Activities and Lessons

Skills for Success

The following resources can be integrated into your classroom practice to support important skill building for success in high school.

Here is a guide you might share with parents to support their engagement with this area:

A Parent's Guide to Transferable Skills

Supporting Mental Health and Well-Being in Your Classroom

Supporting Self-Care and Mental Wellness

Connecting Instructional Practice

Conversation Starters from SMHO

UGDSB Mental Health & Well-Being Hub

Any of the resources below can be copied, edited, and used with your students!

Setting SMART Goals - Guidance Corner

Study Skills and Habits (Guidance Corner)

Vision Board - Guidance Corner Copy

Innovate Re-Design Challenge

My Skill Book

As much as possible, support students in connecting the experiences they are having - inside and outside of school - with their developing skills and strengths.

You can share this slide deck with students to invite them to make these connections!

Career Exploration Opportunities : Scientists in Schools

Looking for an idea of how to make explict connections between what you are doing in a subject already and guidance programming? Consider this sample using the Spotlight Series from Scientists in Schools.

How To Create a Budget in myBlueprint

Financial Literacy Choice Board

myBlueprint Blog: Using myBlueprint to Teach Financial Literacy

Pathways Project: Exploring The Different Pathways Using myBlueprint

Exploring Volunteerism Choice Board - click, edit, and share!

Volunteering Visits - T. Hunter 2021

Teachers can use this slide deck to lead a lesson on Community Involvement Hours

Develop Skills of Reflection, Communication, Self-Advocacy, Critical Thinking, and Conflict Resolution through Protocols:

A Doc to Support Use of Protocols

Protocols

A slide deck to support conversations connected to teh four inquiry questions of career/life planning.

Babble Conversation Prompts to Get People Talking, Reflecting & Connecting

Use reflection and application strategies to support students making critical connections between what they are doing and the skills they are building. Click on either of the docs to the right for access to a variety of plug and play resources to support this!

Reflect Resources for Distance Learning - UGDSB

Apply Resources for Distance Learning - UGDSB

Check out these additional resources from Facing History:

Identity ChartsUse this graphic tool to help students consider the many factors that shape their own identity and that of groups, nations, and historical and literary figures.

Big Paper (Remote Learning)Use this strategy in remote settings to help students explore a topic in-depth, slow down their thinking, and focus on the views of others.

Café ConversationsStudents practice perspective-taking by representing the point of view of an assigned personality in a small-group discussion.

Give One, Get OneStudents seek out and share ideas and information with classmates through this cooperative learning strategy.