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