California Career and Technical Education Standards

• HSMT.FS.5.3 Use critical thinking skills to make informed decisions and solve problems.
• HSMT.FS.8.2 Understand the concept and application of ethical and legal behavior consistent ...
• HSMT.FS.8.3 Understand the role of personal integrity and ethical behavior in the workplace.

California Academic Content Standards (Reinforced)

• ELA.9-10.LS.C.1.1 Formulate judgments about the ideas under discussion and support those judgments...
• ELA.9-10.R.CAGT.2.5 Extend ideas presented in primary or secondary sources through original analysis...3

• Group Work - Hooks / Set

  1.  I take attendance as the students enter the room and get seated.

  2.  On the white board I have the following assignment written down.  "Describe a Cultural Barrier that you have experienced with a peer, medical personnel, or a teacher and explain how this made you feel." 

  3.  I will instruct the class to work with the student seated next to them and each take turns explaining their experience.  I will also instruct the students to write down the Cultural Barrier that their partner shared and I will collect these.
• Whole Group Lecture - Lecture

  The students will take notes on the Powerpoint Presentation about eleven specific examples on how cultural differences may affect health care.  These notes will be turned in at the end of the unit on Culture and Health Care.

  • cultural impact on health care [ Download ] powerpoint presentation
• Review Race and Ethnicity Data - Lecture

  I review the various Ethic Groups in the United States, then California, then Santa Barbara and then in our high school.  Ideally, this information should come from our latest census results once publicized. 

  See the following Websites:

  United States:  www.census.gov

  California: www.cpehn.org/demochartdetail

  Santa Barbara:  santabarbra.areaconnect.com/statistics

  High School:  See school registrar for information
• Signs of Cultural Barriers - Closure

  The students will work in small groups of 4-5 students and use their notes.  Each group will be given the attached Worksheet on 5 signs of Cultural Barriers.  The groups will then describe a possible Cultural Barrier/Scenario for each of the 5 signs of Cultural Barriers.  The Worksheet will have an example scenario for each Cultural Barrier.  At the end of this activity, each group will share out the scenarios they developed.

  • cultural barrier worksheet [ Download ]