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Prescribed Learning Outcomes
Suggested Instructional Strategies
Suggested Assessment Strategies
Recommended Learning Resources

It is expected that students will:

• assume responsibility for revising their Student Learning Plans to reflect changes in their educational, career, and personal goals
• collect from family and other sources information and advice related to their educational, career, and personal goals
• reassess their strengths, interests, aptitudes, and values
• set short-term goals and evaluate long-term goals, revising as necessary
• describe various approaches to planning
• consistently apply study skills and time-management techniques to attain the goals in their Student Learning Plans
• evaluate their achievement of educational, career, and personal goals
• revise strategies for achieving goals, in response to change

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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• Invite local postsecondary representatives to speak to students and parents about programs and entrance requirements. Ask students to summarize the information presented.
• Have students create video, magazine, or poster advertisements that depict their strengths and interests, focussing especially on those they feel have evolved over the past year.
• Review the attributes of good short- or long-term goals. Ask students to critique the goals they set in Grade 9 on the basis of these criteria and adjust or reaffirm goals and action plans.
• Ask students to record the process required to complete one of their major assignments. Their records should include the date on which it was assigned; the amounts of time spent on research, composition, and revision; and dates on which drafts were completed. Have students review their process records and identify approaches that worked well and those that needed improvement.
• Suggest that students prepare strategies to achieve their educational goals and identify any potential obstacles. Have them identify factors that affect goal achievement (e.g., course marks, extra-curricular activities, changes in family roles) and show how these have been addressed in their own strategies.
• Use a short video clip to present a situation in which a character encounters unforeseen obstacles that affect his or her goal achievement. Have students suggest options available to the character as well as possible outcomes.

• As students research the educational requirements for career paths they might be interested in and revise their Student Learning Plans accordingly, note the extent to which they are able to:
  • access relevant information from a variety of sources
  • identify necessary educational requirements and qualifications
  • identify courses they will need to take in high school, including any prerequisites
  • incorporate this information into their Student Learning Plans
• Ask students to self-assess their progress toward particular goals they are working on by answering the following questions:
  • What are the greatest challenges you are facing as you work toward this goal?
  • What alternative strategies have you used that you did not originally plan to use?
  • Why did you choose these particular strategies?
  • Has your goal changed in any way?
  • What changes would you make to your action plan at this point?
• Conference with students about any problems they are having in implementing their action plans. Note the extent to which they are able to:
  • identify the problems
  • gather relevant information, advice, or support
  • identify alternative strategies
  • revise their action plans
  • identify criteria for success
• As students discuss the obstacles encountered by a character from a story or video who is trying a reach a goal, note the extent to which they are able to:
  • identify the character's goal
  • list the obstacles to meeting the goal
  • describe strategies the character used to overcome the obstacles
  • suggest alternative strategies the character could have used

• B.C. Life Skills
• Heart Beats
• A New Leaf: Career Planning For The '90s
• Career Decision-Making System - Revised Canadian Edition
• Choices (Occupations and Education)
• Success in the Workplace
• Planning for Success
• Accelerate Your Learning
• Power Over Time

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