Unit 1 - World of Work

Lesson 1.5 - Keys of Success - What does it take to be "successful"?

A1.1 demonstrate an understanding of the importance of resilience and perseverance in school, life, and work – why it is helpful to acquire skills for adapting to change, persevering in the face of adversity, learning from mistakes, and thinking positively about setbacks – and analyse how developing resilience and perseverance can help them in all areas of their lives

Today we will explore what you can do to be successful in the world of work. This is generally focused on traits and attitude.

Step 1 - Finish Assignment 1

Step 2 - Discussion about traits of successful people:

Prompt: What kinds of traits, skills, and attitudes do successful people have?

Step 3 - View Google slides examining High Five Principles of Success

Step 4 - View Video and complete GLC2O 1.5 - Keys of Success - Student Reflection

Lesson 1.4 - Decision Making Methods and Setting Goals

Good day travelers.

Today we are going to learn about workplace safety and injuries. This lesson comes with a caution (emailed home this morning as well) due to graphic content depicting injuries that can occur at the workplace.

Step 1 - Review the last lesson - Create the ideal company challenge.

Step 2 - Introduction to DECISION MAKING - How do you make decisions? Class brainstorm.

Step 3 - Review note - 1.4 - Decision Making Methods and Setting Goals

Step 4 - View Decision Making Video

Step 5 - Student Task - 1.4 - Decisions In Life - Student Task

Lesson 1.3 - Work / Life Balance and Benefits

A1.2 identify a range of strategies to help manage stress and achieve and maintain a healthy school/life/work balance, and explain how they have used such strategies in their lives so far and how they might apply them in the future
A2.1 apply various decision-making strategies as they set personal, social, educational, and career/life goals, then evaluate and revise those goals based on what they learn about themselves during this course

B1.1 identify some recent and evolving technological, economic, and social trends that have influenced the world of work, both locally and globally, noting their impact on the kind of work we do and how we do it as well as on workers’ rights and responsibilities, and analyse the possible impact of those trends on their own choices now and in the future

Hello folks,

Today we will continue learning about what makes a career. This time we will focus on Work / Life Balance and Benefits.

Learning Goals:

• Understand the concept of work/life balance.

• Understand how you will divide your time.

• Understand the importance of benefits at work.

TIMING - LIKELY TWO PERIODS DEPENDING.

Part 1 - Review from the last class - If I am absent this will be time to get organized for the lesson.

Part 2 - Google Slides - We will review the slides and complete a work-life balance analysis based on our own lives.

Part 3 - Review Work-Life Balance Articles - We will explore how employers improve the lives of their employees and as a result can improve their work-life balance. We will highlight the most important concepts and then explore them in our own post-secondary planning.

Part 4 - Complete the reflection questions at the end of the slides.

Day 1 - What Makes a Career - REALITY CHECK OF COST OF LIVING...

1 - Review the last lesson. Careers brainstorm.

2 - Progress through slides. Instruction are in slides.

3 - Stop at Slide 9 - Students complete Last Question - Exit Card

Part 1 - Introduction Discussion and Google Slide Show - Welcome to Careers

Part 2 - A Bit About Me - We will stop partway through the slides in order to complete a short survey about yourself. This survey will serve as a starting foundation for who you are and may be used to plan where you want to go (in life).

Part 3 - Future Lifestyle Worksheet - We will likely not be using the colour coding system for this task (unless you have software that will work). Instead, we will use a numbering system where 1 = not really important, 2 = somewhat important, 3 = Really important.