Career Education 8

Core Competencies

Communicating
 
Collaborating
Critical and Reflective Thinking
 
Creative Thinking
Personal Awareness and Responsibility
 
Positive Personal and Cultural Identity
 
Social Awareness and Responsibility

Students are expected to know the following:

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Big Ideas

Big Ideas

Reflecting on our preferences and skills helps us identify the steps we need to take to achieve our career goals.
The value of work in our lives, communities, and society can be viewed from diverse perspectives.
Achieving our learning goals requires effort and perseverance.
Adapting to economic and labour market changes requires flexibility.
Our career paths reflect the personal, community, and educational choices we make.

Content

Learning Standards

Content

Personal Development
  • goal-setting strategies
  • self-assessment
    includes inventories of preferences, skills, personal attitudes values, and interests
    for career research
  • reflection
  • project management
    taking an idea, creating a plan (including timeline and resources), putting the plan into action, and reflecting on the process
Connections to Community
  • local and global needs and opportunities
    social justice, environmental stewardship, sustainability, effective use of resources, etc.
  • cultural and social awareness
  • factors affecting types of jobs in the community
  • career value of volunteering
Life and Career Plan
  • graduation requirements
  • role of mentors, family, community, school, and personal network in decision making
  • influence of technology in learning and working
  • workplace safety
    • hazard evaluation and control
    • rights and responsibilities of the worker
    • emergency procedures
  • role of community, school, personal network, and mentorship in career planning

Curricular Competency

Learning Standards

Curricular Competency

Use self-assessment and reflection to develop awareness of their strengths, preferences, and skills
Question self and others about how individual purposes and passions can support the needs of the local and global community when considering career choices
Recognize the impact of personal public identity
digital presence/footprint, diction, body language, representing self and communities
in the world of work
Demonstrate respect, collaboration, and inclusivity in working with others to solve problems
Recognize and explore diverse perspectives
question and challenge career perceptions and possible career paths and analyze the relationships between work, society, and the economy
on how work contributes to our community and society
Demonstrate safety skills and appreciate the importance of workplace safety
Set and achieve realistic learning goals with perseverance and resilience
Recognize the influence of curriculum choices and co-curricular activities on career paths
include direct to work, apprenticeships, college, or university
Appreciate the value of a network of resources and mentors
include parents, teachers, elders, coaches, extended family, other adults, or peers
to assist with career exploration
Question self and others about the role of family expectations and traditions, and of community needs in career choices
Apply a variety of research skills
interviewing, investigating, exploring, experiencing, etc.; learning can come from memory, history, and story
to expand their knowledge of diverse career possibilities and understand career clusters
a group of careers that share common skills and training
Explore volunteer and other new learning experiences that stimulate entrepreneurial
taking risks in order to create opportunities
and innovative
original, creative; taking an existing idea and making it better
thinking
Apply decision-making strategies to a life, work, or community problem and adjust the strategies to adapt to new situations