GLE1/2/3/4OR: Academic Workshop, grades 9-12, open level
Unit 1: Habits for Success
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Habit 1: Improving Skills & Work Habits
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Habit 2: Staying Organized
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Habit 3: Eating a Balanced Diet
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Unit 2: Pathways
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Focus 1: Advocating for my Needs
- Help your teacher understand you by writing a Dear Teacher letter or completing a Student Profile.
- Discover your Learning Style by taking the quizzes at myBlueprint.ca and CareerCruising.com. If you don't get the same results on these quizzes, take a tiebreaker quiz at brainboxx; or on paper. Use your results as well as these tips to take notes on strategies you would use to cater to your learning style at school.
- Contribute to the annual revision of your Individual Education Plan (IEP) and use it to advocate for your needs in the classroom.
Focus 2: Graduating Highschool
- Use the High School Planner tool at MyBlueprint.ca/tdsb to create a plan for graduating with an OSSC or OSSD. Use these elective courses and sample pathways documents to help you choose your courses.
- Credit Recovery students: how much time are you losing to failed courses? Calculate When Can I (finally!) Graduate?
Focus 3: Finding & Applying for Jobs
- How will you complete your 40 hours of volunteer experience? Use Volunteer Toronto's youth database and guide, Finding Volunteer Opportunities, to locate the perfect position for you!
- Want to make some money right now? Find a part-time job using a job bank (Government of Canada, Workopolis, YES (Youth Employment Services, or ) or the employment page for the website of the specific company for which you wish to work (most jobs for high school students are in Retail & Food Services).
- Want to make some money during the summer? Find a summer job using the TDSB's Summer Destinations guide or apply to popular summer job programmes like the TDSB's Focus on Youth Toronto, and TPS's Youth in Policing Initiative)
- Use these application form tips & sample to complete application forms.
- Use the resume & cover letter tool at myBlueprint.ca/tdsb to create professional-looking documents by filling in simple forms. If you prefer to create them yourself with word-processing software, use the following: resume template & samples, cover letter template & tips.
- Perhaps most important, however, use this references template & tips to provide good references, and use these common interview questions to practise for your interview.
Focus 4: Planning for Life After Highschool
- What you want to be when you grow up? Use the Career Cruising website and this Research Organizer to investigate an Occupational Cluster that interests you.
- Use the Post Secondary Planner tool at MyBlueprint.ca/tdsb to explore which pathway(s) interest(s) you most.
Unit 3: Literacy
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Skill 1: Reading Fluently
Skill 2: Summarizing
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Skill 3: Writing Opinion Paragraphs
Can video games be good for teens? Should cell phones be banned in public places? Should classes in high schools start later? Should community service be a school requirement? Should gym class be required every day? Should people download music from the internet for free? Should scientists be allowed to clone humans? Should students continue to dissect animals in school?
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Unit 4: Numeracy
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Skill 1: Compute Fluently
- Compete for the top score on the leader-board & earn coins to level up and buy swag for your avatar on Sumdog.
- Partner Games: Beat the Calculator
Unit 5: Technology
- Still hunting and pecking on that keyboard? Learn keyboarding skills with All the Right Type.
- SMART Ideas - brainstorm your ideas visually, and the computer turns them into an outline you can use to draft your writing.
- Dragon Naturally Speaking - dictate your text and let the computer do the typing for you.
- Read & Write Gold and PDF Aloud - use word prediction to help you spell, use speak-as-I-type to hear what you type, have the computer read text to you, use the highlighting tools to take notes