The CTE Health Science/Medical Terminology Teacher instructs students in foundational medical concepts, healthcare career pathways, and the universal language of medicine. The ideal candidate leverages real-world healthcare experience to bridge academic theory with practical industry skills.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Curriculum Delivery: Teach foundational health science concepts and specialized medical terminology courses aligned with state CTE standards.
- Instructional Design: Create engaging, hands-on lessons, including laboratory simulations, medical case studies, and interactive vocabulary exercises.
- Language Mastery: Guide students in breaking down, pronouncing, and applying medical prefixes, suffixes, combining forms, and root words.
- Career Preparation: Introduce students to diverse healthcare pathways, industry professional standards, and ethical medical practices.
- Student Leadership: Advisor or support the local chapter of HOSA (Future Health Professionals) to promote leadership and skills competition.
- Industry Alignment: Maintain an active Program Advisory Committee comprising local healthcare professionals to ensure curriculum relevance.
- Classroom Management: Maintain a safe, organized, and collaborative classroom environment modeled after professional clinical settings.
- Assessment & Tracking: Evaluate student progress through written exams, oral terminology drills, and practical skill demonstrations.
School/Community Relations
- Strives to establish cooperative relations and makes reasonable effort to communicate with parents/guardians when appropriate.
- Communicates clearly, consistently and positively with parents via all appropriate mediums.
- Cooperates with members of the administration, other staff and with CSAL, Inc.
- Maintains confidentiality regarding student records.
- Participates in parent communication activities.
- Participates in extracurricular activities to ensure a positive school culture and provide support for students and staff (as required).
- May perform other duties as assigned.
Key Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Medical Expertise: Deep understanding of human anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, and comprehensive medical language.
- Instructional Skills: Ability to differentiate instruction for diverse learners and implement effective classroom management strategies.
- Technology Literacy: Proficiency with learning management systems (LMS), grading software, and modern educational technology.
- Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with students, parents, administration, and healthcare partners.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Ability to hear, understand and distinguish speech and/or other sounds. For example:
o in person or virtually
o on the telephone
o Over the PA system
- Somewhat stressful due to frequent student activity.
- Standing for long periods of time and walking frequently, climbing stairs, bending, kneeling, pushing and pulling, reaching and lifting.
- Constantly communicating with others to exchange information accurately, loudly, softly, or quickly
- Able to exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force as frequently as needed to move objects.
- Physical restraint of another person or persons as needed.
Work Environment
While performing the responsibilities of this position, the work environment characteristics listed below are representative of the environment the employee will encounter:
- This is a 9-month, onsite, in person position. Usual school working conditions
- May be noisy during high student traffic
- Temperature may change from very cold to very hot due to weather and location
- Length of work day varies from school schedule to extended days due to evening activities and emergencies.
- May require work on weekends and/or holidays and scheduled school breaks.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university preferred.
- Valid State Teaching Credential in Career and Technical Education (Health Science/Medical Technology) or eligibility to pursue an alternative pathway.
- Minimum of 2-3 years of verifiable full-time work experience in the healthcare industry (e.g., Nurse, Medical Assistant, EMT, or Allied Health Professional).
- Able to pass required background check and DCFS State Central Registry Review.
- Eligible to work in the US without Sponsorship.
Professional Conduct
Maintain a high standard of professional conduct. Breach of said professional conduct includes, but is not limited to neglect of duty, dishonesty, engagement in acts that are contrary to CSAL, Inc. policy, unlawful activities, or any other conduct which is seriously prejudicial to the school system.
The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is "at-will" as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the "at-will" nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.
CSAL, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status age, or genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law.