate regularly with families in making educational decisions and use family and community resources to support learning.
• Acquire knowledge of the…