What will I learn?

 

 

The Education and Careers organizer includes the following topics:

  • Personal Interests and Attributes – how

    personal skills, knowledge, interests, aptitudes, and values relate to education and career planning

  • Post-Secondary Education and Training – education and training institutions and the programs and credentials they offer

  • Labour Market Information – career sectors, employment trends and prospects

  • Job Seeking and Job Keeping – employability skills, job-seeking strategies

  • Employment Standards and Workplace Safety – legal rights and responsibilities of employees and employers, strategies and guidelines for workplace safety

  • Support Networks and Resources – to support students in their education and career planning

  • Transition Plan – planning for pursuing and achieving their education and career goals 

 

 

The Health organizer includes the following topics:

• Healthy Living – factors affecting healthy

lifestyles
• Health Information – analysing health

information for relevance, accuracy, and bias • Healthy Relationships

− skills needed to build healthy relationships (e.g., communication, problem solving) and deal with unhealthy relationships

− safe and caring schools, preventing and responding to harassment and intimidation, and promoting diversity

• Health Decisions – long-term and short-term implications of a range of health issues for self and others, with a particular emphasis on

  • −  sexual decision making

  • −  HIV/AIDS

  • −  substance misuse

  • −  road safety 

 

The Finances organizer includes the following topics:

• Financial Literacy – budgeting, financial

products and services for pursuing education and career goals, credit and debt, and reporting personal income 

 

  • Costs of Education and Career Options – costs of various post-secondary education and career options, and sources of funding for each

  • Financial Plan – a preliminary plan to support education and career goals 

 

The Graduation Program organizer includes the following topics:

  • Course Requirements, Exams, and Focus Areas

    • −  required Graduation Program courses and ways of earning course credit

    • −  required and optional examinations in the Graduation Program

    • −  the eight Focus Areas and their relationship to career and education planning

  • Graduation Transitions