Background & Outline
Community Based Learning (CBL 10) is designed for grade 10 Options and Opportunities students. Students explore the opportunities that businesses and organizations in their community offer and experience through the increased understanding of their own employability skills, their personal growth opportunities, and their connection with the community. CBL 10 expands opportunities for students to learn in the community and workplace, providing credit for learning through a range of community-based activities which focus on leadership, mentoring, employability skills, and personal growth. In time, students will develop abilities to think and communicate through their experiences in authentic community settings, and will be able to assess their own interests/abilities and understand how their actions affect their learning and decision making. In addition, they will develop responsibility for managing their explorations in the work of work as they increase their awareness of life and work. Lastly, students will understand the rights and responsibilities both employers and employees have to make work and community settings safe, healthy, and productive environments
Assessment Breakdown
Career Related Research 10%
Job-Shadowing Experience 30%
Service Learning 30%
Field Trips / Work Placements 10%
Volunteerism 20%
Outcomes
Students will be expected to:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of and appreciation for their community* and it’s potential
2. Demonstrate the behaviors and attitudes of active citizenship**
3. Demonstrate a growth in understanding of the importance of safety in the home, workplace, and community
4. Apply fundamental skills***, including communicating, managing information, using numbers, and problem solving
5. Apply personal management skills, including positive attitudes and behaviors, responsibility, adaptability,and lifelong learning
6. Apply teamwork skills
7. Demonstrate an understanding of the skills and knowledge related to a range of careers and community roles
8. Demonstrate a commitment to the process of personal growth
9. Expand the range of artifacts in their Life Work Portfolios
10. Demonstrate the skills and attitudes required to be successful in a Co-operative Education course
* Community includes individuals, businesses, institutions, organizations, and networks.
**Citizenship is used here to mean responsible behaviour toward community, environment, the law, and other people.
Community Based Learning (CBL 10) is designed for grade 10 Options and Opportunities students. Students explore the opportunities that businesses and organizations in their community offer and experience through the increased understanding of their own employability skills, their personal growth opportunities, and their connection with the community. CBL 10 expands opportunities for students to learn in the community and workplace, providing credit for learning through a range of community-based activities which focus on leadership, mentoring, employability skills, and personal growth. In time, students will develop abilities to think and communicate through their experiences in authentic community settings, and will be able to assess their own interests/abilities and understand how their actions affect their learning and decision making. In addition, they will develop responsibility for managing their explorations in the work of work as they increase their awareness of life and work. Lastly, students will understand the rights and responsibilities both employers and employees have to make work and community settings safe, healthy, and productive environments
Assessment Breakdown
Career Related Research 10%
Job-Shadowing Experience 30%
Service Learning 30%
Field Trips / Work Placements 10%
Volunteerism 20%
Outcomes
Students will be expected to:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of and appreciation for their community* and it’s potential
2. Demonstrate the behaviors and attitudes of active citizenship**
3. Demonstrate a growth in understanding of the importance of safety in the home, workplace, and community
4. Apply fundamental skills***, including communicating, managing information, using numbers, and problem solving
5. Apply personal management skills, including positive attitudes and behaviors, responsibility, adaptability,and lifelong learning
6. Apply teamwork skills
7. Demonstrate an understanding of the skills and knowledge related to a range of careers and community roles
8. Demonstrate a commitment to the process of personal growth
9. Expand the range of artifacts in their Life Work Portfolios
10. Demonstrate the skills and attitudes required to be successful in a Co-operative Education course
* Community includes individuals, businesses, institutions, organizations, and networks.
**Citizenship is used here to mean responsible behaviour toward community, environment, the law, and other people.