Student Success Statement

"There is no giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps."

ANON

Reflection: This means that you can't achieve something by taking a big step and just passing all the little things. You need to do every small step to make sure that your goal is achieved. If you want to be a teacher you can't just say one day "I want to be a teacher". You have to work hard and have the qualifications to become a teacher.

Recreation Therapist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Recreational therapists, also referred to as therapeutic recreation specialists, provide treatment services and recreation activities for individuals with disabilities or illnesses. Using a variety of techniques, including arts and crafts, animals, sports, games, dance and movement, drama, music, and community outings, therapists improve and maintain the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of their clients.Therapists help individuals reduce depression, stress, and anxiety; recover basic motor functioning and reasoning abilities; build confidence; and socialize effectively so that they can enjoy greater independence and reduce or eliminate the effects of their illness or disability. In addition, therapists help people with disabilities integrate into the community by teaching them how to use community resources and recreational activities.

Salary: $48,372

Education:

Completion of a Bachelor's degree or higher, Completion of recreation therapy coursework and related areas One year paid work experience in recreation therapy under the supervision of a CTRS , or  5 years full time paid experience in recreation therapy. Successful completion of the CTRS certification Exam. 

Responsible

1. Clean your house
2. Do HW on time
3. Get to school on time
4. Do your chores
5. Sleep
6. Wake up on time

Irresponsible

1. Wake up late
2. Get to school late
3. Forget to do your chores
4. Turn your HW in late
5. Disrespect the teacher
6. Get in fights.

Student Success Statement

"The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon:

self-respect, dignity,integrity, and self-esteem."

Dr.Laura Schlessinger

Reflection: This means that if you choose to do the right thing you might not get rewarded with money or things like that but you will get your own reward. A reward such as a guilt free conscience. 

Psychologist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Psychologists study the behavior and actions of people to understand, explain, and change their behavior patterns.  They also provide counseling and therapy to those with emotional, learning, and behavior problems.  Psychologists work in schools, clinics, hospitals, and private practice.  They can specialize in clinical, educational, quantitative, developmental, social, experimental, and industrial-organizational psychology.  Their duties often include:

Diagnosing and treating problems.

Interviewing and observing patients.

Developing, selecting, and administering tests.

Counseling patients, groups, and families.

Developing mental health programs.

Conducting research and teaching.

Average Salary:  $45,000 - $65,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should prepare for a career in psychology by taking the most challenging (AP or IB) high school courses available, especially in English and science.

Licensed psychologists must earn a Ph.D. in psychology.  Admission to graduate programs is usually dependent on the quality of undergraduate performance in a psychology major.  Clinical psychologists must complete a two-year supervised internship after earning their doctorate and pass oral and written state qualifying exams.

School psychologists must earn at least a master's degree

Student Success Statement

"Right is right only when entire."

Victor Hugo

Reflection: If you are missing something or someone in your life or even if you haven't fully completed your goals then life is not right.

Student Success Statement

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased."

Ralph waldo Emerson

Reflection: When something seems impossible just keep attempting to fulfill it, perseverance is the key to life.

Psychiatrist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Psychiatrists are physicians who specialize in the problems of mental illness.  As physicians, they are licensed to use a vary wide variety of treatment and may write prescriptions.  Psychiatrists may work for the government, have their own private practice, or work in hospitals, clinics, or universities.  Their duties include:

Designing treatment programs.

Conducting psychotherapy sessions.

Prescribing potent mental illness drugs.

Supervising electrotherapy treatments.

Conducting research.

Leading a team of mental health care providers.

Average Salary:  $90,000 - $200,000

Educational Requirements:

In addition to completing the requirements for a degree in allopathic or osteopathic medicine,  psychiatrists must complete an intensive three year residency in psychiatry.

I would not like to do this job because I find it boring.

When You Tell One Lie

Paul Hatch

When you tell one lie, it leads to another
So you tell two lies to cover each other
Then you tell three lies and, Oh Brother,
You're in trouble up to your ears!

So you tell four lies to try to protect you
Then you tell five lies so folks won't suspect you
Then you tell six lies and you'll collect
A life filled with worries and fears

'Cause you can't remember how many lies you've told
And half the things you say aren't true
And sometime you'll slip up, you'll trip up and then
Whatever will become of you?

So you lie and lie without even trying
And each lie you tell will keep multiplying
'Till the whole wide world will know you're lying
Then you'll be
Suspected

Detected

Rejected

Neglected

Disliked

And you should!

When you lie, you;re closing the door

On everything good

Student Success Statement

"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have."

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Reflection: This means that the things you have do not make up the kind of person you are, its all about the things you do that show whether you are a good person or not.

Psychiatric Aide

Duties and Responsibilities:

Psychiatric aides take care of all the physical or mental needs of a person.  They have to make beds,  serve meals, and help patients dress, eat, and bathe, if necessary. Assessing vital signs, administering medications, collecting specimens and blood samples, serving meals and feeding patients that need support and/or assistance. Organizing, directing and encouraging patients to participate in educational, social and recreational activities. Providing intake services to patients entering treatment.

Salary: $43,430 - $81,063

Educational Requirements:

Methods, techniques, principles and procedures needed for diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of mental and/or physical disorders and disabilities. Important therapeutic policies, equipment procedures, techniques, methods and strategies when treating mentally ill and/or emotionally disturbed patients. How to assess patient needs.

Reflection: I would not like to do this job because I don’t like working with sick people.

Student Success Statement

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in DETERMINATION."

Tommy Lasorda

Reflection: This means that nothing is impossible if you are determined to do what you want to do. How far you go in life depends on how far you are willing to go.

Pharmacy Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:

Pharmacy Technicians work in pharmacies under the direction of a pharmacist.  Their main responsibility is filling prescriptions according to doctors' orders for patients.  Technicians measure out correct amounts of medication from larger containers to prescription size containers.  In addition, they add drugs to intravenous solutions.  All of their prescription filling work is rechecked by a pharmacist before medications are dispensed to patients or customers.  Other duties of pharmacy technicians are:

Checking inventories and ordering supplies.

Receiving and checking in supplies.

Waiting  on customers.

Keeping pharmacy work areas clean.

Helping fill out insurance forms.

Pharmacy technicians work in retail pharmacies, hospitals, clinics, and some large industrial complexes.

Average Salary:  $15,000 - $25,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take math, science (especially chemistry), and typing courses in high school.

A high school diploma is usually required to begin pharmacy technician training.  Two year courses leading to certificates are available at most community collages.  Six month programs are offered at privately operated schools.

I would like to do this job because it is a simple job yet you are still making a change in a persons life.

Student Success Statement

"Go Confidently in the direction of your dreams, Live the life you have imagined."

Henry David Thoreau

Reflection: This means to go for your goals without fears only with strong force and ambition to make these dreams of yours come true.

Pharmacist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Pharmacists compound, or prepare, prescriptions written by physicians, dentists, and other practitioners.  They review these prescriptions to validate their accuracy and then prepare the medication.  This can involve weighing, measuring, and mixing drugs.  Once the compounds are prepared, pharmacists then dispense them to customers and patients.

Pharmacists answer patients' and customers' questions about the drugs they are taking and drugs which can be sold over the counter.  In some cases, pharmacists are responsible for taking inventory of the drugs on the shelves and ordering any which they are low on.

                                                                                                                             

Pharmacists work in hospitals, clinics, health departments, universities, and grocery, drug, and discount stores.  Those who work in stores must be aware of the other health supplies available in the store so they do not direct customers in the wrong direction.

Average Salary:  $33,000 - $51,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take the most challenging high school classes (including AP or IB) available in English, science, and math.

All pharmacists must graduate from a college of pharmacy.  Most pharmacy schools require applicants to take the Pharmacy College Admissions Test (P-CAT), and some require up to two years of pre-pharmacy education.  Other colleges will admit students directly from high school.

I would like to do this job because it is any easy job to do.