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What is SHSM?
What is SHSM?
The Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) Program is a specialized program that allows students to focus on a career path that matches their skills, interests, and talents while working towards their secondary school diploma. The program also helps students transition into their chosen path once they graduate. By taking a specific cluster of courses, students gain skills and knowledge related to the chosen field. This encourages students to focus their Secondary school education toward a career area of their choice. Students can earn a SHSM program accreditation no matter what their post secondary plans - apprenticeship training, college, university, or the workplace.
A SHSM can help students:
A SHSM can help students:
Get work experience related to their interests
Earn post secondary scholarships
Develop specialized knowledge and skills
Be recognized by employers
Customize their high school experience
Eam a Red Seal Diploma
Gain valuable certifications and training
Explore career goals in all pathways
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How do I earn a SHSM Designation?
Every student must complete five required components to earn a SHSM designation
Bundle of credits: A specified number of high school credits need to be earned including:
4 major credits in the identified sector in Grade 11 and Grade 12;
additional supporting credits in English and other relevant disciplines
(e.g., math, science, social science, or business studies); and
2 cooperative education credits related to the sector
Specified sector-recognized certifications and/or training courses: Compulsory and electives training certifications are provided. For example, all SHSM students receive Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Level C, Standard First Aid, and Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) generic instruction.
Experiential learning and career exploration activities: These experiences can include the following: job shadowing, job-twinning, work experience, field trips, and other workplace experiences for students to explore careers related to that sector
Reach-ahead experiences: This component allows students to experience learning in their intended post secondary destination and can range from a day of attendance at a college, a university, apprenticeship centre, or a workplace.to the completion of full courses (dual credit programs)
Sector-partnered contextualized experience: The SPCE component includes one of the following options:
Innovation Creativity and Entrepreneurship (ICE) training
Sector delivered contextualized coding
Sector delivered mathematical literacy
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