Career Life Education/Connections

Grade 10
Grade 11
Grade 12

Students on the New Graduation Program will meet the Career Education graduation requirement with:

  • Grade 10 – Career Life Education
  • Grade 11 – Career Life Connections A
  • Grade 12 – Career Life Connections B/Capstone

All courses are blended model courses; meaning they are not delivered during a regular block within the timetable, but using a combination of the following methods:

  • Online materials using Google Classroom and MyBlueprint
  • Career teacher support (by appointment or drop in)
  • Grade-specific assemblies
  • Post-secondary and career fairs
  • Mentor support
  • Capstone Fair

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Examine

  • Recognize personal worldviews and perspectives, and consider their
    influence on values, actions, and preferred futures
  • Analyze internal and external factors to inform personal career-life choices
    for post-graduation planning
  • Assess personal transferable skills, and identify strengths and those skills that require further refinement
  • Explore and evaluate personal strategies, including social, physical, and
    financial, to maintain well-being

Interact

  • Collaborate with a mentor to inform career-life development and exploration
  • Engage with personal, education, and employment networks to cultivate
    post-graduation resources and social capital
  • Create and critique personal and public profiles for self-advocacy and
    marketing purposes

Demonstrate and reflect on inclusive, respectful, and safe interactions in
multiple career-life contexts

Experience

  • Explore possibilities for preferred personal and education/employment futures, using creative and innovative thinking
  • Identify and apply preferred approaches to learning for ongoing career-life development and self-advocacy
  • Engage in, reflect on, and evaluate career-life exploration

Share

  • Reflect on experiences in school and out of school, assess development in the Core Competencies, and share highlights of their learning journey
  • Design, assemble, and present a capstone

Students are expected to know the following:

Personal career-life development

  • mentorship opportunities
  • competencies of the educated citizen
  • self-advocacy strategies
  • factors that shape personal identity and inform
    career-life choices
  • strategies for personal well-being and work-life balance
  • reflection strategies
  • employment marketing strategies
  • rights and regulations in the workplace, including safety

Connections with community

  • social capital and transferrable skills, including intercultural, leadership, and collaboration skills
  • career-life exploration
  • ways to represent themselves, including consideration
    of personal and public profiles, digital literacy,
    and citizenship

Career-life planning

  • self-assessment to achieve goals that advance preferred career-life futures
  • methods of organizing and maintaining authentic
    career-life evidence
  • career-life roles and transitions
  • diverse post-graduation possibilities, including personal, educational, and work options
  • labour market trends and local and global influences
    on career-life choices
  • post-graduation budget planning
  • capstone guidelines
  • approaches to showcasing the learning journey

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