Guidance and Career Education Part 1
Description: Guidance and Career Education Part 1 is an introductory course open to all elementary teachers or secondary teachers who have a basic qualification in general studies or technological studies and who are interested in learning more about the guidance program, policies, and how the skills of guidance counsellors can be implemented in the classroom to enhance the learning and understanding of others.
The underlying purpose of Guidance and Career Education Part 1 is to provide you with an overview of the guidance program. Particular emphasis is placed on the policy document Creating Pathways to Success. It is also intended to provide opportunities to learn basic counselling, interpersonal, and human relations skills necessary for addressing the challenges of teaching in contemporary school settings.
This course is open to all elementary teachers or secondary teachers who have a basic qualification in general studies or technological studies.
Module 1: Understanding the Role of the Guidance Counsellor
Module 2: Curriculum for Career and Life Planning
Module 3: Access to Information and Communication
Module 4: Transitions and Wellness
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Guidance and Career Education Part 2
Description: Guidance and Career Education Part 2 enhances professional practice by extending, applying, and designing learning opportunities that reflect the knowledge and skills outlined in Part 1. Using an inquiry framework, the course also extends candidates’ professional learning and practice in the theoretical foundations of guidance and career education, program planning, development and implementation, learning environments and instructional strategies, reflecting, documenting and interpreting learning, shared responsibility for learning, and research, professional learning and the scholarship of pedagogy. Assessment and evaluation strategies reflect effective, collaborative, and inquiry-based practices.
Participants must have a basic qualification in general or technological studies, have taught at least 194 days, and have completed Guidance and Career Education Part 1.
Module 1: The Role of the Guidance Counsellor
Module 2: Learning for All
Module 3: Ethics and Counselling
Module 4: Safe Schools
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Guidance and Career Education Specialist
Description: The Additional Qualification Course: Guidance and Career Education Specialist fosters leadership, critical and collaborative inquiry, and exploration of the dimensions associated with children and adolescent development from K-12 to post-secondary destinations. The course cultivates leadership in program planning, development, and implementation strategies and frameworks related to Guidance and Career Education, and critically explores effective, collaborative transition planning to support all learners. It also fosters shared leadership in exploring, developing, and implementing programs that respond to students’ lived experiences, development, strengths, interests, and needs. Assessment and evaluation strategies reflect effective, collaborative, and inquiry-based practices. This course is open to all elementary and secondary teachers who have a basic qualification in general or technological studies, have taught for at least two years (including one year in Guidance and Career Education), and have completed Guidance and Career Education Part 2.
Module 1: The Administrative Role of the Guidance Counsellor
Module 2: The Guidance Counsellor as Support Worker
Module 3: Academic and Pathway Planner
Module 4: School Leadership, Programming and Planning
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