Careers

CAREER EDUCATION 9          (required)

 

This course will be covered outside the timetable and a grade assigned.

Topics include:

 

 

• Career-Life choices are made in a recurring cycle of planning, reflecting, adapting and deciding.
• Career-Life decisions are influenced by internal and external factors, including local and global trends.
• Cultivating networks and reciprocal relationships can support and broaden career-life awareness and options.
• Finding balance between personal and work life promotes well-being.
• LIfelong learning fosters Career-Life opportunities.

• Career-Life development:  mentorship, employability skills, leadership skills, collaboration skills, self-assessment, ways to represent themselves both personally and publicly and appropriate work behaviour.
• Connection to the community:  ways to contribute to the community and society that take cultural influences into consideration, value of volunteerism, taking different world views (diverse perspectives) and employment marketing strategies.
• Career-Life planning:  Career-Life development research, methods of organizing and maintaining authentic Career-Life evidence, decision making, innovative thinking, flexible planning and goal setting, financial planning, pre-graduation and post-graduation opportunities and local and global labour and market trends.

 

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE 12 A            (elective)  4 credits

 

Career Prep Work Experience 12 is a course offered to students outside of the regular timetable. This course is designed to expose students to different careers, develop practical skills, gain valuable networking connections and gain experience in areas of personal interest. In order to complete the course students must complete a minimum of 120 work experience hours. Hours are accumulated through paid work, volunteer activities, work placements, training courses or career exploration activities. The career centre offers flexibility and real life experiences to those students interested in getting a jump start on a career.

In order to be able to comfortably complete the required hours for XWE, it is recommended that students begin this course in their grade 10 school year.

 

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE 12 B            (elective)  4 credits

 

See course description for Work Experience 12A, but an additional 120 hours are required.

 

 

IDS (Independant Directed Study)           (elective)  1-4 credits

 

Combine your passion with your talent to earn up to four-course credits in Independent Directed Studies!

You can work with the IDS teacher to build your course, based on training that you wish to take locally, and at least one learning outcome from a Ministry-approved course. Example: create an outdoor education focus by combining other courses such as Wilderness First Aid, Swift Water Rescue, and C.O.R.E. hunter training to focus on the Outdoor Living 12 learning standard of demonstrating responsibility for personal safety and the safety of others.

 

Or you can pursue your learning to develop a project that meets at least one learning outcome from a senior Ministry-approved course. Examples: write and direct your play, design and conduct your science experiments, design and build a useful invention, or even create a documentary. Your project topic, subject to teacher approval, must meet the required 120 hours to fulfill the requirements of the course.

 

 

LDSS CAREER PROGRAMS