Preface: Using This Integrated Resource Package
Preface: Using This Integrated Resource Package
The Introduction
The Introduction provides general information about Career and Personal Planning 8 to 12, including special features and requirements. It also provides a rationale for teaching Career and Personal Planning 8 to 12 in BC schools.
Career and Personal Planning 8 to 12 Curriculum
The provincially prescribed curriculum for Career and Personal Planning 8 to 12 is structured in terms of curriculum organizers. The main body of this IRP consists of four columns of information for each organizer. These columns describe:
Learning outcome statements are content standards for the provincial education system. Prescribed learning outcomes set out the knowledge, enduring ideas, issues, concepts, skills, and attitudes for each subject. They are statements of what students are expected to know and be able to do in each grade. Learning outcomes are clearly stated and expressed in observable terms. All learning outcomes complete the stem: "It is expected that students will . . . . ". Outcome statements have been written to enable teachers to use their experience and professional judgment when planning and evaluating. The outcomes are benchmarks that will permit the use of criterion-referenced performance standards. It is expected that actual student performance will vary. Evaluation, reporting, and student placement with respect to these outcomes depend on the professional judgment of teachers, guided by provincial policy.
Suggested Instructional Strategies
Instruction involves the use of techniques, activities, and methods that can be employed to meet diverse student needs and to deliver the prescribed curriculum. Teachers are free to adapt the suggested instructional strategies or substitute others that will enable their students to achieve the prescribed learning outcomes. These strategies have been developed by specialist and generalist teachers to assist their colleagues; they are suggestions only.
Suggested Assessment Strategies
The assessment strategies suggest a variety of ways to gather information about student performance. Some assessment strategies relate to specific activities; others are general. These strategies have been developed by specialist and generalist teachers to assist their colleagues; they are suggestions only.
Provincially Recommended Learning Resources
Provincially recommended
learning resources are materials that have been reviewed and evaluated by BC
educators in collaboration with the Ministry of Education according to a stringent
set of criteria. These resources are organized as Grade Collections. A Grade
Collection is the format used to organize the provincially recommended learning
resources by grade and by curriculum organizer. It can be regarded as a "starter
set" of basic resources to deliver the curriculum. These resources are
typically materials suitable for student use, but they may also include information
primarily intended for teachers. Teachers and school districts are encouraged
to select those resources that they find most relevant and useful for their
students, and to supplement these with locally approved materials and resources
to meet specific
local needs.
The recommended resources
listed in the main body (fourth column) of this IRP are those that either present
comprehensive coverage of the learning outcomes of the particular curriculum
organizer or provide unique support to specific topics. Further information
about these recommended learning resources is found in Appendix B.
The Appendices
A series of appendices provides additional information about the curriculum, and further support for the teacher.
Appendix A lists
the curriculum organizers and the prescribed learning outcomes for each grade
for the curriculum.
Appendix B consists of general information on learning resources as well
as Grade Collection organizational charts and annotations for the provincially
recommended resources. New resources are evaluated and added to the Grade Collections
on a regular basis.
Appendix C contains assistance for teachers regarding provincial evaluation
and reporting policy. Prescribed learning outcomes have been used as the source
for samples of criterion-referenced evaluations.
Appendix D acknowledges the many people and organizations that have been
involved in the development of this IRP.
Revised: June 4, 2002
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