Career-Life Education (CLE)

Big Ideas

Curricular Competencies

Content

Career-life choices are made in a recurring cycle of planning, reflecting, adapting, and deciding.

Career-life decisions are influenced by internal and external factors, including local and global trends.

Cultivating networks and reciprocal relationships can support and broaden career-life awareness and options.

Finding balance between personal and work life promotes well-being.

Lifelong learning fosters career-life opportunities.

Examine

Interact

Experience

Initiate

Career-life development

Connections with community

Career-life planning

Examine the influences of personal and public profiles on career-life opportunities

Identify risks and appreciate benefits associated with personal and public digital footprints

Consider the role of personal and employment networks in exploring career-life opportunities

Apply a mentor’s guidance in career-life exploration

Collaborate with supportive community members to explore the reciprocal influences of career-life choices

Communicate with the intent to highlight personal strengths, talents, accomplishments, and abilities

Demonstrate inclusive, respectful, and safe interactions in diverse career-life environments

Identify career-life challenges and opportunities, and generate and apply strategies

Explore and connect experiential learning both inside and outside of school with possible and preferred career-life pathways

Practise effective strategies for healthy school/work/life balance

Explore and reflect on career-life roles, personal growth, and initial planning for preferred career-life pathways

Develop preliminary profiles and flexible plans for career-life learning journeys

mentorship opportunities

strategies for maintaining well-being in personal and work life

preferred ways of knowing and learning

competencies of the educated citizen, employability skills, essential skills, leadership and collaboration skills

self-assessment and reflection strategies

ways to represent themselves both personally and publicly

appropriate workplace behaviour and workplace safety

inclusive practices, including taking different worldviews and diverse perspectives into consideration

personal networking and employment marketing strategies

factors that both inform career-life choices and are influenced by them, including personal, environmental, and land use factors

ways to contribute to community and society that take cultural influences into consideration

value of volunteerism for self and community

career-life development research

methods of organizing and maintaining authentic career-life evidence

models of decision making and innovative thinking for flexible planning and goal setting

financial planning tools, pre- and post-graduation opportunities, and local and global labour and market trends