Description
This Grade 10 Career Studies course helps students develop the skills, knowledge and habits needed for education and career/life planning. Students explore their interests, values and strengths, research pathways and postsecondary destinations, and develop financial-literacy skills.
What You’ll Learn
- Identify personal interests, values, strengths, needs and transferable skills.
- Develop resilience, stress-management strategies and habits that support school/life/work balance.
- Research local and global work trends, workers’ rights and responsibilities, and changing skill needs.
- Explore apprenticeship, college, community living, university and workplace destinations.
- Use decision-making strategies, goal setting and an Individual Pathways Plan to support future choices.
- Develop financial-literacy skills through saving, borrowing, financial services, budgeting and transition planning.
Skills You’ll Develop
- Self-assessment and personal profile development
- Career and labour-market research
- Decision-making, goal setting and transition planning
- Résumé, application-material and digital-portfolio development
- Budgeting, financial decision-making and financial literacy
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate skills, strategies and habits that support educational and career/life success and healthy balance.
- Apply decision-making strategies and document a goal-setting process.
- Research work trends, workers’ rights and responsibilities, and the importance of transferable skills.
- Develop a personal profile based on interests, values, skills, strengths and needs.
- Identify postsecondary destinations and investigate secondary-school pathways that lead to them.
- Develop a plan for the first postsecondary year and prepare materials that communicate strengths and aspirations.
- Demonstrate responsible financial management and prepare a budget for the first year after secondary school.
