Toronto Catholic District School Board

Guidance Department

The guidance and career education program consists of courses that are intended to help students develop learning and interpersonal skills and to enable them to explore careers and the pathways that lead to them.

All students are encouraged to explore and assess their own strengths, needs, and interests and to investigate a broad range of opportunities as they pursue their educational pathways and prepare for postsecondary destinations.

All guidance and career education courses encourage career exploration and skill development through experiential learning activities, such as job shadowing, community involvement, work experience, and cooperative education. [1] In addition, guidance and career education courses are particularly well suited for inclusion in programs designed to provide pathways to various destinations and in programs leading to a diploma with a Specialist High Skills Major.

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Department Head:

Ms. J. Lobo

Department Members:

Ms. A. M. Carpe

Ms. A. Costa

Ms. J. Ridgeway

Department Courses:

Courses	Grade 9	Grade 10	Grade 11	Grade 12
Learning Strategies 1: Skills for Success in Secondary School	GLS10
Learning Strategies 1: Skills for Success in Secondary School *Recommendation of principal*	GLE10
Career Studies (Required Course)		GLC20
Learning Strategies 1: Skills for Success in Secondary School *Recommendation of principal*		GLE20
Designing Your Future			GWL30
Leadership and Peer Support			GPP30
Advanced Learning Strategies Skills for Success After Secondary School			GLS40
Advanced Learning Strategies Skills for Success After Secondary School *Recommendation of principal*				GLE40

[1]See Policy/Program Memorandum No. 139 for information about the use of cooperative education courses to fulfil additional compulsory credit requirements for the Ontario Secondary School Diploma.