Co-op, Career Education & GLE

This half-credit course teaches students how to develop and achieve personal goals for future learning, work, and community involvement. Students will assess their interests, skills, and characteristics and investigate current economic and workplace trends, work opportunities, and ways to search for work. The course explores post-secondary learning and career options, prepares students for managing work and life transitions, and helps students focus on their goals through the development of a career plan.

Level: Open

Prerequisite: None

This half-credit course teaches students how to develop and achieve personal goals for future learning, work, and community involvement. Students will assess their interests, skills, and characteristics and investigate current economic and workplace trends, work opportunities, and ways to search for work. The course explores post-secondary learning and career options, prepares students for managing work and life transitions, and helps students focus on their goals through the development of a career plan.

Level: Open

Prerequisite: None

This course focuses on learning strategies to help students become better, more independent learners. Students will learn how to develop and apply literacy and numeracy skills, personal management skills, and interpersonal and teamwork skills to improve their learning and achievement in school, the workplace, and the community. The course helps students build confidence and motivation to pursue opportunities for success in secondary school and beyond.

Level: Open

Prerequisite: None

Cooperative education is a planned experiential learning program that allows students to gain valuable work experience within business, industry, research or community service organizations. Students who enter this experiential program will choose with the assistance of their guidance counsellor, cooperative education teacher or subject teacher, a related out-of-school course linked to a particular in-school course. The student participates in career exploration outside his/her home school while applying theory he or she has learned in the classroom within a workplace setting.

For successful completion of cooperative education courses, students must complete a classroom component and a work experience component at a placement. Admission to the cooperative education program may include a thorough review of a student’s interests and attendance record through an interview process.

Co-operative Education May Provide the Following Benefits:

• Practical work experience in areas that complement personal strengths, interests, and educational needs.

• Experience in a workplace not usually available to students prior to formal training.

• Confirm career decisions before starting post-secondary education.

• Establish contacts in the workplace for networking opportunities.

• Opportunity to develop marketable skills.

For further information, see your guidance counsellor.

This course improves students' learning and personal-management skills, preparing them to make successful transitions to work, training, and/or postsecondary education destinations. Students will assess their learning abilities and use literacy, numeracy, and research skills and personal-management techniques to maximize their learning. Students will investigate trends and resources to support their postsecondary employment, training, and/or education choices and develop a plan to help them meet their learning and career goals.

This course improves students' learning and personal-management skills, preparing them to make successful transitions to work, training, and/or postsecondary education destinations. Students will assess their learning abilities and use literacy, numeracy, and research skills and personal-management techniques to maximize their learning. Students will investigate trends and resources to support their postsecondary employment, training, and/or education choices and develop a plan to help them meet their learning and career goals.