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HHS Academy boosts NLHS students

Tim BeimalThe Health and Human Services Academy at New London High School (NLHS) is helping students gain valuable knowledge in the fields of health science, human services, education and training, government and public administration, and law, public safety, corrections, and security.

The Health and Human Services Academy aims to help students conduct interdisciplinary projects and a senior culminating project related to their chosen career pathway. Students must demonstrate their abilities to problem solve by completing rigorous and relevant assignments in multiple subject areas.

Health and Human Services Academy Coordinator Jennifer Doran is joined by instructors Phil Sloma (Social Studies Department), Tiffany Schultz (Physical Education Department), Amber Yerkey (Physical Education Department), Brian Rill (Physical Education Department), Lindsey Uvaas (Language Arts Department), Linda Gregory (Math Department), Laura Turner (Science Department), Michelle Huebner (Foreign Language Department), Amalia Wegner (Special Education Department), and Tracey Johnson (Art Department).

“The academy approach is going to help students identify their strengths and weaknesses as well as provide them with rigorous and relevant opportunities to become familiar with career pathways,” commented Doran.

“In the Health and Human Services Academy we have added two very relevant classes to the medical field – Principles of Biomedical Science and Human Body Systems. We plan to add a third class called Medical Interventions during the 2012-13 school year,” continued Doran. “We were recently certified by the Project Lead the Way Board and now can officially offer these classes for college credit through Milwaukee School of Engineering.

“These classes take a student centered approach with hands-on-learning, collaboration, problem solving and project planning. Students are able to use state of the art lab equipment and learn lab techniques that are unique from other classes,” stated Doran. “Students gain knowledge of many different medical careers through the classes as well. We have two teachers trained to teach all three classes; Laura Turner and I have spent the last three summers at two-week long training sessions. We plan to get trained in the fourth class called Biomedical Innovations this summer or next summer.”

Classes offered include:

• Health Science

o
Principles of Biomedical Sciences

o
Human Body Systems and/or Anatomy and Physiology

o Medical Interventions

o Statistics/AP Stats

o Health Occupations

• Human Services

o Psychology

o Sociology

o Anatomy and Physiology

o Statistics/AP Stats

o
Contemporary United States Issues

o Economics

o Computer Applications

•
Education
and Training

o
Contemporary United States Issues

o Core Elective

o Art Elective

o Psychology

o Sociology

o
Tutoring/Teachers Assistant

o Computer Applications

•
Government
and Administration

o
Contemporary United States Issues

o Sociology

o Psychology

o Economics

o Criminal Justice

o Statistics/AP Statistics

o Business Law

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Law, Public Safety, Corrections and
Security

o
Contemporary United States Issues

o Criminal Justice

o Economics

o Statistics/AP Stats

o Psychology

o Sociology

Students who complete three or more credits from one of the career clusters receive a Health and Human Services certificate. Students taking four credits of a world language receive an additional recognition on their certificate.

Students who take Principles of Biomedical Science, Human Body Systems, and Medical Interventions may earn college credit upon completion of the course and an end-of-course exam.

The final article in the series of stories on New London High School’s Career Academies will focus on the Communications, Arts and Business (CAB) Academy.

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