Subject
Grade
Concept/Content
Personal career-life development
- 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
Elaboration
Ongoing conversations focused on student needs, interests, and goals foster purposeful career-life development. The role of mentor is often performed by the Career-Life Connections educator.
see Core Competencies at https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/competencies
to communicate personal strengths, preferences, views, values, and interests with confidence
such as family expectations, personal awareness, culture, religion, gender, socio-economics
to explore strengths and areas for growth; passions, values, and aspirations; development in competencies; career-life explorations; and how these inform preferred futures
for example, resumé, cover letter, cold calls, social media, interviews, application forms, accessing employment networks
Young workers are at increased safety risk and may benefit from a review of:
- injury prevention and safety protocols, such as WHIMIS, PPE, safety training
- WorkSafeBC
- BC Employment Standards
- occupational health and safety rights and responsibilities
- harassment prevention
keywords
mentorship opportunities
competencies
self-advocacy strategies
factors
reflection
employment marketing
safety