Life and Work Plan

LW

Outcomes
LW9.1
Assess one's own abilities to seek, obtain, and/or create work through researching successful strategies and applying them to one's own life.
LW9.2
Use acquired knowledge to create a plan for life and work based on one's preferred future.
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R054771
Job Interview Secrets
This 17 minute game-show style program breaks down the challenging experience of the job interview into easily understood aspects. Topics include conducting a pre-interview research, forming a positive first impression and answering difficult questions. This program supports student inquiry and understanding of individual qualities and strategies in seeking, obtaining and creating work.
Media and Formats : CD/DVD
Price : $129.00
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R054908
Employment and Training: The Osoyoos Indian Band
This video highlights success stories of Aboriginal businesses and entrepreneurs and focuses on the Osoyoos First Nation which is a front-runner in economic development. It discusses opportunities for First Nations populations, especially within the resource sector, and emphasizes the need for relevant education and training in the trades.
Media and Formats : CD/DVD
Price : Free
free
canadiancontent
saskatchewancontent
fnmicontent
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R070509
The Be Real Game Facilitators Kit: High School Edition. Grades 9/10
As the world of work quickly changes, students need to be able to face the challenges ahead of them. This role-playing game from The Real Game Series introduces students to the forces behind the changes and helps to give them the skills needed to function successfully in the world of work. The game allows students to understand the variety of options and opportunities that they have. It also shows the implications of their choices and the importance of education and planning. The game is very flexible as it is possible to use all or parts of it to suit the needs of a particular class. This is an excellent resource as students have fun while they are learning very important practical skills.
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Media and Formats : Book
Price : $547.65
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R047397
Looking at Careers: It's Never Too Soon
This program examines different personality types and how they complement certain careers. The first part of the program highlights through vignettes the following personality preferences: extrovert/introvert, practical/intuitive, thinkers/feelers, and structured/unstructured. The second half of the program focuses on various careers that might appeal to each of the previously mentioned personality types or combinations of these types. Looking at Careers emphasizes that the world needs all of these types and that one is not superior to another.
A teacher's guide is available.
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Media and Formats : CD/DVD Video
Price : $129.95
Record posted/updated: July 8, 2024
R070511
Relevance. Career Options for the Future
This journal, published yearly, offers students valuable information about careers that are available in Saskatchewan. It features tips on choosing a career, profiles of Saskatchewan workers who are involved in exciting careers and a job chart that includes job descriptions, number employed, average income, training and education routes and prospects for the near future.
Media and Formats : Document
Price : Free
free
canadiancontent
saskatchewancontent
fnmicontent
Record posted/updated: April 24, 2020
R042220
Career Cruising
This interactive and multimedia career guidance system is a user friendly program that combines comprehensive career information with career assessment tools and a complete database of colleges and universities. The main components are a career matchmaker that matches students' interests and abilities to a career and a career explorer section. The career explorer section offers hundreds of career profiles and includes multimedia interviews with people in those occupations. The resource also provides information on where to acquire the appropriate education and training. Several classroom activities are included.
A quick tour of the website and a free trial are available at www.careercruising.com.
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Media and Formats : Website
Price : Site license is required
canadiancontent
Record posted/updated: July 8, 2024
R070502
Ready for Work. The Middle Years: Building Work-Readiness Skills
The preparation for the world of work that this resource offers middle level students provides a link with the Ready for Work framework that supports secondary level curricula. Built to reflect the competencies outlined in Blueprint for Life/Work Designs, this resource is divided into three major areas: Identifying My Skills, Understanding the World of Work and Knowing Ourselves and Others. Separate lessons for Grades 6-7 students and Grades 8-9 students are included for each area. The lessons are not sequential and all lessons do not need to be taught. Educators should choose the lessons that best meet the needs of their students.
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Media and Formats : Document
Price : Free
free
canadiancontent
saskatchewancontent
fnmicontent
Record posted/updated: January 30, 2019
R045091
What Type of Person Am I?: Personality and Careers
This video begins with six middle level students fantasizing about their future career possibilities. The narrators discuss how different each person is from the others because of varying personality types. The program explains six personality types based on the Holland Hexagon and offers examples of careers that appeal to these personality types. The six types include creators, thinkers, organizers, helpers, persuaders and doers. The program also discusses second and third personality types (e.g., thinker-creator, doer-organizer-helper).
A teacher's guide is available.
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Media and Formats : CD/DVD
Price : $189.00
Record posted/updated: July 8, 2024
R039835
Choices Explorer
This online career education package focuses on the areas of awareness, exploration, planning and transition. It also offers daily career news updates. These updates include numerous original articles related to the areas of life skills and careers. The layout is presented in a user-friendly magazine style.
This new edition contains a teacher's section. Included are ready-made lesson plans and suggestions for activities in many subject areas on how to integrate career education into classroom lessons.
More information and a free trial can be obtained from www.bridges.com/us/prodnserv/choicesexplorer_hs/index.html
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Media and Formats : Website
Price : Based on school size. Contact distributor
canadiancontent
Record posted/updated: July 8, 2024
R070490
Making a Difference: The Changing the World Handbook
This book includes valuable messages such as identifying environmental issues and recommending actions to address those concerns. It demonstrates how career activities are not always related to paid work. There are ideas for action plans to assist students to practice green activities. The magazine-style layout and current content is appealing to students. Included are a table of contents, a glossary, a short index and a list of websites.
Media and Formats : Book
Price : $11.95
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R043748
Career Assessment: Finding a Career That Fits
This video briefly explores interests, skills and values as key components in making career choices. The program emphasizes that self-assessment, career assessment and career exploration are critical steps toward making appropriate career choices. The program identifies websites to use for career assessment tests.
Media and Formats : CD/DVD
Price : $125.00
Record posted/updated: July 1, 2020
R047407
It's Your Environment, Make It Your Career: ECO Canada. Services for Environment-minded Students
This website offers resources for career exploration in the environmental field. Information topics on the website include: Job Searching in the Environmental Sector, Get Your First Environmental Job, Explore Environmental Careers and Find Your Environmental Program.
Media and Formats : Website
Price : Free
free
canadiancontent
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R026718
Blueprint for Life/Work Designs(Revised ed.)
This resource addresses the need for high-quality career development programs for youth by providing specific guidelines that list competencies considered important to develop throughout one's life. The competencies cover the areas of personal management, learning and work exploration and life/work building. Indicators that describe more specific outcomes in terms of knowledge, skills and attitudes are also provided.
In addition to this package, there is Blueprint for Life/Work Designs: The Quick Reference Guide. This information is accessible through a website at www.blueprint4life.ca.
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Media and Formats : Book Document
Price : $20.00
Record posted/updated: July 8, 2024
R070497
Careers for Life. Student Text: My Career Pathways
This comprehensive resource has been tailored specifically to our province's career education curricula for Grades 6 to 9. The student resource offers Saskatchewan content and photographs, plus profiles of current or former residents. The unit titles are reflective of the pertinent questions that this material challenges students to consider: Why Am I Doing This? Who Am I? What is Out There for Me? How Do I Get Where I Want to Go? How Far Have I Come? and What Can I Expect from Here?
The book includes a table of contents, a glossary and an index.
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•  Careers for Life. Teacher's Resource: My Career Pathways
Media and Formats : Book
Price : $56.50
Record posted/updated: July 8, 2024
R042180
Log On for Success: Using Internet Job Sites
This program explains how to find and search for careers on mega-job websites and career-specific websites. It also addresses how to prepare effective electronic résumés and cover letters; how to complete online questionnaires; and how to save, organize and record what has been posted and sent.
A teacher's guide is available.
Media and Formats : CD/DVD Video
Price : $129.00
Record posted/updated: July 8, 2024
R052384
Careers in Art
This program introduces professionals who have chosen careers in the visual arts and related fields. They briefly describe their careers and share insights that would interest viewers who are considering careers in the field. The careers covered include architect, art educator, fashion designer, framer, gallery owner, graphic designer, industrial designer, interior designer, metal sculptor, painter, photographer, publication designer and urban planner.
Media and Formats : CD/DVD
Price : $49.99
Record posted/updated: November 22, 2018
R045075
Finding the Perfect Job: How to Succeed in the Job Hunt
This program follows a New England college graduate as she goes to New York to seek out a career in theatre arts. It covers areas such as developing an effective résumé and cover letter, finding sources for prospective job listings, networking, preparing for and participating in a successful interview and having persistence and passion.
A teacher's guide is included.
Media and Formats : CD/DVD Video
Price : $189.00
Record posted/updated: July 8, 2024
R070499
Guiding Circles. An Aboriginal Guide to Finding Career Paths
This learning resource has been designed to assist First Nations people in making wise career choices. Guiding Circles employs a holistic career development approach that combines traditional First Nations worldview with sound contemporary career development concepts. It uses the circle as the core mechanism to create a level of self-awareness that assists with career directions. The concepts and activities can be adapted for use by any student.
Booklet 1: Understanding Yourself encourages students to tell their life stories, self-reflect positively and connect personal discoveries to the worlds of school and work.
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Media and Formats : Book
Price : $7.50
Record posted/updated: July 8, 2024