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Advanced Learning Strategies: Skills for Success After High School
Advanced Learning Strategies: Skills for Success After High School
This course improves students' learning and personal-management skills, preparing them to make successful transitions to work, training, and/or post-secondary 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 post-secondary employment, training, and/or education choices and develop a plan to help them meet their learning and career goals.
Course Description
Course Description
The Learning Strategies course (GLE 3O/4O) is designed for learners identified with Learning Disability. in small classes, students with Individual Education Plans (IEPs) develop skills to improve learning and personal management which prepares them to make successful transitions to work, training, and/or post-secondary education destinations. Students will assess their learning abilities and use literacy, numeracy, research, and personal-management skills to maximize their learning. Students will investigate trends and resources to support their post-secondary employment, training, and/or education choices and develop a plan to help them meet their learning and career goals. This course helps students meet Ontario Catholic Graduate Expectations by enabling each student to become a self-directed, responsible, life-long learner who examines and reflects on one's personal values, abilities, and aspirations influencing life's choices and opportunities.
Areas of Study
Areas of Study
LEARNING SKILLS
By the end of this course, students will:
evaluate learning skills and strategies that contribute to success in various settings;
apply appropriate literacy and numeracy skills and strategies to maximize their learning while in secondary school and throughout their lives;
analyse their learning skills and styles to determine their learning strengths and needs, and develop strategies to maximize their learning while in secondary school throughout their lives.
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT
By the end of this course, students will:
identify and apply the personal-management skills and strategies that contribute to success in a variety of settings;
explain the impact of personal factors on achievement and apply strategies for personal improvement;
apply the interpersonal skills and strategies required to achieve success in reaching goals in a variety of settings.
EXPLORATION OF OPPORTUNITIES
By the end of this course, students will:
demonstrate knowledge of selected workplace trends in order to make decisions about post-secondary choices and pathways;
apply research and career-exploration strategies to identify post-secondary options;
identify and describe the learning environments and resources available to support life-long learning.
PREPARATION FOR TRANSITION & CHANGE
By the end of this course, students will:
evaluate their own transition skills and strategies and identify those requiring improvement;
demonstrate the skills and strategies needed to prepare for the work search process;
demonstrate effective use of decision-making, goal-setting, and action-planning skills and strategies to prepare for transition to their first post-secondary destination.
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