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What is Specialist High Skills Major?
What is Specialist High Skills Major?
"An SHSM is a ministry-approved specialized program that allows grade 11 and 12 students to focus their learning on a specific sector while meeting the requirements to graduate from secondary school. It also assists in their transition after graduation to apprenticeship training, college, university or the workplace."
Peel District School Board, https://www.peelschools.org/parents/programs/shsm/Pages/default.aspx
Specialist High Skills Major at The Woodlands School
Specialist High Skills Major at The Woodlands School
The Woodlands School offers THREE SHSM Programs:
Arts and Culture
Health and Wellness
Peel SHSM - Health and Wellness
Transportation
Arts and Culture
Arts and Culture
The Arts and Culture SHSM is a specialized program that incorporates the disciplines of Visual Art, Digital Media, Drama, Music, Social Studies, Cultural Studies, and Business. This program assists students in their transition from secondary school to apprenticeship training, college, university, or the workplace. The Arts and Culture program consists of a bundle of 8 credits, including 2 co-op credits. It also includes contextualized learning activities, sector-recognized certifications and training courses, experiential and reach ahead experiences related to chosen post-secondary pathways. In order to complete an SHSM in Arts and Culture, students must:
1. Complete a bundle of 8 specific courses;
2. Complete Sector Certifications and/or training programs;
3. Participate in experiential learning and career exploration activities within the sector (e.g. co-op work experience, job shadowing, job twinning);
4. Learn and document the industry Essential Skills and work habits using the Ontario Skills Passport;
5. Gain “Reach Ahead” experience connected to the student’s post-secondary plans.
Health and Wellness
Health and Wellness
The Health and Wellness SHSM is a specialized program that incorporates the disciplines of Health and Physical Education, Science, Social Sciences, and Humanities. This program assists students in their transition from secondary school to apprenticeship training, college, university, or the workplace. The Health and Wellness program consists of a bundle of 9 credits, including 2 co-op credits. It also includes contextualized learning activities, sector-recognized certifications and training courses, experiential learning activities and reach ahead experiences related to chosen post-secondary pathways. In order to complete a SHSM in Health and Wellness, students must:
1. Complete a bundle of 9 specific courses;
2. Complete Sector Certifications and/or training programs;
3. Participate in experiential learning and career exploration activities within the sector (e.g. co-op work experience, job shadowing, job twinning);
4. Learn and document the industry Essential Skills and work habits using the Ontario Skills Passport
5. Gain “Reach Ahead” experience connected to the student’s post-secondary plans.
Transportation
Transportation
Transportation affects our lives in a multitude of ways. We drive cars for everyday purposes, use mass transit to commute to work, and take flights and cruises on holidays. Transportation systems move raw materials to manufacturers and finished products to consumers – locally, nationally, and globally.
In addition to being essential to our daily lives, transportation and transportation systems are an important area of employment in our economy. Transport Canada’s Transportation in Canada 2008 reports that the industry provided work for approximately 900,000 people in 2008 and that employment in this sector has grown steadily since 2000, reflecting a high demand for qualified personnel.
The transportation major provides students with a strong foundation for a wide variety of careers in the transportation sector, from those focusing on the service, repair, and modification of vehicles and vehicle systems to those related to the organization and management of transportation services and mass-transit systems. Depending on local circumstances, this SHSM may be designed to have a particular focus.
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