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The School of Health and Education
Gloucester Township Campus and Pennsauken Campus
This program is designed to help students explore various careers associated with the expanding health care industry. The first three years will include fundamentals of patient care, anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, keyboarding/word processing, medical office applications, and medical office communications. During the third year, students will plan, in consultation with their teachers, to pursue either the patient care assistant option or the medical office assistant option in their fourth year of training.
The fourth year of the patient care assistant option will include fundamentals of nutrition as well as training in school and in clinical settings to prepare students for the Certified Nursing Assistant Examination and the Certified Homemaker Home Health Aide Examination.
The fourth year of the medical office assistant option will include advanced medical office communications and applications including medical transcription. Graduates of this option may pursue careers as medical receptionists, medical secretaries, medical transcriptionists, and unit secretaries.
Students who meet eligibility requirements may have the opportunity to earn college credits for units of study within this career program.
Early Childhood Education
Gloucester Township Campus
This course will allow highly motivated stu-dents to experience teaching as a possible career choice. This career program will include the practical experience of preparing and teaching pre-school age children in our day care center. The students will prepare lessons, ob-serve children, and teach lessons. Stu-dents will prepare lessons for large and small motor skills, music, language, and science and math skills in a developmentally appropriate curriculum.
Our pre-school program is designed for students interested in understanding the growth and development of children. The emphasis is on learning the developmental patterns of children from conception to preschool age and the effect of the environment o n the child’s growth. Units of study will include careers in child care; physical, mental, social, and emotional development of children; abuse of children; handicapped children; and substitute care. Many class activities center around analysis of the student’s own childhood. Students will take an active role with the students in our early childhood center by creating and analyzing child’s play, preparing nutritious snacks, creating preschool age lesson plans, and designing child care brochures. The students will meet weekly in a seminar format to discuss readings in early childhood education, educational theorists, language development, imaginative play and other topics related to preschool children. We offer a comprehensive early childhood program for high school students with a developmentally appropriate early childhood curriculum that includes literacy, math, art, science and drama activities.