Grade 8 - Career Education (2008)

Change and Growth (CG) Goal: All students will develop career management competencies through an exploration of personal change and growth.

Connections to Community (CC) Goal: All students will explore the connection between learning and work pathways and their connections to community.

Life and Work Plan (LW) Goal: All students will engage in inquiry to construct a personal life and work plan.

Analyze one’s own selfimage including personal skills, interests, and behaviours and their influences on one’s life and work.

Analyze abilities for responding positively to change in one’s life.

Examine how a disposition for lifelong learning connects to potential career pathways.

Determine the contributions that work and work alternatives such as volunteerism make to the community and identify their importance to society

Compare skills taxonomies such as Essential Skills and Employability Skills and examine how an individual’s skills may influence possible future occupational choices.

Formulate a list of life roles and examine possible changes over one’s lifespan.

Examine how personal attitudes and behaviours are influenced by environmental factors such as economic conditions, geographic location, and cultural experience within the Saskatchewan context

Discuss and demonstrate how a realistic and positive self-image contributes to self-fulfillment, both personally and professionally

Demonstrate an appreciation of the impact of one’s selfimage on self and others through activities such as role playing, interviewing, collaboration, and self-reflection

Transform behaviours and attitudes in order to improve one’s selfimage and in turn contribute positively to one’s life and work

Explore and verify, through sharing, how feelings are influenced by significant experiences

Examine one’s work, family, and leisure activities and acknowledge their impact on one’s mental, emotional, physical, and economic well-being

Re-examine one’s communication skills and adopt those that are truly effective in various situations

Identify and draw conclusions about the effectiveness of various interpersonal and group communication skills such as active listening, giving feedback, etiquette, and tact

Practise helping skills such as facilitating, problem solving, tutoring, and guiding when dealing with change

Reflect on and express insights about effective skills and attitudes in responding to criticism through group activities such as talking circles, trust activities, and cooperative games

Document and appraise one’s own dependability and honesty towards others

Re-examine personal management skills such as time management, problem solving, stress management, and lifework balance and evaluate one’s own strategies for dealing with personal change

Identify typical physical, psychological, social, and emotional changes during adolescence and reflect on one’s own changes

Participate in the creation of a group or class list of strategies for improving academic skills and knowledge, and assess strategies best suited to personal growth

Conduct a personal communication with an experienced worker and create a visual representation of their career pathway

Compare how positive and negative personal skills and attitudes influence life and work-related success

Explore and clarify understandings about the relationship between personal knowledge and skills and life and work choices

Examine how organizations operate (e.g., how money is made, overhead costs, profit) to formulate understandings of relationships between employers, workers, and consumers

Evaluate and justify the economic contributions workers and entrepreneurs make to a community

Identify and select the skills, knowledge, and attitudes best suited to volunteer and work requirements

Cite personal skills and attitudes conducive to life and work success and formulate a plan to incorporate these skills and attitudes into one’s own life through volunteer activities

Evaluate the impact of one’s personal skills and attitudes on one’s life/work successes in the community

Classify work roles and work alternatives such as volunteerism using various resources including digital media

Examine creative or alternative life/work scenarios, and evaluate their possible impact on one’s life

Compare various working conditions such as inside/outside, shift work, and hazardous work

Compare personal skills to taxonomies such as Essential Skills (http://srv108.services.gc.ca/english/general/Understanding_ ES_e.shtml) and Employability Skills (http://conferenceboard. ca/education/) while identifying areas of focus for future improvement

Identify how personal beliefs, skills, and attitudes affect decision making regarding one’s work choices

Draw conclusions about the connections between skill taxonomies and personal work and life plans

Consider how personal goals can be satisfied through a combination of work, community, social, and family roles

Identify how various life and work roles impact the attainment of future goals

Determine examples of life and work roles that would positively impact one’s life (e.g., participating in sports and the arts, holding down a job, volunteering in the community, helping a neighbour)

Examine and assess one’s preferred future using as criteria newly acquired information about self and the world of work

Investigate the concept of a preferred future and adjust one’s preferred future as experience changes knowledge of oneself