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What are green jobs and why should you care? The green economy represents the biggest job market that you haven't considered. PLT Canada is becoming synonymous with youth workforce development in the forest and conservation sector and we want to share the work that we are doing to connect youth with their future green career pathway.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand diverse job opportunities in the growing green job sector
• Support tools/services are available to connect youth with green jobs
• There is something for everybody in the green jobs sector

Career development is a human process and yet over the past 20 years many schools have neglected or outsourced the process to computer software. In a radical departure, the Cajon Valley School District in San Diego, California, has tapped its teachers to integrate a systemic, research-based, career development framework for every child, in every grade across their 27 schools.

Learning Outcomes:

• Building community, board and administrator support for career development
• Classroom methods for integrating career development in the early grades
• Integrating career development for immigrant families

Youth today face an increasingly uncertain labour market due to fast-paced technological change, greater competition for jobs and the need for increasingly skilled employees. Learn how Career Trek helps students gain employability skills, confidence, and the ability to assess themselves and their environment, in order to develop the adaptability that is crucial to continuous employment in an ever-changing economy.

Learning Outcomes:

• Convey the value of accessible, community-based career exploration
• Design a framework for progressive, experiential career development programming
• Evaluate the impact of career exploration on middle-years students

It's never been more apparent that life and careers are indeed chaotic. Careers education in schools must transform to prepare young people with the skills not just to survive but to thrive through a lifetime of change and uncertainty. Australian schools are using BECOME to enable a whole school approach to careers education from the critical primary years up. Built on the tenets of Chaos Theory, this innovative solution makes it easy for schools to build student AWARENESS, ASPIRATION & AGENCY.

Learning Outcomes:

• Using Chaos Theory to prepare young people for an uncertain world
• Incorporating the principles of Chaos Theory into a K-12 program
• Overcoming the challenges of a whole school approach to careers education

Arun Mittal will present on Career Education in India – Gaps & Opportunities, describing the status of career planning services in Indian Schools. Dr. William Gunawan will present on The Past and Future of Career Development in Indonesia, sharing his goals for the future in this country with limited resources and huge need for career planning services. Dr. Elisabeth Montgomery will present on Parent Influences on Career Exploration in Chinese Public Schools, describing her efforts to expand career planning in the Shenzhen, China by engaging the help of parents.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand career planning in Indian schools
• Awareness of career development in Indonesia
• Role of parents in career exploration in China

Use a real-world example to help students discover a new approach to career exploration: the Challenge mindset. By looking beyond the job titles working on the pandemic, students can identify the challenges we need to solve. This more meaningful approach will unlock new possibilities and will change the way they see their future, for the rest of their lives.

Learning Outcomes:

• Discover labour market information about pandemic work opportunities
• Learn to "flip the model" of career development
• Acquire innovative, practical strategies to use with your students

How do you commence a successful career? A question often asked by students. Simply put, with an action plan. This can be an engaging experience if students come with the right mindset. I encourage students to consider it a remarkable journey of intense reflection. What if students are not interested? How do we motivate them? Join me to find out!

Learning Outcomes:

• Challenges and opportunities for empowering students with career literacy
• Value of planned educational and leisure experiences
• Tips to empower students to enable the future

Let’s do high school career education better! Join researchers and practitioners from across the country in a discussion on how young people make career decisions. We will draw on rich insights from a recent CERIC-funded study to share our learning about who to target, with what, and when. Help us build an agenda for future action in research and practice, including what works well, what needs to change, and what are the questions we still need to answer.

We need to think about the future of public education to ensure that Canada educates the next generations it needs to compete in the global economy, solve complex social problems, decrease social polarization, and ensure a fair, prosperous and sustainable society. This Mega session will start a dialogue with a panel of diverse leaders across related sectors on what's happening across Canada "beyond the 3R's" -- taking a deeper look at the skills revolution and counselling in K-12. The session will address the question: Where and how are Canada’s education systems providing students with the skills to be “future-ready?”

Learning Outcomes:

• What are the skills students need to be “future-ready?”
• How does counselling in K to 12 have to change?
• What mechanisms exist to work across sectors on skills’ policy?

Nous devons réfléchir à l’avenir de l’éducation publique pour que le Canada forme les prochaines générations dont il a besoin pour être compétitif dans l’économie mondiale, résoudre des problèmes sociaux complexes, réduire la polarisation sociale et assurer une société équitable, prospère et durable. Cette mégaséance permettra d’entamer un dialogue avec un panel de divers leaders de secteurs connexes sur ce qui se passe au Canada « au-delà des 3R » (Réduire, Réutiliser, Recycler), en examinant plus en profondeur la révolution des compétences et l’orientation de la maternelle à la 12e année. La séance abordera la question suivante : où et comment les systèmes éducatifs canadiens fournissent-ils aux étudiants les compétences nécessaires pour être « prêts pour l’avenir »?

Objectifs d’apprentissage:

• Quelles sont les compétences dont les étudiants ont besoin pour être « prêts pour l’avenir »?
• Comment l’orientation doit-elle évoluer de la maternelle à la 12e année?
• Quels sont les mécanismes qui existent pour travailler de manière intersectorielle sur une politique des compétences?

This session will add to your toolbox of reflection strategies to help students transfer learning beyond the classroom. Providing students the opportunity to reflect and debrief enables them to deepen their learning while promoting good metacognition. Through meaningful reflection activities, teachers can support students in developing the skills and knowledge they need to make informed education and career/life planning choices.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn more about the experiential learning cycle
• Add to your "toolkit" of reflection strategies
• Ways to weave reflection into transition and pathway planning

Every Ministry of Education in Canada has endorsed evidence-based benchmarks intended to support career education in K-PSE. This session presents the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) Reference Framework for Successful Student Transitions, delineates the benchmarks and its assessment tool. It features a panel of career experts who are using and advocating for their application across Canada. Come and explore how you can use them too.

Learning Outcomes:

• To learn about benchmarks for good practice in career education
• To learn about possible applications in schools and institution
• To discuss ways to advocate for their use"

Tous les ministères de l’Éducation du Canada ont approuvé des points de repère fondés sur des données probantes et destinés à soutenir l’éducation au choix de carrière de la maternelle au niveau postsecondaire. Cette séance présente le cadre de référence du Conseil des ministres de l’Éducation (Canada) pour la réussite des transitions des élèves, en décrivant les points de repère et l’outil d’évaluation associés. Elle comprend un panel de spécialistes en gestion de carrière qui utilisent ces points de repère et plaident en faveur de leur application partout au Canada. Venez découvrir comment vous pouvez vous aussi en tirer avantage.

Objectifs d’apprentissage :

• Pour en savoir plus sur les points de repère des bonnes pratiques en matière d’éducation au choix de carrière
• Pour en savoir plus sur les applications possibles dans les écoles et les institutions
• Pour discuter des moyens de plaider en faveur de l’utilisation de ces points de repère