Components

STUDENT TEXT

ISBN: 017-620136-X

The 256-page, full-colour student text models, instructs and engages students in the career development process. Five thematic units focus on questions essential to that process:

Unit 1: Why Am I Doing This?
Unit 2: Who Am I?
Unit 3: What Is Out There For Me?
Unit 4: How Do I Get Where I Want to Go?
Unit 5: How Far Have I Come?

The text includes a variety of activities, including fictional stories, profiles, case studies, role-plays, interviews, research, and collaborative projects. Links to useful external resources are frequently made and related activities are available on the Career Studies 10 website. Each unit ends with summary questions organized according to the Achievement Chart categories outlined in the curriculum.

TEACHER'S RESOURCE

ISBN: 017-620137-8

The 450-page Teacher's Resource is designed to provide maximum support for the implementation of a new course and a new curriculum.

General Teacher Support includes:

• a section on integrating this course with Choices into Action, specifically with the Teacher Adviser Program and the Annual Education Plan
• assessment principles, planning support and reproducible tools (Note: these tools will also be available to customers in electronic form from the Career Studies 10 website.)
• accommodation strategies to meet the needs of the range of students taking this mandatory open course, as well as reproducible activity masters
• an annotated bibliography of useful background material, especially useful for teachers without broad experience in Guidance and Career Studies
• and much more.

Teaching Notes and Suggestions include:

• planning charts that identify expectations covered, target skills and knowledge, and assessment opportunities and tools
• estimated time required
• specific instructional strategies related to each lesson
• specific accommodation and assessment strategies
• expected responses to activity questions

Included in the binder are:

• Profile Desktop 2000, a CD-ROM that contains all the latest NOC information from the NOC Career Handbook, plus the latest Labour Market Information and salary data at your fingertips.
• ONWin CD-ROM, an overview of and navigational aid for the OntarioWorkInfoNET Web site (www.on.workinfonet.ca)
• a poster outlining all the NOC categories [check info]
• the new Conference Board of Canada Employability Skills brochure

CAREER WISE CD-ROM

ISBN: 017-620138-6 

This CD-ROM complements the program by providing fictional career development scenarios that students can work through. Students can test their own goal-setting and decision-making skills and, with feedback, help refine those skills. Ideal for independent learning. Includes ready-to-print activities.