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The secondary technological education curriculum includes broad-based areas of learning that relate to many skilled trades, and it is important that students become aware of and exposed to the skilled trades and apprenticeship as a potential pathway.
Climate Change
Climate change is an important topic addressed in age-appropriate learning throughout the strands of the science course. While climate change concepts and discussions address important environmental concerns, it is important to also foster hope and optimism in teaching and learning about climate change and other environmental issues. Students will develop the skills and knowledge needed to understand the causes and potential innovative solutions and mitigation strategies related to climate change and other environmental issues, and how they can make the most environmentally responsible decisions possible, given the choices they have.
Assessment and Evaluation of Student Achievement
Growing Success: Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting in Ontario Schools, First Edition, Covering Grades 1 to 12, 2010 sets out the Ministry of Education’s assessment, evaluation, and reporting policy. The policy aims to maintain high standards, improve student learning, and benefit all students, parents,4 and teachers in elementary and secondary schools across the province. Successful implementation of this policy depends on the professional judgement5 of teachers at all levels as well as their high expectations of all students, and on their ability to work together with and to build trust and confidence among parents and students.
Major aspects of assessment, evaluation, and reporting policy are summarized in the main “Assessment and Evaluation” section. The key tool for assessment and evaluation in science – the achievement chart – is provided below.
4 The word parent(s) is used on this website to refer to parent(s) and guardian(s). It may also be taken to include caregivers or close family members who are responsible for raising the child.
5 “Professional judgement”, as defined in Growing Success (p. 152), is “judgement that is informed by professional knowledge of curriculum expectations, context, evidence of learning, methods of instruction and assessment, and the criteria and standards that indicate success in student learning. In professional practice, judgement involves a purposeful and systematic thinking process that evolves in terms of accuracy and insight with ongoing reflection and self-correction”.
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