BIG IDEAS
Big Ideas are the key understandings that students will achieve by the end of the course. These Big Ideas cover the following concepts:
Career-Life Development includes ongoing cycles of exploring, planning, reflecting, adapting and deciding.
Career-Life Decisions influence and are influenced by internal and external factors, included local and global trends.
Engaging in Networks and Reciprocal Relationships can guide and broaden career-life awareness and options.
A sense of purpose and career-life balance support Well-Being.
Lifelong learning and active citizenship foster Career-Life Opportunities for people and communities.
CORE COMPETENCIES
A Core Competency is a skill that all learners need to have to be successful in all aspects of their life. There are 6 core competencies: Communication, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Personal Awareness and Responsibility, Social Responsibility and Personal and Cultural Identity. Students will focus on these competencies throughout the Career Life Connections course.
CURRICULAR COMPETENCIES – Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Examine
Interact
Experience
Big Ideas are the key understandings that students will achieve by the end of the course. These Big Ideas cover the following concepts:
Career-Life Development includes ongoing cycles of exploring, planning, reflecting, adapting and deciding.
Career-Life Decisions influence and are influenced by internal and external factors, included local and global trends.
Engaging in Networks and Reciprocal Relationships can guide and broaden career-life awareness and options.
A sense of purpose and career-life balance support Well-Being.
Lifelong learning and active citizenship foster Career-Life Opportunities for people and communities.
CORE COMPETENCIES
A Core Competency is a skill that all learners need to have to be successful in all aspects of their life. There are 6 core competencies: Communication, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Personal Awareness and Responsibility, Social Responsibility and Personal and Cultural Identity. Students will focus on these competencies throughout the Career Life Connections course.
CURRICULAR COMPETENCIES – 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 in personal, education, and employments 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
- Reflect on experiences in school and out of school, assess development in the Core Competencies, and share highlights of their learning journey
- Design, assembly, and present a capstone