Career/Life Planning 

Education and career/life planning helps students develop the knowledge and skills they need to make informed choices for their education, career, and life outside school. Spadina International School Students get a chance to learn more about themselves and their opportunities, set goals, and make plans to achieve them. This program helps students choose the courses and activities that support their goals and interests

The goals are to:

1. Ensure that students develop the knowledge and skills they need to make informed education and career/life choices through the effective application of a four-step inquiry process;

2. Provide opportunities for this learning both in and outside the classroom; 

3. Engage parents and the broader community in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the program, to support students in their learning.

The guidance and career education program have three areas of learning – student development (i.e., the development of habits and skills necessary for learning), interpersonal development (i.e., the development of the knowledge and skills needed in getting along with others), and career development (i.e., the development of the knowledge and skills needed to set short-term and long-term goals in planning for the future). Student development and interpersonal development areas are integrated within the learning skills and work habits in all the courses in SIS

The program teaches SIS students how to understand themselves better and plan for the future. It does

this by helping students to develop answers to four key questions:

1. Who am I?

2. What are my opportunities?

3. Who do I want to become?

4. What is my plan for achieving my goals?

SIS students will develop knowledge and skills about education and career/life planning through classroom activities related to the curriculum and school-wide activities like career fairs and postsecondary presentations.

SIS students are responsible for building and updating their portfolios and Individual Pathways Plan (IPP). SIS will have a web-based template to help students create their plans that will be reviewed at least twice a year. SIS students share the learning they record in their IPP with a teacher and/or guidance counselor. They are also encouraged to share their learning with their parents or guardian.

Personal information collected by the teacher or counselor is governed by freedom of information legislation

Beliefs about Student Success

• All students can be successful;

• Success comes in many forms;

• There are many pathways to success

Competencies for life and career education program

The OECD report outlines the following three categories of competency: 

Using Tools Interactively 

• The ability to use language, symbols, and text interactively 

• The ability to use knowledge and information interactively 

• The ability to use technology interactively 

Interacting in Heterogeneous Groups 

• The ability to relate well to others 

• The ability to cooperate and work in teams 

• The ability to manage and resolve conflicts 

Acting Autonomously 

• The ability to act within the bigger picture 

• The ability to form and conduct life plans and personal projects 

• The ability to defend and assert rights, interests, limits, and needs