The Career-Related Program at Central

Career Pathways

Health Sciences

Engineering

Computer Science

Culinary

Business

Film Production

Education

The Arts

Photography

Courses at OTC


The Career-Related Core

Personal and professional skills (PPS)

Personal and professional skills is designed for students to develop attitudes, skills and strategies to be applied to personal and professional situations and contexts now and in the future.

In this course the emphasis is on skills development for the workplace, as these are transferable and can be applied in a range of situations.


Reflective Project

The reflective project is an in-depth body of work produced over an extended period of time and submitted towards the end of the CP. Through a reflective project students identify, analyse, critically discuss and evaluate an ethical issue arising from their career-related studies.

The reflective project is intended to promote high-level research, writing and extended communication skills, intellectual discovery and creativity.


Service Learning

Service learning is the development and application of knowledge and skills towards meeting an identified and authentic community need.

In this research-based approach, students often undertake service initiatives related to topics studied previously in their academic disciplines, utilizing skills, understandings and values developed in these studies.


Earning the Career-Related Certificate

To obtain the IB Career-related Certificate, students must:

  • Complete at least 2 IB courses in the 6 subject areas

  • Take 2 Career-related Courses in the pathway:

    • minimum of one course in 11th grade, minimum of one course in 12th grade

    • career courses within the pathway.

  • Completion of Reflective Project (RP):

    • option 1--3,000 word essay investigating an ethical dilemma within the selected pathway

    • option 2--1,800 max word essay investigating an ethical dilemma within the selected pathway plus a project (7 minute film, interview with a person within the pathway, script writing, photo portfolio, design of an engineering project, a computer program, etc.

  • Complete and reflect on Service Learning experiences (SL):

    • 50 hours of service

    • can be in the school or outside the school as long as there is a supervisor to verify.

  • Language Development Portfolio (LDP) 50 hours of study in a language. This may be done in two ways:

    • Offered language course through SPS or Launch course (Spanish, French, Japanese, German, American Sign Language).

    • Self-directed study of a language not offered in a course through SPS.

  • The candidate has not received a penalty for academic misconduct from the Final Award Committee.