Course+Outline

Course Description
This course provides students with opportunities to develop the workplace essential skills and work habits required for success in all types of workplaces. Students will explore occupations and careers of interest through participation in real workplace experiences. They will make plans for continued learning and work, work with others to design learning experiences, and investigate the resources and support required to make a smooth transition to their postsecondary destination.

Overall Expectations:
By the end of the course, students will:
 * Demonstrate an understanding of the workplace essential skills necessary for success in life, school, and work
 * Plan for, assess and document their ongoing development of selected workplace essential skills
 * Identify and describe their interests, skills, personal characteristics and achievements using a variety of assessment strategies and use this information to determine future goals
 * Demonstrate and understanding of the effective use of the personal management skills, traits, and characteristics that would contribute to success in their selected postsecondary destinations and independent adult life
 * Describe the elements of effective interpersonal relations and teamwork that contribute to success in postsecondary education and training, work and community activities
 * Demonstrate the ability to use effective interpersonal and teamwork skills in a community-based learning activity
 * Identify ways in which they can make a contribution to their communities and ways in which the community can assist them
 * Use print, electronic, and human resources effectively to find and make use of relevant information about work and learning opportunities
 * Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of selected fields of work and selected occupations
 * Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of selected postsecondary education and training options, scholarships, and financial assistance opportunities.

Units of Study
Unit 1-Personal Discovery <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Unit 2-Charting Your Future <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Unit 3-Developing Your Skills <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Unit 4-Effective Communication <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Unit 5-Financial Literacy and Finding Your Own Way <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Unit 6-Culminating Assignment

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Grading Breakdown
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Knowledge and Understanding 25% <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Thinking/Inquiry 25% <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Applications 25% <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Communication 25%

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Term Work 70% <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Culminating Activity 30% || || || ||