Co-op, Guidance & Career Education

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

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.