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THE ONTARIO CURRICULUM, GRADES 11 AND 12 | Cooperative Education
Students may earn up to two cooperative education credits for a full-credit or half-credit related course. Students may take Cooperative Education Linked to a Related Course (or Courses) more than once. Each time this course is taken, it must be linked to a different related course (or courses). See ”Curriculum Expectations” below, “Evaluation”, on pages 45–46, and “Granting of Credits”, on pages 46–47, for detailed information.
If the related course is a non-credit course,12 the cooperative education course will also bear no credit.
Creating Opportunities through Co-op, Grade 11 (Open)
In this course, students can explore a range of interests or create a focused experience based on a particular interest. Within the context of an experience connected to the community, students work towards achieving the course expectations, which focus on developing skills, knowledge, and habits of mind that will support them in their education and career/life planning; protect and promote their health, safety, and well-being; and strengthen their inquiry, decision-making, and leadership skills. Throughout the course, they make connections between their experience in the community and other aspects of their lives.
Students who can benefit from this course are those who:
• wish to explore a particular area of interest but do not have a related course (or courses) to support their learning;
• wish to explore a range of interests and education and career/life planning opportunities;
• wish to create their own innovative or entrepreneurial opportunity that draws on their interests, skills, and career/life goals.
Students may earn a maximum of two cooperative education credits for this course.
CURRICULUM EXPECTATIONS
The expectations identified for the two cooperative education courses describe the skills and knowledge that students are expected to develop and demonstrate in the activities in both the classroom and community components on which their achievement is assessed and evaluated.
Two sets of expectations – overall expectations and specific expectations – are listed for each strand, or broad area of the curriculum. (Cooperative Education Linked to a Related Course [or Courses] has two strands, numbered A and B. Creating Opportunities through Co-op has four strands, numbered A, B, C, and D.) Taken together, the overall and specific expectations represent the mandated curriculum.
The overall expectations describe in general terms the skills and knowledge that students are expected to demonstrate by the end of each course. The specific expectations describe the expected skills and knowledge in greater detail. The specific expectations are grouped under numbered headings, each of which indicates the strand and the overall expectation to which the group of specific expectations corresponds (e.g., “B2” indicates that the
12. A non-credit course may be an alternative course or a course from the Ontario curriculum in which the learning expectations, as described in the student’s IEP, have been modified from the curriculum expectations to such an extent that the principal has deemed that no credit will be granted for completion of the course.
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