This course gives students the opportunity to develop the skills, knowledge, and habits that will support them in their education and career/life planning. Students will learn about global work trends, and seek opportunities within the school and community to expand and strengthen their transferable skills and their ability to adapt to the changing world of work. On the basis of exploration, reflective practice, and decision-making processes, students will make connections between their skills, interests, and values and their postsecondary options, whether in apprenticeship training, college, community living, university, or the workplace. They will set goals and create a plan for their first postsecondary year. As part of their preparation for the future, they will learn about personal financial management – including the variety of saving and borrowing tools available to them and how to use them to their advantage – and develop a budget for their first year after secondary school.
By the end of this course, students develop the following skills in these different areas:
| 1. Developing the Skills, Strategies, and Habits Needed to Succeed | |
| 1.1 | Skills, Strategies, and Habits That Contribute to Success demonstrate an understanding of the skills, strategies, and habits that can contribute to success in the pursuit of educational and career/life opportunities and in the achievement of a healthy school/life/work balance. |
| 1.2 | Decision-Making Strategies and Goal Setting apply various decision-making strategies to help them set goals, reflecting on and documenting their goal-setting process. |
| 2. Exploring and Preparing for the World of Work | |
| 2.1 | Exploring Work Trends and the Importance of Transferable Skills demonstrate an understanding, based on research, of a variety of local and global trends related to work and employment, including the effect some of those trends have had on workers’ rights and responsibilities and on the role of transferable skills in career development today. |
| 2.2 | Preparing for Future Opportunities develop a personal profile based on an exploration of their interests, values, skills, strengths, and needs, and examine the range of factors that can influence their future education and career/life opportunities. |
| 2.3 | Identifying Possible Destinations and Pathways taking their personal profile into account, explore, research, and identify a few postsecondary destinations of interest, whether in apprenticeship training, college, community living, university, or the workplace, and investigate the secondary school pathways that lead to those destinations. |
| 3. Planning and Financial Management to Help Meet Postsecondary Goals | |
| 3.1 | Creating a Postsecondary Plan develop a plan for their first postsecondary year, whether in apprenticeship training, college, community living, university, or the workplace, and prepare a variety of materials for communicating their strengths and aspirations to prospective mentors, program administrators, employers, and/or investors. |
| 3.2 | Budgeting and Financial Management demonstrate an understanding of responsible management of financial resources and of services available to support their financial literacy as they prepare a budget for their first postsecondary year. |
| Time Allocated | Online/Offline Component | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Unit 1: It’s All About Me | ||
You will discover your interests, passion, skills, dislikes and likes. You will learn to apply your strength and develop your weakness. You will examine a range of factors that can help you decide on your future education and career/life opportunities. You will develop an understanding of current local and global trends related to work and employment, including the effect some of those trends have had on workers’ rights and responsibilities and on the role of transferable skills in career development today. You will investigate various topics on current educational opportunities available to you beyond secondary school. | 15 hours | Online |
| 2. Unit 2: Explore the Workplace and Job Market | ||
In this unit, you will start to build your own personal profile exploring multiple pathways to your life after high school. You will research and explore steps that you will need to accomplish to reach your goals. You will get the chance to meet a variety of industry experts, employers, entrepreneurs, and community organizations to engage with students. You will evaluate your options and plan for alternative plans that still can allow them to reach their goals. | 15 hours | Online |
| 3. Unit 3: My Plan | ||
You will learn how to make a resume, cover letter and public profiles to attract job opportunities in your specific career pathway. You will make plans for the first year after you graduate from high school. In exploring your pathway, you will assess the benefits of a variety of savings options and exploring planning tools available through financial institutions and other avenues. | 15 hours | Online |
| 4. Final Evaluation | ||
Final Project and Presentation | 10 hours | Online |
| Total | 55 Hours | |
This course is organized into a semester format. Lessons and activities will be presented to students via the internet. Synchronous lessons will be provided though live online teaching and lessons, and student to student discussion forums.
A variety of strategies will be used in the online delivery of this course. Instructional strategies will include but are not limited to:
Learning goals will be discussed at the beginning of each assignment and success criteria be provided to students. The success criteria are used to develop the assessment tools in this course, including rubrics and checklists.
A variety of assessment and evaluation methods, strategies and tools are required as appropriate to the expectation being assessed. These include diagnostic, formative and summative within the course and within each unit. We strictly follow the Ministry of Education’s Growing Success document.
Assessment FOR Learning and Assessment AS Learning is obtained through a variety of means, including the following:
Evidence of student achievement (assessment OF learning) is collected through ongoing observations of most consistent work, with consideration given to most recent work from various sources.
Assessment and evaluation in this course will be based on the provincial Ontario Curriculum expectations. Students will be provided with numerous and varied opportunities to demonstrate the full extent of their achievement. Categories of assessment and breakdowns are as follows:
A final grade will be determined as follows:
Students with special needs and English Language Learners will be provided with accommodation, including additional time, assistive technology and scribe where available. Teachers who are planning a program in this subject make an effort to take into account considerations for program planning that align with the Ontario Ministry of Education policy and initiatives in a number of important areas.
Learning Skills listed below are key to student success. Learning Skills are assessed independently of achievement and are determined through observation and participation. A checklist and student conference will be used to determine the level in each category.
This course will be entirely administered online, no materials are necessary.
$549.00
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