3. Experiential Learning and Career Exploration Activities

These opportunities are relevant to the sector and might include:

• one on one observation of a cooperative education student or a skilled artist/ musician/ cabinetmaker at a placement in the sector (job twinning).

• a one-or two-week work experience with an individual employed in the arts and culture sector.

• participation in the Limestone Skills Competition, provincial, or national Skills Canada Competition.

• attend an arts and culture sector trade show, conference, or art show

4. Reach Ahead Experiences

Some examples of Reach Ahead Experiences are:

• Apprenticeship: visiting an approved apprenticeship delivery agent in the sector

• College: visiting a college with a sector specific program

• University: visiting a university with a sector specfic program

• Workplace: interviewing an employer in the sector

For current opportunities please follow the link below

5. Cooperative Education (Coop)

Cooperative education provides secondary school students with a wide range of rigorous learning opportunities connected to communities outside the school. It is designed to recognize and respond to the diversity of Ontario’s student population, and it can engage all students. In cooperative education, students learn in safe, culturally responsive environments in the community, and they are actively involved in determining what they learn, how they learn, when and where they learn, and how they demonstrate their learning.

Students must complete a minimum 2 credit coop in a related course. This can include summer coop and paid coop placements. Summer coop can happen immediately after a student completes Grade 10. A student becomes a Grade 11 student July 1st after they complete Grade 10. Summer coop is a very good option for students who worry that they won't have room in their timetable in Grade 11 or 12 to take two credits of coop.

For more information follow the link below.