High School Block:

Career Connected Experiences 110

Whether you are planning a gap year, a once-in-a-lifetime summer experience or exploring opportunities beyond the classroom, this course will help you learn more about your personal and career pathway goals and discover non-traditional ways to experience life, learning and work. This course will explore local, provincial, national and international experiences and clarify how you may make the most of your time, money and energy while moving towards your preferred career pathway – you can expect to learn about building your resume, discovering new possibilities, earning money, seeing the world and/or developing a sense of confidence and independence.

There is an updated online course that aligns with this curriculum. Please visit the New Brunswick Virtual Learning Centre for access to support course planning. Educators can request a blended version of this course that provides all course content, learning activities, and assessments.

For Educators:

➔ PL Hub: Career Connected Learning

CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTS

Reflecting on My Strengths and Interests

  • Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
  • Dimensions of wellness
  • Place-based learning
  • New Brunswick Global Competencies
  • Providing meaningful academic choices
  • Role of community
  • Ownership in defining legacy
Exploring Potential Career Connected Pathways

  • Experiential learning
  • Experiential learning policy
  • Service learning
  • Problem-based learning
  • Labour Market Information (LMI)
  • Learning through travel
  • Financial literacy and wellness
  • Diversity and equity in the workplace
  • Using criteria to evaluate career connected opportunities
Creating Achievable Action Plans

  • Models of reflective thinking
  • MyBlueprint
  • Project planning
  • SMART goals
  • Mentorship: informal and formal
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GRADE 11

Strand: Reflecting on My Strengths and Interests

Big Idea: Reflecting on Who I Am and What I Want

Skill Descriptor: Assess personal strengths and interests that will guide career connected planning

Global Competencies: CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Self-assess global competency development using a variety of tools, including digital technology
  • Compose goals to guide achievements throughout the course
  • Analyze life experiences that have shaped identity, interests, and motivations
  • Compare self-assessment with AI-supported feedback to reflect on strengths, areas for growth and for bias

Big Idea: My Role In My Community

Skill Descriptor: Investigate the role of community in career connected experiences

Global Competencies: CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Identify different types of communities that you are a part of
  • Reflect on your contributions to your communities and explain what it means to have a positive impact on community
  • Compare the impact of extrinsic and intrinsic motivations on career pathway planning

Big Idea: Defining Legacy

Skill Descriptor: Examine the concept of legacy and how to connect career connected planning with legacy

Global Competencies: SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

  • Explore the concept of legacy and determine how it connects to career pathways
  • Identify social causes that you are passionate about
  • Explore how you can make a positive change
  • Practice new wellness strategies and assess impact on well-being, such as use of screen-time and digital wellness
  • Design and maintain a curated digital portfolio that reflects values, strengths, and interests

Strand: Exploring Potential Career Connected Pathways

Big Idea: Exploring Career Connected Possibilities

Skill Descriptor: Assess the range of career connected pathways

Global Competencies: CL, CTPS, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

  • Evaluate available career connected opportunities using reputable digital research tools and labour market platforms
  • Research a career connected pathway using multiple sources, including digital tools, and evaluate the credibility, bias, and completeness of the information gathered
  • Compare local and global career connected opportunities using digital tools to gather and organize information
  • Critically assess how AI-generated recommendations align with personally established criteria

Big Idea: Uncovering Potential Barriers and Discovering Supports

Skill Descriptor: Identify potential barriers in plans and supports in overcoming barriers

Global Competencies: CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Describe what barriers in career connected pathways can look like and what the root causes are
  • Research, with support from digital tools, supports available to help overcome financial barriers and discrimination

Big Idea: Evaluating My Opportunities

Skill Descriptor: Compose three specific career connected plans

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Research labour market information using digital tools to identify opportunities that match interests and skills and analyze reliability
  • Build multiple career connected plans that pursue a range of interests and local/global opportunities

Strand: Creating Achievable Action Plans

Big Idea: Goal Setting

Skill Descriptor: Explain the value of adjusting and iterating on career connected plans

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Compose SMART goals to carry out career connected plan

Big Idea: Identifying Support

Skill Descriptor: Explore the value of mentorship in career connected pathways

Global Competencies: CM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Identify potential mentors who can support career connected plans
  • Provide a peer actionable feedback on one of their plan’s
  • Synthesize previous reflections to write a “why statement”
  • Prepare and deliver a pitch using digital tools, recognizing the potential use of AI to refine structure or clarity while maintaining personal voice and authorship
  • Complete and iteratively refine career connected plans, incorporating feedback from peers, mentors, and AI-generated suggestions, and evaluating the impact of each on decision-making

Big Idea: Sharing What I’ve Learned

Skill Descriptor: Compose a portfolio to share goals, plans, and reflections

Global Competencies: CM, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Self-assess global competency development and identify how you have progressed through the course
  • Complete career connected plans that include iterations based on external feedback and internal discoveries
  • Curate and present a digital portfolio that showcases reflections, discoveries, and plans.
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