| Strand A. Developing the Skills, Strategies, and Habits Needed to Succeed | | | | | | |
| A1. Skills, Strategies, and Habits That Contribute to Success |
| Demonstrate an understanding of the skills, strategies, and habits that can contribute to success in the pursuit of educational and career/life opportunities and in the achievement of a healthy school/life/work balance. | | | | | |
| A1.1. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of resilience and perseverance in school, life, and work – why it is helpful to acquire skills for adapting to change, persevering in the face of adversity, learning from mistakes, and thinking positively about setbacks – and analyse how developing resilience and perseverance can help them in all areas of their lives. | Budget Game – Core Component
Lesson – Financial Resilience and Life Transitions
Lesson – Career Readiness & Workplace Relationships
Lesson – Planning Your Career Path | | | | | |
| A1.2. Identify a range of strategies to help manage stress and achieve and maintain a healthy school/life/work balance, and explain how they have used such strategies in their lives so far and how they might apply them in the future. | Budget Game – Core Component
Lesson – Financial Resilience and Life Transitions
Lesson – Break Free From Money Stress with a Budget
Lesson – Planning Your Career Path
Lesson – What Benefits to Look for in a Job Offer
Lesson – How to Prepare for Unexpected Expenses | | | | | |
| A2. Decision-Making Strategies and Goal Setting | Activity | Long-Term Game | Comprehensive Chapter | Short Lesson | Interactive Calculator | Graded Assessment |
| Apply various decision-making strategies to help them set goals, reflecting on and documenting their goal-setting process. | | | | | |
| A2.1. Apply various decision-making strategies as they set personal, social, educational, and career/life goals, then evaluate and revise those goals based on what they learn about themselves during this course. | Budget Game – Core Component
Lesson – What is Opportunity Cost
Lesson – Go to College or Start Working?
Lesson – Planning Your Career Path
Lesson – Career Development & Pathway Planning
Lesson – Achieve Financial Goals with a Spending Plan
Lesson – What is Comparative Advantage?
Lesson – Competitive Advantage | | | | | |
| A2.2. Reflect on and document the process of developing and revising goals, commenting on the effectiveness of the strategies they have used in the process and identifying areas where more work may be needed. | Lesson – Planning Your Career Path
Lesson – Career Readiness & Workplace Relationships
Lesson – Achieve Financial Goals with a Spending Plan | | | | | |
| Strand B. Exploring and Preparing for the World of Work | | | | | | |
| B1. Exploring Work Trends and the Importance of Transferable Skills | Activity | Long-Term Game | Comprehensive Chapter | Short Lesson | Interactive Calculator | Graded Assessment |
| Demonstrate an understanding, based on research, of a variety of local and global trends related to work and employment, including the effect some of those trends have had on workers’ rights and responsibilities and on the role of transferable skills in career development today. | | | | | |
| B1.1. Identify some recent and evolving technological, economic, and social trends that have influenced the world of work, both locally and globally, noting their impact on the kind of work we do and how we do it as well as on workers’ rights and responsibilities, and analyse the possible impact of those trends on their own choices now and in the future. | Lesson – Why Do Some Jobs Pay More Than Others?
Lesson – The Factory in Your Living Room
Lesson – How Healthy is Our Economy, Really?
Lesson – Workplace Rights, Safety, and Equity in Canada | | | | | |
| B1.2. Explain how transferable skills are developed through school, extracurricular, and/or community experiences, and analyse how they contribute to a person’s readiness for future educational, life, and work opportunities and to their career development. | Lesson – Are Internships Worth It?
Lesson – Go to College or Start Working?
Lesson – Planning Your Career Path
Lesson – Career Readiness & Workplace Relationships | | | | | |
| B1.3. Reflect on how the transferable skills they have developed so far have aided them in their learning and in life, and identify the skills that they may need to develop further. | Lesson – Planning Your Career Path
Lesson – Are Internships Worth It?
Lesson – Go to College or Start Working?
Lesson – Career Readiness & Workplace Relationships | | | | | |
| B2. Preparing for Future Opportunities | Activity | Long-Term Game | Comprehensive Chapter | Short Lesson | Interactive Calculator | Graded Assessment |
| Develop a personal profile based on an exploration of their interests, values, skills, strengths, and needs, and examine the range of factors that can influence their future education and career/life opportunities. | | | | | |
| B2.1. Investigate their own interests, values, skills (including transferable skills), strengths, and areas that require further development, documenting their insights in a personal profile. | Lesson – Planning Your Career Path
Lesson – Career Readiness & Workplace Relationships
Lesson – What is Comparative Advantage? | | | | | |
| B2.2. Identify factors and conditions other than an individual’s strengths, interests, and needs that inform education and career/life choices, and explain which of these factors may be influencing their own decisions. | Lesson – Go to College or Start Working?
Lesson – Paying for Post-Secondary Education in Canada
Lesson – Financial Resilience and Life Transitions
Lesson – Workplace Success, Safety & Employee Rights | | | | | |
| B2.3. Explain how digital media use and a social media presence can influence their education and career/life opportunities, while at the same time demonstrating an understanding of the importance of managing their personal information and protecting their privacy online. | Lesson – How to Spot a Scam in Canada
Lesson – How to Get Past Resume Software | | | | | |
| B2.4. Analyse the role of networking, including traditional and online social networking, in exploring and securing education and career/life opportunities. | Lesson – Go to College or Start Working?
Lesson – Are Internships Worth It?
Lesson – Career Development & Pathway Planning | | | | | |
| B3. Identifying Possible Destinations and Pathways | Activity | Long-Term Game | Comprehensive Chapter | Short Lesson | Interactive Calculator | Graded Assessment |
| Taking their personal profile into account, explore, research, and identify a few postsecondary destinations of interest, whether in apprenticeship training, college, community living, university, or the workplace, and investigate the secondary school pathways that lead to those destinations. | | | | | |
| B3.1. Use a research process to identify and compare a few postsecondary options that suit their aspirations, skills, interests, values, and personal circumstances. | Lesson – Planning Your Career Path
Lesson – Go to College or Start Working?
Lesson – Paying for Post-Secondary Education in Canada
Lesson – Career Development & Pathway Planning
Lesson – What is Entrepreneurship?
Lesson – Starting a Business 101 | | | | | |
| B3.2. Identify the pathways towards their preferred destinations, including the courses and/or specialized programs that lead to the destination and meet the requirements for a secondary school certificate or diploma, as well as the supports available at school and in the community that can enhance their secondary education. | Lesson – Planning Your Career Path
Lesson – Are Internships Worth It?
Lesson – Career Development & Pathway Planning | | | | | |
| Strand C. Planning and Financial Management to Help Meet Postsecondary Goals | | | | | | |
| C1. Creating a Postsecondary Plan | Activity | Long-Term Game | Comprehensive Chapter | Short Lesson | Interactive Calculator | Graded Assessment |
| Develop a plan for their first postsecondary year, whether in apprenticeship training, college, community living, university, or the workplace, and prepare a variety of materials for communicating their strengths and aspirations to prospective mentors, program administrators, employers, and/or investors. | | | | | |
| C1.1. Select and organize information related to the postsecondary options that best suit their specific interests, values, strengths, and aspirations to refine their goal(s) for their first postsecondary year. | Lesson – Planning Your Career Path
Lesson – Career Development & Pathway Planning
Lesson – Go to College or Start Working?
Lesson – Paying for Post-Secondary Education in Canada | | | | | |
| C1.2. Develop a plan that identifies steps and strategies for working towards their initial postsecondary goal(s), addressing potential opportunities and challenges. | Lesson – Career Development & Pathway Planning
Lesson – Achieve Financial Goals with a Spending Plan
Lesson – Financial Resilience and Life Transitions
Lesson – Competitive Advantage
Lesson – How to Plan for Business Success | | | | | |
| C1.3. Use effective and appropriate forms, media, and styles to communicate their skills, experience, and achievements to prospective mentors, program administrators, employers, community organizations, scholarship funders, or investors. | Lesson – How to Get Past Resume Software
Lesson – Acing Job Interviews
Lesson – Biggest Mistakes of Job Seekers
Lesson – Career Development & Pathway Planning
Lesson – Starting a Business 101
Lesson – How to Plan for Business Success
Lesson – Competitive Advantage | | | | | |
| C2. Budgeting and Financial Management | Activity | Long-Term Game | Comprehensive Chapter | Short Lesson | Interactive Calculator | Graded Assessment |
| Demonstrate an understanding of responsible management of financial resources and of services available to support their financial literacy as they prepare a budget for their first postsecondary year. | | | | | |
| C2.1. Describe fundamentals of financial responsibility, assessing the benefits of a variety of savings options and exploring planning tools available through financial institutions and other avenues. | Budget Game – Core Component
Lesson – #1 Rule for Building Wealth in Canada
Lesson – A Guide to Retiring in Canada
Lesson – Canadian Banking Essentials
Lesson – How to Spot a Scam in Canada
Lesson – Watch How Your Savings Could Grow (A lesson in compound interest)
Lesson – The Magic of Compound Interest | | | | | |
| C2.2. Compare different forms of borrowing and identify some of the risks and benefits associated with each. | Budget Game – Core Component
Lesson – A Beginner’s Guide to Borrowing Wisely
Lesson – How to Use Debt to Your Advantage
Lesson – What to Do When You Need Money Fast
Lesson – Paying for Post-Secondary Education in Canada
Lesson – Your Canadian Credit Report
Lesson – How Bankruptcy Ruins Your Credit
Lesson – Calculate the True Cost of Credit Card Debt
Lesson – Student Loan Repayment Calculator | | | | | |
| C2.3. Identify key considerations related to preparing a personal budget, and apply them in developing a budget for their first postsecondary year. | Budget Game – Core Component
Lesson – Break Free From Money Stress with a Budget
Lesson – Achieve Financial Goals with a Spending Plan
Lesson – Find Out Your Monthly Home Budget
Lesson – Proven Techniques to Stop Overspending
Lesson – How to Prepare for Unexpected Expenses
Lesson – Discretionary Expenses – Understanding Central Tendency
Lesson – How Canadian Taxes Impact Your Personal Finances
Lesson – The Basics of Filing Taxes in Canada
Lesson – Paycheck Variation Simulator
Lesson – Financial Resilience Simulator | | | | | |
