This course teaches students the process of using critical and creative thinking skills when designing to meet specifications. It is a project based course, which allows students to receive credit for both ADST 9 and General Fine Arts 9. Starting with a guided project, students work through the stages of design and develop their final project for Careers 9. Then, in the second part of the course, students choose different design scenarios from a range of topic areas such as foods, textiles, marketing, music, drama, and art and apply the design process that they learned in the guided project to complete their chosen design scenarios. Most of these projects are linked to learning outcomes in the CORE academic Grade 9 subjects as well, so students may count their project work in Problem Solving by Design 9 for their academic courses, too. Students also have the option to earn tech certificates in Food Safe Level 1, Typing, and Coding. Finally, students may choose to design their own passion project if they wish. Previous students have designed and coded a computer game, designed and decorated a cake, designed and produced a music video, written and illustrated a children’s book, etc.
“A person’s career is considered their “journey” through life, and the Career Education curriculum offers students the opportunity to pursue this journey in personally meaningful and goal-oriented ways.
Career-life development with intent is the ongoing process of self-discovery, growth in competence, and learning from experiences in educational, work-related, and personal life contexts.”
Careers 8 requires students to complete this course so that other courses can open up on the dashboard. This assessment does count for marks and requires that the student gives their best effort.
Students are expected to follow the order of the course. One assignment builds upon another and must be followed in order to have success.
Career Education 9 builds on Career Education 8 and builds a strong foundation for BC Planning 10. Students will develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes, which will assist them in making informed decisions as they plan future education and career paths. In Career Education 9, students begin to explore the concepts of first impressions, begin to discover their skills, interests, motivations, personality and learning styles and then begin exploring careers in depth. They will also begin to discover key concepts in workplace safety and understand the importance of their digital footprint.
CLC is a senior level online course that continues the learning from Career Life Education. It focuses on applying personal career-life management knowledge, skills, and strategies to the one’s own personal life journey, and includes:
- A deeper connection to the First Peoples Principles of Learning
- A deeper examination of career-life concepts and self-knowledge to inform personal life- long learning choices and post-secondary plans
- Make connections to their local community, post-secondary education experiences, along with national and international career, service and education opportunities
- Engaging in a personalized learning opportunity of 30 hours, volunteer or paid, that is intended to expand and/or deepen student exposure to career-life possibilities, such as internships, volunteerism, employment, entrepreneurship and more
- From conception to final product, building and presenting a personalized capstone that celebrates the student’s learning journey and their next steps toward a meaningful future.
CLC is required under the 2018 Graduation Program.
Career Life Education (replacing BC Planning 10) is an important and useful course that teaches practical life skills and is a required course for all students in BC. Career Life Education emphasizes the practical nature of the course, giving students an opportunity to learn about the graduation program, job search skills and resume writing, and to produce a resume that can be used for finding a summer or part time job. Students also learn about safe work practices, budgeting for college, university or a personal goal, and creating a “life compass” to help in making healthy decisions. This course is delivered online and students are provided with handy entry windows for responses to questions or “upload” buttons for larger files.
Career Life Education 10 is required for 2004 Graduation Program.