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INTRODUCTION

Welcome to CareerView Health Occupations!
This special edition of CareerView: Exploring the and describe their interests, likes and dislikes, personal
World of Work helps prepare high-intermediate and characteristics, work styles and values, and how these
advanced English language learners for a successful dimensions relate to different employment sectors and
transition to continuing education, vocational training, jobs. Key objectives of this section are to enable learners
and employment in the health occupational sector. to use the federal O*NET Career Exploration Tools at
The mission of the course is to develop students’ the mynextmove.org website to learn about jobs that
career and academic readiness skills while they may interest them, and to talk about their interests
explore their work interests, career opportunities, and career exploration with an employment counselor,
and pathways for achieving short-term and long- career navigator, or other instructional support person.
term goals. The integrated curriculum promotes This section also orients students to the five job zones
the employability and academic readiness goals of that describe the level of education, work experience,
the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS), and job-specific training required for employment in
the College and Career Readiness Skills (CCRS), the particular occupations. It also introduces students to the
Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA), concept of soft skills—the social and communication skills
and the Employability Skills Framework developed by that are emphasized throughout the course and that are
the U.S. Department of Education. Technology tasks important for success in the 21st-century workplace.
throughout the course promote learners’ development Part B (Career and Academic Preparation) consists
of digital information skills to find, evaluate, organize, of two units: Medical Care and Health Services. Each
create, and present information to prepare for the unit begins with a focus on vocabulary development
world of work as well as continuing education. and communication skills for employability through
CareerView Health Occupations can serve as the contextualized instruction tied to the employment
capstone level of a traditional English series, as a sector. Lesson content is designed to help students
stand-alone or supplemental high-intermediate or answer these seven key questions about possible
transition/bridge/advanced vocational English course, career pathways:
and as an introductory career exploration resource for • What kinds of occupations are there?
students entering integrated education and training • What occupations might interest me?
(IET) programs, occupational training, and high school • Where would I work?
career and technical education courses. • Who would I work with?

The four key course objectives are: • What would I do in this occupation?
• What tools, equipment, and technology would
• Career exploration I use?
• Effective communication skills for employability • How would I learn things on the job?
and success in the workforce
• Academic readiness for continuing education Unit content includes key occupational vocabulary
• Development of learners’ digital information skills (names of occupations; worksite locations; job
and use of technology responsibilities; and equipment, tools, and objects) and
key forms of workplace communication (discourse with
The Curriculum supervisors, co-workers, and patients/customers; giving
and receiving on-the-job instructions; and discussing
CareerView Health Occupations combines a general job performance). While each unit contains vocabulary
essential-skills/soft-skills approach to employment specific to the employment sector, the workplace
preparation with contextualized instruction that communication skills are universal and portable soft
focuses on occupations, workplaces, and job skills—functional skills that apply across the full range of
responsibilities in the health employment sector. employment. Examples include giving and following
The course book contains three major sections: instructions, offering and asking for assistance,
Self-Exploration; Career and Academic Preparation; giving and responding to feedback and correction,
and My Career Journey.
coordinating tasks with co-workers, identifying and
Part A (Self-Exploration) focuses on the vocabulary and reporting problems, making recommendations, and
concepts of career exploration to help learners identify helping patients and customers.

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