How We Are Teaching Career Life Ed Connections

How We Are Teaching Career Life Ed, Connections and the Capstone Project Presented by Randy Grey – SD 7, Courtenay - Comox Tanya Larkin – SD 62, Sooke Rob Griffith & Maria Soto – SD 64, Gulf Islands

Career Education 10 - 12 SD#71

Why career education needs to change What needs to be learned How are we going to do it

Why 1. Graduates are not prepared in present system. 2. Ministry has a new curriculum.

Career Survey, SD#71 110 responses, of that, 40 aged 18 to 25 25 in 25 to 35

What Career Life Education The content needs to be created.

Career Life Connections

Capstone Project In Career Life Connections, students will design, assemble, and present a capstone project to an audience to demonstrate personal learning and achievement (in and out-of-school), growth in the core competencies and a reflection on the postgraduation plan.

What needs to be learned at each grade? Relevance!

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Other free resources CFEE | Canadian Foundation for Econom Education

How The ministry has allocated 8 credits, grade 10 to 12. The curriculum needs to fit into these 3 grades. It would be nice to have the 8 credits divided into 4 x 2 credit courses. Otherwise challenging to carry partial course work over multiple grades.

How 2 x 4 credit courses

How Use spreadsheet to monitor student Career Experiences outside of school and over the 3 graduation years.

Delivery models: -Face to Face -Blended -Online We want to build the curriculum online, through D 2 L, then teachers have teaching resources for any of the 3 deliveries above.

Challenges ahead We need to build quality, current career education curriculum and resources. Staffing is important. Very few teachers have current career education knowledge, so a teacher would need to build skills in this curriculum area. Fluent computer skills are mandatory. Computer access daily is mandatory throughout the courses. It would be best to have at least one dedicated Career classroom, with computers or laptops, career resources. Desk space in Career office for the Career teachers to work on the online portion of job and connect with other career staff.

Expenses (based on a grad class of 250 students) Staffing is already funded by ministry of education through per block funding. Presently most districts do not allocate enough of this funding towards staffing for Career education. Example our district allocates. 23 FTE at a school that generates 1. 0 FTE PSI (Post Secondary Institution) and Train in Trades funding is on top of what the ministry of education gives to districts. Need computers: Dedicated computer lab would cost $50, 000 to set up, Laptop cart costs $15, 000. Career centre expenses, such as mileage, cell phone, office supplies, etc approx. $5, 000

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