Big Ideas
Big Ideas
Career-life choices are made in a recurring cycle of planning, reflecting, adapting, and deciding.
- Sample questions to support inquiry-based learning:
- How do we pursue open-ended career-life goals in a rapidly changing world?
- What tools and strategies can help us commit to short-term actions, while keeping us open to emerging possibilities?
- What evidence of learning both in school and out of school best represents development of our competencies?
Career-life decisions are influenced by internal and external
- Sample questions to support inquiry-based learning:
- How do self-awareness and knowledge of skills, talents, and challenges contribute to career-life choices?
- How can local contexts, including sense of place, inform our career-life role choices?
- In light of local and global trends, in what ways can we use our strengths, interests, and competencies to position ourselves for success?
for example, internal factors may include personal interests, abilities, and circumstances, and external factors may include place-based, community, and digital influences
factors, including local and global trends.
Cultivating networks and reciprocal relationships
- Sample questions to support inquiry-based learning:
- In what ways can our networks of family, peers, and community members help us develop confidence and initiative in career-life development?
- What communication and collaboration strategies can we use to broaden our networks?
- In what ways can we positively represent ourselves digitally in the global network?
with family, peers, and community members
can support and broaden career-life awareness and options.
Finding balance between personal and work life promotes well-being.
- Sample questions to support inquiry-based learning:
- What tools and strategies can help us maintain balance between our personal and work lives?
- In what ways can we approach career-life challenges and stressors to sustain a healthy balance?
- How can we use our knowledge about balance among many personal and work life roles to nurture our own well-being?
Lifelong learning fosters career-life opportunities.
- Sample questions to support inquiry-based learning:
- What habits of mind and attitudes help us develop as lifelong learners?
- As lifelong learners, how can we tap into our strengths, interests, and competencies when exploring potential career-life opportunities?
- How can we use experiences and reflection to foster our growth as lifelong learners?
Content
Learning Standards
Content
Career-life development
- mentorship opportunitiesOngoing conversations focused on student needs, interests, and goals foster purposeful career-life development.
The role of mentor is often performed by the Career-Life Education educator. - strategies for maintaining well-beingfor example, stress management, mindfulness practices, awareness of digital presence/footprint and how it can influence self-esteem and anxietyin personal and work life
- preferred ways of knowing and learningrecognizing what works for self and what works for others may be different; awareness of cultural influences, including traditional and contemporary First Peoples’ worldviews and cross-cultural perspectives
- competenciesSee Core Competencies at https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/competenciesof the educated citizen, employability skillsFor example, see https://www.conferenceboard.ca/spse/employability-skills.aspx, essential skills, leadership and collaboration skills
- self-assessment and reflection strategies
- ways to represent themselves both personally and publicly
- appropriate workplace behaviourand workplace safety
- including:
- respectful interactions
- work ethic
- appropriate use of technology
- workplace etiquette
- injury prevention and safety protocols, such as WHIMIS, PPE, safety training, WorkSafeBC
- BC Employment Standards
- occupational health and safety rights and responsibilities
- harassment prevention
- including:
Connections with community
- inclusive practices, including taking different worldviews
acknowledging the value of diversity (e.g., First Nations, Metis, and Inuit worldviews, gender, race, sexual orientation, diverse abilities, religious beliefs, anti-sexist and anti-racist practices); Reconciliation as a responsibility for all individuals
and diverse perspectivesparticular philosophies of life or conceptions of the world that underpin identity and how people interact with the world; for example, First Peoples, new immigrant, refugee, rural, urban, colonial, geocentric; see
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/education/administration/kindergarten-to-grade-12/indigenous-education/awp_moving_forward.pdfinto considerationattitudes of people according to their gender, race, sexual orientation, diverse abilities
- personal networkingand employment marketing
accessing support networks to continue exploring career-life opportunities; for example, family, school, community, peers
strategiesfor example, resumé, cover letter, cold calls, social media, interviews, application forms, accessing employment networks
- factors that both inform career-life choices and are influenced by them, including personal, environmental
- for example:
- family values, dynamics, and expectations
- friends
- community membership
, and land usefor example, climate change, impact on ecology, sustainability, stewardship
factorsrespectful consideration of First Peoples’ claims and rights, places of historical and social significance, legal considerations. The connection between people and place is foundational to First Peoples’ perspectives on the world.
- for example:
- ways to contribute to community and society that take cultural influencesinto consideration
on the nature of an individual’s contributions, roles, values, duties
- value of volunteerismfor self and community
for example, develops self-esteem, resilience, social responsibility, connections, and practical workplace skills and provides opportunities for service learning; contributes to community
Career-life planning
- career-life development researchrelated to diverse career-life roles; for example, post-graduation options, personal passions, work, family, education, volunteerism
- methodsincluding both digital and non-digital formats; for example, learning profile, portfolio, blog, anthology, archives, dossier, docket, journals, videosof organizing and maintaining authentic career-life evidence
- models of decision making and innovative thinking for flexible planning and goal setting
- financial planningfor example, budgeting for post-graduation career-life options and entrepreneurship; considering influence on work-life balance decisionstools, pre- and post-graduation opportunitiessuch as extracurricular activities, volunteerism, travel, passion projects; includes course and program selection related to post-graduation plans, and local and global labour and market trendsfor example, employment opportunities in many contexts, emerging opportunities, community needs, declining occupations, specialized training requirements
Curricular Competency
Learning Standards
Curricular Competency
Examine
Examine the influences of personal and public profiles
taking into consideration:
on career-life opportunities
- personal versus public contexts
- digital and face-to-face contexts
- various audiences being addressed
- social and peer group interactions and the potential loss or gain of reputation/opportunities/status
- the importance of both verbal and non-verbal communications in interviews and presentations
Identify risks
considering:
and appreciate benefits associated with personal and public digital footprints
- levels of privacy in social media
- what encompasses appropriate content
- permanency of digital uploads
- negative public images and their potential for loss of scholarships, employment, reputation, and social status
Consider the role of personal and employment networks
for example, among family members, friends; within religious organizations, local community, sports teams, local First Peoples’ community youth organizations
in exploring career-life opportunities
Interact
Apply a mentor
The role of a mentor is often performed by the Career-Life Education educator.Mentors play an important role in helping students with career-life development, including exposure to possibilities, planning, decision making, and finding emerging opportunities.
’s guidance in career-life exploration
Collaborate with supportive community
as determined by the passions, interests, and goals of the student; for example, educators, local First Peoples’ community leaders, family, local career-life professionals, apprenticeship/college/university students, and peers
members to explore the reciprocal influences how internal and external factors – including personal, social, economic, environmental, and global – interact to inform our choices
of career-life choices
Communicate with the intent to highlight personal strengths, talents, accomplishments, and abilities
Experience
Demonstrate inclusive, respectful, and safe interactions in diverse career-life environments
may include personal, community, education, and workplace contexts
Identify career-life challenges and opportunities, and generate and apply strategies
Explore and connect experiential learning both inside and outside of school with possible and preferred career-life pathways
Practise effective strategies for healthy school/work/life balance
Initiate
Explore and reflect on career-life roles
including personal, family, student, community, and employment
, personal growth, and initial planning for preferred career-life pathways
Develop preliminary profiles and flexible plans for career-life learning journeys