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

It is expected that students will:

• assess their transferable skills and relate them to occupational and lifestyle choices
• apply research skills to acquire information related to job possibilities and career interests

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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• Ask students to draw timelines depicting their career interests from kindergarten to the present and into the future, highlighting significant changes.
• Have students complete a variety of self-assessments, exploring their personal needs, work preferences (e.g., rural or urban workplace; small or large workplace; structured work time, shift work, or flexible time), learning and working styles, salary expectations, motivations, and so on. Students could use resources such as computer software or job-search newspapers. Have them summarize their self-assessments and share highlights with partners or in small groups.
• Present co-operative problem-solving challenges in which students are asked to resolve differences and find win-win solutions. Ask students to assess the skills used in this activity.
• To enable students to meaningfully and confidently assess their skills, suggest that they conduct interviews in pairs to develop personal profiles.
• Assign or have students choose particular employer roles and have them write letters of reference for themselves from the characters' points of view. The letters should describe transferable skills that might be evident to such employers.
• Have students use their self-assessments and other resources to design their ideal careers. Focus questions could include:
• If you could have an ideal career, what would it be and why?
• Where would you like to be 10 years from now, and what would you like to be doing?
• Invite students to use print or electronic sources to research the educational and training requirements for their occupational interests. Have students with similar interests work in small groups to chart course paths to specific postsecondary programs.

• After students have identified their areas of interest, transferable skills, and work preferences, and have related these to occupational and lifestyle choices, look for evidence that they are able to:
  • be open and honest in their self-assessments
  • offer specific examples to support their assessments of their skills
  • recognize relevant strengths and areas for further development
  • identify how various skills are developed and improved
  • explain the interrelationship of some of the factors that influence their choices
• Have each student identify three personal research questions related to job possibilities and career interests. For each question, ask students to identify and access relevant sources, and record, organize, and summarize the information. Look for evidence that they are able to:
  • compose clear and focussed questions that address important aspects of their interests and plans
  • identify a wide variety of potential sources
  • make decisions about the relevance and credibility of various sources
  • show initiative, resourcefulness, and persistence in accessing the information they need
  • record and summarize the information clearly and accurately
  • answer their research questions with complete and detailed information
• Give students copies of the "Employability Skills Profile" developed by the Conference Board of Canada. After a class or small group discussion about the personal management skills identified in the profile, ask students to reflect on their personal management and teamwork skills by recording instances when they demonstrated each skill. Look for evidence that they:
  • describe each example clearly and in detail
  • make logical connections between the skill in question and the example they offer

• B.C. Life Skills
• Choices (Occupations and Education)
• Heart Beats
• Knowledge for Youth About Careers (CD-ROM Version)
• Success Test
• Take Hold of Your Future, Second Edition

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