OUTLINE OF COURSE CONTENT
Units: | Titles: | Time: |
Unit 1 | Who Are You? | 9 hours |
Unit 2 | The Working World | 17 hours |
Unit 3 | Career Pathways | 10 hours |
Unit 4 | Job Ready and Habits for Success | 8 hours |
Unit 5 | Managing Finances | 6 hours |
Unit 6 | Culminating Project | 5 hours |
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| Total: | 55 hours |
Unit Overviews
Unit 1: Who Are You?
Time: 9 hours
In this unit, students will complete different personality and learning skills quizzes to determine their interests, strengths, weaknesses, and passions. They will explore issues of stress, resilience and perseverance in school, life and work and begin their thinking about their transferrable skills. Students will consider how these factors play into their post-secondary and career decisions as they begin the goal-settingprocess by using the SMART Goal strategy. They will complete tasks including portfolio pieces.
Unit 2: The Working World
Time: 17 hours
In this unit, students will investigate the working world and develop an understanding of the changing trends influencing the marketplace and what their rights, duties, responsibilities, and obligationsare in terms of the law. They will investigate the emergence of the STEM fields and revisit issues of transferrable skills. They will consider the importance of networking and their social media presence and how that may influence their future employability. Additionally, they will begin to think about issues around cost of living, earning an income, and budgeting and reflect on how their post-secondary choices may be determined by factors such as work-lifebalance, the gig economy, etc.
Unit 3: Career Pathways
Time: 10 hours
In this unit, students will investigate the variouspaths available to them in their futures. They will review the requirements ofOSSD, and explore workplace, apprenticeship, college, and university options.Other opportunities will be presented as well such as a gap year, military service, and part-time and remote learning. Research into current employment trends and forecasted position availability will help them to compare various options with previously noted interests. They will continue to develop a portfolio that reflects their interests and investigations into the working world. They will reflect on the importance of revising their goals as new information emerges.
Unit 4: Job Ready and Habits for Success
Time: 8 hours
In this unit, students will investigate the traits and habits that will set them up for success, and for a last time, look attransferrable skills. They will compare expert advice and compose aprofessional resume. They will continue to develop their portfolios to ultimately assist in their final tasks and post-secondary planning.
Unit 5: Managing Finances
Time: 6 hours
In this unit, students will consider how to create an effective budget to meet their short-term and long-term needs and issues surrounding financial security. They will consider the role of income,expenses, savings, investments, loans, etc. They will come to understand the dangers and benefits of compound interest and investigate different banking products.
Unit 6: Culminating Project
Time: 5 hours
In this unit students will use the information and knowledge they have gained through the portfolio tasks and course lessons todevelop a fully articulated post-secondary plan including a budget. They will also reflect on their overall learning in the course to demonstrate their understanding of the applications of course concepts and the necessity of goals, plans, healthy habits, budgets, and transferrable skills.
