“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” 
Abraham Lincoln 

COURSE OUTLINE:

Today’s workplace needs graduates who can adapt to ongoing change in their lives and careers. In Career Life Connections 11/12 students discover that careers are not simply occupational destinations but a journey that involves lifelong planning and learning. Students are at the centre of their own learning, and essential learning is experienced in CLC 11/12 through meaningful interactions with community experts, highly focused research, real-life contexts, field studies and experiences outside the school environment. Options after high school are becoming increasingly varied and complex. The Career Education curriculum involves students in research, problem solving, and decision making relevant to career planning.  Students need opportunities to explore and research a multitude of education and career pathways. These pathways require graduates who can confidently self-direct, display initiative, set priorities, establish goals, and take responsibility for pursuing those goals in an ever-changing society. Students will develop curricular competencies related to: Self-Discovery, Career Exploration, Post-Secondary Education, Labour Markets, Finances, Health, and Emotional Well-being. The course culminates in an integrated post-graduation plan presented in the form of a Capstone Project.  
 ALL students are required to complete the Career Life Connections and the Capstone Project in order to graduate. NOTE: You MUST pass the capstone project in order to pass the coure. 

CORE COMPENTENCIES

COURSE BIG IDEAS

This course is designed to provide learning experiences for issues that affect you now and in your future, as well as develop your skills to be purposeful, confident decision-makers. The big ideas are: 

CURRICULAR COMPETENCIES
Students will develop the following competencies through their CLC course​

ASSESSMENT
Students are responsible for planning and creating work to satisfy the curricular competencies.

Assessment tools: self-evaluation of major projects, daily checks, sketchbook assignments and critiques.  A final mark will be generated after the student/teacher final portfolio interview.​

Student assessment will be based on the following:

Personal Career-Life Development (20%)

• Mentorship opportunities 
• Competencies of the educated citizen  
• Self-Advocacy strategies  
• Factors that shape personal identity and inform career-life choices 
• Strategies for personal well-being and work-life balance 
• Reflection strategies  
• Employment marketing strategies 
• Rights and regulations in the workplace, including safety

Connections With Community (5%)

• Social capital and transferrable skills, including intercultural, leadership, and collaboration skills 
• Career-life exploration
• Ways to represent themselves, including consideration of personal and public profiles, digital literacy, and citizenship 

 
 Career Life Planning (25%)

• Self-assessment to achieve goals that advance preferred career-life futures 
• Methods of organizing and maintaining authentic career-life evidence  
• Career-life roles and transitions  
• Diverse post-graduation possibilities, including personal, education, and work options – Consider multiple work 
• Labour market trends and local and global influences on career-life choices – may include cultural roles and  
• Post-graduation budget planning 
• Capstone guidelines 
• Approaches to showcasing the learning journey  

    
Capstone Project 50% 

• ​**Capstone Presentation Pass or Fail- Must complete the Capstone Presentation to Pass CLC** 

FRESHGRADE AND MYBLUEPRINT

I will be using FreshGrade and MyBluePrint to communicate student learning and assessment.  Students will be asked to document their work and complete self-assessment weekly.  Student can  access their FreshGrade account using their school district login credentials (ex. [email protected] and password).  Students should all have access to their MyBluePrint.  Students who don't, need the PEN number and see the Career Department to get access. Students will be able to use FreshGrade through the online portal (https://student.freshgrade.com/#connect​)or the FreshGrade Student App.  Parents will be sent an invite and will be able to see student assessment and assignments using the FreshGrade Parent online portal or FreshGrade Parent app.  ​

CLASS CELLPHONE POLICY

You can ONLY use your cellphones for research, work completion, documentation and assessment during class!  Student who break the rules will be warned first. If warnings do not work, and email home and phone privileges will be lost.  If it continues administration will be contacted.  We have a class set of iPads  available for students to use for research and FreshGrade. Do’s: You can listen to music (commit to a playlist/NO surfing for songs), take pictures of your work, work n assignments and look up resources.  Don’ts: Play games, call, text or message, use social media, and take selfies or pictures of other students in the class. ​

CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS

• BE ON TIME!  There will be consequences for students who have unexcused lates and absences.
• IF AWAY, students must make up missed work.  Classroom is open at lunch and after school. Visit the class website for missed lessons and sketchbook assignments. 
• The art classroom has the 10/10 rule! Students are not allowed to leave the classroom during the first or last 
  10 minutes of class.  
• Restroom, cafeteria and/or lockers... NO FOOD or beverages (unless it has a lid) in the classroom.  Students will NOT be allowed to leave the classroom to use the cafeteria or vending machines, as we have a NO FOOD policy in the art classroom during instructional time. Please plan accordingly if you required food or drink (special circumstances are an exception). Only one student may go to the restroom at a time.  Locker visits will be timed.
• Bring your supplies, be prepared to work at the start of class and do your BEST!
• No use of others ideas and writing as they are already the creation/idea/work of anothers.  The use of other people’s work is PLAGIARISM! 
• BE RESPECTFUL (of yourself and others) this includes: teachers, your peers and guests.
• Clean-up after yourself!