Page 24 - The Ontario Curriculum: Career Studies, Grade 10, Open (GLC2O) – Guidance and Career Education. Advance Release of Curriculum Expectations, 2019 (revised course)

In the changing world of work, as responsibilities for workers’ health and safety shift, what can you do to look after your own physical, mental, and emotional health in the workplace? How might you communicate information about any accommodations you may need to an employer? How might you advocate for yourself? What are the benefits and/or challenges of doing this?
The growing recognition of the importance of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workforce has led to legislation requiring employers to ensure that workplaces are free from discrimination. How would you know if an employer has met this respon- sibility? Why would this be important to you?
Governments and employers now recognize the need for greater work/life balance, to promote workers’ well-being and improve productivity. Employees are more often able to work remotely or to work on a flexible schedule. Parental leave is supported. What other changes might assist employees in achieving work/life balance?
Instructional Tips
• Teachers can support students in accessing and using local, provincial, national, and/or global labour market information sources, including the websites of governmental organizations and agencies, workforce planning boards, and
• human resource and career development organizations.
Teachers can support students in learning about the fields or career sectors they are interested in by offering local experiential learning opportunities (e.g., tours of local industries; events with guest speakers who have expertise in entrepreneur-
• ship, local industries, or growth sectors).
Teachers can encourage students to consult the Ministry of Labour website, which provides useful information about trends and changes in the workplace as well as online learning modules related to worker health and safety.
B1.2 explain how transferable skills are developed through school, extracurricular, and/or community experiences, and analyse how they contribute to a person’s readiness for future educational, life, and work opportunities and to their career development
Examples
Transferable skills: : critical thinking and problem solving (including acquiring
and analysing information before taking informed action); innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship (including exploring, enhancing, and scaling ideas and bringing them into action to meet community needs); self-directed learning (including reflec- tion, self-assessment, and adaptability to support motivation and confidence to become a lifelong learner); collaboration (including working in teams, in physical and virtual environments, to build knowledge); communication (including expressing meaning in multiple ways and in a variety of contexts); global competence (including understanding global and local perspectives, appreciating the diversity of people, and
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