CAREER LIFE CONNECTIONS (CLC) 12 Session #1 Mr. Kwan Ms. Kuang
8 Credits are dedicated to Career Education and are required for graduation! Career-Life Education (CLE) (Formerly Planning 10) – 4 credits Career Education – Career-Life Connections (CLC) 11 – 2 credits Secondary Years Career-Life Connections (CLC) 12 – 2 credits In term 1 and 2 you will be given a progress report. In term 3 you will receive a final letter grade for CLC 12
Finances Future Where to go for post- secondary? Career Choices Perplexing Questions
• Not a matter of making just one major decision and living with it for a lifetime. • Recognize your evolving interests and CLC Supports strengths, refine your learning goals. Purposeful • Exploration of post graduation possibilities Career-Life in diverse education, work-related and personal life contexts. Development • Able to advance toward who and how you want to be in the world.
Learning Goals For CLC 12
CLC GRADUATION PROJECT What you need to know!
• The CLC Graduation Project is the culminating project for CLC 12. This is an opportunity for you to extend your career- life knowledge, stretch your potential, What is the challenge your abilities and share your CLC learning. Graduation • The GOAL is to develop/build a skill in a Project career area of interest. (Capstone)? • The project should be something you value, care about, or find interest in. Only then will it be meaningful and purposeful.
Graduation Project Overview Process Presentation Final Proposal o The Proposal o The Process o One-on-one formal outlines your involves in-depth presentation of the chosen project and investigation and end result of your goals for skill exploration of your project o Presentation can building, timeline, project. o Mentorship resources. take on different o Min. 5 artifacts forms o Core competency reflections
There are 3 Key Learning Goals of the Graduation Project: 1. SKILL 2. MENTORSHIP 3. CORE BUILDING OPPORTUNITY COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT
• The project will focus on building a skill in a career area of interest. You can explore developing a NEW skill or EXPAND on a skill you can do or have knowledge in. • Your Graduation Project can look like the following: service learning, volunteerism, shadowing/internship, fieldwork projects, Skill Building entrepreneurship, and passion projects • You will dedicate a minimum of 30 hours towards the skill development. This is be recorded in a Monthly Log Sheet. **** This does not include the time you spent documenting your work e.g. writing your Final Grad Project Proposal, the Final Grad Project Report or creating your presentation.
• As part of your CLC Graduation Project, you will be asked to find a mentor(s) to guide and support you through the completion of your project. Mentorship • Having a mentor can be a powerful and rewarding experience. Mentorship is a relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person.
• Your mentor will play an important role in helping you with career-life development e.g. planning, decision making, exposure to possibilities and finding opportunities • Your mentor should be an adult ( e.g. family member, community member) and must have some expertise or knowledge in the area you Mentorship are exploring for your CLC Graduation Project. • Mentorship Permission Form due Dec. 11 • You will be required to record the interactions you have with your mentor in a Monthly Log Sheet.
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Choosing a mentor isn’t necessarily a difficult task, but it should be something you put some thought into. When choosing a mentor here are some things to consider: Choosing A • Values : It is important to make sure your values Mentor align with the person you are considering as a potential mentor. This will help build a better relationship. • Communication : You want to make sure the person you have in mind can communicate with you in a way that is easy for you to understand.
• Willingness : This person must be willing to help and feel comfortable to readily share with you. • Expectations : Ensure you define what you are looking for in the mentorship so that you and Choosing A your potential mentor are on the same page , Mentor e.g. how much time you would like to meet with your mentor and how they can help you. • Personality : Finding someone with a complementary personality to yours can help better develop your mentorship.
• The core competencies are the set of intellectual, personal, and social skills that you as students need to develop in order to engage in deeper learning. • They encourage you to: Core o Look at things from different perspectives Competencies o To see the relationships between your learning in different subjects o Make connections to your previous learning and to your own experiences
You will be asked to complete a Core Competency self-assessment at the end of each term: For each term, you will need to choose one (1) Core Competency area to complete a self- assessment on: Communication OR Thinking OR Personal an Social
Project Possibilities Example 1: You are a hockey player and want to pursue playing hockey at a professional level (NHL). You want to develop your skating skills. o You can choose one area of skating to work on e.g. speed o Figure out a plan to improve on your skating speed, e.g. find a mentor such as a hockey coach to give you advice, training program o Rather than saying “I got faster at skating” you should measure how fast you skated in October and have a daily practice log to record your progress as we want to see quantifiable evidence.
Project Possibilities Example 2: You are interested in becoming an architect. You want to develop your drafting skills. • You can choose to learn how to use a specific drafting software. • You can find a mentor who is a specialist in this area that can teach you how to use the program. • You can log in the different modules you learnt. • Demonstrate your skill development by showcasing a drawing that you produced with the software.
Project Possibilities Example 3: You are interested in being a community worker for a non-profit organization e.g. Burnaby Neighborhood House. A great skill to have for this type of career is knowing how to and implementing event planning. • You can find a non-profit organization to volunteer/shadow. • You can discuss with the organization about upcoming events they are hosting and ask if there is a project you can help plan. • Documentation can be an activity log: such as record or meetings, planning time, event volunteer hours, time spent seeking for sponsorships. • You can showcase event pictures (some pictures should include yourself) or materials you used/created for the event as evidence during the presentation.
A good Graduation Project: Reflects your personal interest and passion in a certain career area. What does a Shows your process. Clearly communicates new learning. good Evolves over a period of time and is not Graduation rushed. Project look Shows the depth of your investigation into like? your chosen skill Clearly shows the amount of time and consideration you have put in to completing it. Shows networking/communication with your mentor.
Monthly Log Sheet • For October – February • Record of how you are using your 30 hours • Record of Mentorship meetings • Question about how your mentorship is going Graduation • Monthly log sheet needs to be submitted Project at the end of each month ( 5 in total ) Timeline
Monthly Log Sheet
Core competency Reflections for Term 1, Term 2 and Term 3 • Due at the end of each term Term 1: Nov. 20 th Term 2: Feb. 19 th Term 3: June 5 th Graduation Individual Meetings for Final Graduation Project Project Proposal Timeline • Starting Nov. 4 th • At this meeting you will need to bring with you a (Continued) HARDCOPY of your Final Graduation Project Proposal (still need to submit digital) • CLC 12 Meeting • January 15 8:45 am @ MJF Theatre
Preparation Meeting • Starting February 10th • In small groups, timeslots will be ASSIGNED to you. They will be posted outside the Career Programs Room (C103) and on the blog. Graduation • Will discuss presentation requirements Project Graduation Project Final Written Report Due Timeline • Due February 24th (Continued) Graduation Project Presentation Date • April 21 st – Presentation date for last names starting A – L • April 28 th – Presentation date for last names starting M - Z
• Minimum of 30 hours of time spent towards skill development/building • Check DUE DATES • Don’t fall behind on due dates • Remember to collect at least 5 artifacts as evidence to share during your final Key presentation Takeaways • Today’s PPT and Graduation Project FAQ will be posted to address your questions. ***Ultimate goal: Have a good presentation to demonstrate your learning!
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