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Figure 1. Structure of the Education and Career/Life Planning Program
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Framework for a Four-Step Inquiry Process
Creating Pathways to Success outlines an inquiry-based conceptual framework and supporting policies and processes to guide schools in developing a comprehensive Kindergarten to Grade 12 education and career/life planning program. The program framework is a four-step inquiry process built on four questions linked to the
four areas of learning in education and career/life planning – Knowing Yourself; Exploring Opportunities; Making Decisions and Setting Goals; and Achieving Goals and Making Transitions (see figure 2).
The four questions in the framework – Who am I? What are my opportunities? Who do I want to become? and What is my plan for achieving my goals? – are relevant at any age or stage of development; only context and emphasis change as a student progresses through school, from Kindergarten to Grade 12.
The education and career/life planning process is ongoing and cyclical, with students regularly returning to the four questions, equipped with a greater knowledge of themselves and their opportunities and a growing understanding of how they can successfully shape their future. Details of the knowledge and skills students acquire through the application of the framework are provided in section 3.3.
