High School Block:

Skills for Success 120

Research has identified key factors that impact learner success, such as parental involvement, teacher effectiveness, socioeconomic status, learner motivation and engagement. These factors can be seen as opportunities and-or challenges for the learner to becoming future ready, self-determined and capable as outlined in Portrait of a Learner. These factors are not specific to any one learning area but affect all learning opportunities and life demands.

Skills for Success 120 is an elective course for learners looking to develop key life skills to aid in success post-graduation. Skills for Success 120 will provide learners with skills in three main areas – positive and productive mindsets and behaviours, organizational patterns, as well as functional and critical literacy. Within the broad learning expectations of the course, specific success skills, strategies, and practices will be explored. Learners will be supported to apply and transfer these skills, strategies, and practices to other courses and real-life situations. Learners will learn how these skills support postgraduate pursuits.

CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTS

Habits for Success

  • Self-management
  • Building resiliency
  • Individual wellness
  • Community connections
Goal Setting

  • Growth mindset
  • Time management
  • Positive habits and behaviours
Life Skills

  • Digital literacy
  • Self-regulation strategies
  • Privacy and confidentiality
  • Organizational skills
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GRADE 12

Strand: Habits for Success

Big Idea: Planning for Success

Skill Descriptor: Apply personal strengths to real-life situations.

Global Competencies: CM, SASM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Identify own strengths and their characteristics
  • Evaluate factors that influence success based on personal and community values
  • Discuss how skills, knowledge, and abilities can be transferred to new settings
  • Target skills, knowledge and abilities for future improvement considering personal and community values
  • Label the influences that impact thinking

Skill Descriptor: Examine how mindset contributes to success

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Discuss fixed and growth mindset
  • Examine examples of fixed and growth mindset in Western and a variety of cultures
  • Reflect on and share how strengths and challenges influence success

Big Idea: Managing Challenges

Skill Descriptor: Determine strategies for resilience when facing disappointments and challenges.

Global Competencies: ICE, CM, CL, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Co-construct what success looks like from various cultural perspectives
  • Determine skills associated with success stories through a variety of lenses
  • Discuss ways to be resilient when experiencing unconscious and conscious biases
  • Demonstrate strategies to help with challenges to build resiliency
  • Examine a variety of positive stress-reduction strategies.
  • Self-assess own strengths and barriers when overcoming challenges

Skill Descriptor: Develop techniques for individual wellness.

Global Competencies: SASM, ICE, CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Define what it means to experience stress in daily life
  • Discuss how a Wabanaki community engagement approach can influence coping strategies for all Treaty Peoples
  • Examine the importance of cultural and community influences on individual wellness
  • Determine personal and community-based strategies to implement in a variety of stressful situations/interactions.
  • Engage with different cultural perceptions of stress
  • Appreciate how stress can be experienced differently through the lens of neurodiversity

Strand: Goal setting

Big Idea: Behaviour and Application

Skill Descriptor: Apply information about mindsets to personal success.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Explain the relationship between effort, perseverance, and success
  • Examine influences that impact the way that we think (e.g. differing perspectives, knowledge, culture, environment, identities)
  • Assess the positive influence of effort, strategies and persistence related to achieving goals

Skill Descriptor: Develop time management strategies.

Global Competencies: SASM, CTPS

Achievement Indicators:

  • Engage in creating a personal weekly schedule
  • Apply various time management tools
  • Determine effective time management strategies to balance academic and personal responsibilities
  • Evaluate tools and strategies regularly to adapt for success

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate how to improve habits and behaviours by setting and adapting achievable goals.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Discuss how short-term goals build up to long term success
  • Apply goal setting strategies in a variety of situations
  • Reflect on and adjust goals regularly based on individual long-term plans

Strand: Life Skills

Big Idea: Post-Graduation Readiness

Skill Descriptor: Determine effective ways to collect and manage digital information.

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

  • Examine ways to become digitally responsible when searching online
  • Demonstrate lateral reading to verify information
  • Analyze how algorithms influence media biases in online content
  • Discuss cybersecurity and develop personal practices to protect personal data.
  • Investigate ways to manage own digital footprint

Skill Descriptor: Demonstrate the importance of personal information management.

Global Competencies: CM, CL, SASM, CTPS, ICE

Achievement Indicators:

  • Discuss types of documents needed for a variety of life experiences
  • Practice locating and completing a variety of forms and documents.
  • Examine safety parameters for online document storage
  • Review privacy and confidentiality best practices
  • Create a personal organizational system for maintaining important documents/information

Skill Descriptor: Critique a variety of texts.

Global Competencies: CTPS, CM

Achievement Indicators:

  • Evaluate text for bias, tone, audience, and purpose
  • Revise an opinion based on vetted sources
  • Recognize texts as interpretations of information
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