What are Employability Skills?
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Employability skills include skills such as reading, writing, computer use, team work, organization, working safely and problem solving. These transferable skills are used in almost all jobs....
What are Certifications?
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A certification is granted once a person completes special skills training needed for employment in certain jobs. Example: fork lift certification is needed before a person is permitted to drive a fork...
What are ‘expectations’?
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The knowledge and skills that students are to learn and be able to do in a course are called...
What are Accommodations?
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Accommodations are special teaching strategies, equipment, or human supports needed to make sure a student learns. Accommodations do not change the provincial curriculum expectations for the...
What are Modifications?
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Modifications are changes to the expectations for a course in order to meet a student’s learning needs. Some students, who need modifications, may also need accommodations to reach the expectations of that...
What is Credit Recovery?
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Credit Recovery gives students the opportunity to redo the parts of a course they didn’t learn successfully the first...
What is Credit Rescue?
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Students get extra help with class work and assignments when they are part of the credit rescue program at their...
What’s the OSSLC?
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The Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course is available to students who are unsuccessful in passing the Literacy test. OSSLC can count as Grade 12 Compulsory English...
What’s a Transfer Course?
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Transfer courses cover the knowledge and skills students need to move from one course type to another. Students earn credits for completing transfer...
What’s a Prerequisite?
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A required course that a student needs to be successful in a later course. In some cases, prerequisites may be...
What’s the Literacy Requirement?
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The literacy test is based on Ontario curriculum expectations for reading and writing in all subjects up to the end of Grade 9. Students, who are unsuccessful, will be able write the test again, or to take the equivalent OSSLC. Students write the test in Grade...
40 Hours of Community Involvement
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Hours must be completed, unpaid, outside normal school hours. Grade 9 students will receive the 40 Hour Community Involvement...
What’s a Credit?
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A credit is the way the Ministry of Education recognizes the successful completion of a course. One credit is granted based on 110 hours of instruction. A credit can only be granted by the principal of a secondary...
OSSLT – Literacy Test & Reporting
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Literacy Requirement: Special Situations … Does one of these apply to you?
Accommodations:
Students who receive special accommodations in their school program, will receive the same accommodations when writing the OSSLT.
Deferrals:
Students may benefit from a deferral if:
identified as...
Four types of courses are offered in grades 9 and 10
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Academic – emphasize theoretical, abstract applications of the essential concepts and incorporate practical applications as appropriate.
Applied – develop students’ knowledge and skills by emphasizing practical, concrete applications of essential concepts. Theoretical applications are incorporated as...
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