Welcome to the Teacher Resource Centre
In this section, there are resources for teachers developed by the Passport to Prosperity program, examples of best practices taking place at School Boards across Ontario, and links to websites offering free classroom resources for teachers and information on a wide variety of topics including career and labour market information, essential employability skills, and apprenticeships.
Successful School-Employer Partnerships
There are many local examples of successful school-employer partnerships. Many are innovative initiatives by School Boards in the Greater Toronto area aimed at students leaving school and going straight into the workforce. One example is “Mission Employable,” a Job Fair conference organized by Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board and Peel District School Board which has been taking place annually since 2004. Other initiatives include Toronto District School Board’s annual event entitled Work Connections and the Toronto Catholic District School Board’s annual spring Job Fair called “Be the One…Get Hired” for Grade 12 students planning to enter the world of work In York region, the York Region District School Board and York Catholic District School Board have jointly offered an event entitled “Fast Track to the Workplace” each spring since 2005. In recent years, Durham District School Board offered a “Getting to Work Day” for graduating students exploring work as a destination.
In addition, there are many examples of innovative in-house Co-op programs such as Bank of Montreal and Ontario Power Generation where Coop teachers run Co-op programs at the employer’s premises.
Guidance and Career Resources
The Passport to Prosperity program at The Learning Partnership has developed new online resources for high school Careers and Guidance courses.
Student and Teacher resources have been created specifically to tie in with two high school Guidance courses, Discovering the Workplace (Grade 10 course) and Navigating the Workplace (Grade 12 course) but can also be used more generally in Careers courses and workplace preparation. The online resources are closely aligned with the Essential Skills and are designed for students who are exploring careers and preparing for experiential learning opportunities such as job shadowing, Co-op placements, work experience and workplace visits. Teacher resources include classroom activities, samples lessons, links to additional resources and suggestions for student assessment.
The online resources also include suggestions for employers who are hosting students at their workplace and a resource for parents to assist them in enhancing their teen's workplace experience. Click here to access these resources.
Virtual Workplace Tour of the Hospitality Industry
The Learning Partnership’s Passport to Prosperity program has created a virtual workplace tour (available in English and in French) to provide a valuable resource for schools, teachers, and students. The video tour is lively, fast-paced and geared toward high school students. It offers relevant and meaningful career information and demonstrates the range of career opportunities available within the hospitality industry.
The tour focuses on careers in the hospitality industry and was filmed at the Sheraton Fallsview Hotel in Niagara Falls and Le Meridien/King Edward Hotel in Toronto during the spring of 2004. The complete tour is about 25 minutes long and contains interviews with eight people, including a Chef, Banquet Manager, Front Desk Manager, Security Manager, Catering Manager, Concierge, Housekeeper and high school Co-op Student. It ends with each person offering career advice to high school students.
For more information or a copy of the video or DVD in either English or French, please call 416-440-5113. The video is accompanied by a teacher’s curriculum package with classroom activities. In addition, the video can be viewed online from The Learning Partnership website, www.thelearningpartnership.ca, and the curriculum package can be downloaded from the website. (From The Learning Partnership homepage, go to “Programs,” then “Passport to Prosperity.”)
French Resources/Ressources en français
En plus de la vidéocassette sur la Visite virtuelle d'un milieu de travail virtuel, d'autres ressources en français reliées au programme Passeport pour la prospérité sont disponibles. Sont inclus entre autres, Conseils pour les conférenciers, ce guide offre des pistes et des techniques aux conférenciers afin que les discussions sur les carrières qu'ils ont avec les étudiants en salle de classe soient profitables, la fiche descriptive de class2careers.com, ainsi qu'une fiche pour les employeurs indiquant des possibilités école-travail qu'ils peuvent offrir. S'il vous plaît, cliquez ici pour avoir accès à la liste complète des ressources en français.
Career Studies Pilot Project
The Career Studies Pilot program took place during the spring of 2004 and involved bringing in Career speakers and offering workplace tours for over 200 students in three Dufferin-Peel CDSB secondary schools. For further information about the Pilot program, contact the Passport to Prosperity program at 416-440-5113. Click here for practical suggestions on how to get started in your school.
Skills Canada - Ontario
Skills Canada - Ontario provides young people the information and the opportunities they deserve. “What’s Out There?” is an informative, interactive, 45-minute presentation about career opportunities in the skilled trades and technologies and is available in both official languages to all schools affiliated with Skills Canada - Ontario. The presentation is designed to increase students’ awareness of career opportunities in the skilled trades and technologies by presenting up-to-date, relevant information and encouraging students to investigate all of their post-secondary options.
Schools across the province are offered a presentation as a benefit of affiliation. Affiliation fees for high schools and elementary schools are $175 and $95 respectively. Contact your School Principal or School Board for your school's affiliation status.
For more information, please visit www.skillsontario.com
French Resources/Ressources en français
En plus de la vidéocassette sur la Visite virtuelle d'un milieu de travail virtuel, d'autres ressources en français reliées au programme Passeport pour la prospérité sont disponibles. Sont inclus entre autres, Conseils pour les conférenciers, ce guide offre des pistes et des techniques aux conférenciers afin que les discussions sur les carrières qu'ils ont avec les étudiants en salle de classe soient profitables, la fiche descriptive de class2careers.com, ainsi qu'une fiche pour les employeurs indiquant des possibilités école-travail qu'ils peuvent offrir. S'il vous plaît, cliquez ici pour avoir accès à la liste complète des ressources en français.
Career Studies Pilot Project
The Career Studies Pilot program took place during the spring of 2004 and involved bringing in Career speakers and offering workplace tours for over 200 students in three Dufferin-Peel CDSB secondary schools. For further information about the Pilot program, contact the Passport to Prosperity program at 416-440-5113. Click here for practical suggestions on how to get started in your school.
Essential Skills
This website provides information from Human Resources and Skill Development Canada (HRSDC) about essential employability skills that more and more students are learning about in school.
Essential Skills are enabling skills that: (1) Help people perform the tasks required by their occupation and other activities of daily life; (2) Provide people with a foundation to learn other skills; (3) Enhance people's ability to adapt to workplace change. Essential Skills are not technical skills but rather the skills people use to carry out a wide variety of everyday life and occupational tasks.
Women's Speakers Bureau (WOW! Words on Work)
Planning a Career Day or Fair? This website provides an easy -to-use database of women speakers from a wide variety of career backgrounds offering career talks for students in Grades 4 to 12. Visit www.wordsonwork.ca to access speakers and archived WOWcasts featuring career panel presentations.
Take Our Kids to Work Day
The official National Take Our Kids to Work™ website offers resources to employers, employees, teachers, parents and students to prepare for the annual national Take Our Kids to Work™ day. TOKW Day is a one-day job shadowing opportunity for Grade 9 students across Canada which takes place each year on the first Wednesday in November.
Toronto District School Board Career Paths/Liens français
This Career Paths page created by Toronto District School Board offers students the opportunity to explore a wide variety of careers and occupations, Jobs and Employment, University and College Planning and Application information, Career Assessment Quizzes and Tests, Resources and Tools including cover letters and informational interviews, in addition to providing links to opportunities for volunteering in the community.
The Ontario Ministry of Education's Career Gateway
These pages provide a starting point for exploration of many online career and employment-related resources.
York Region Virtual Community Resource Centre
This website, the Virtual Community Resource Centre, provides career related information with a focus on York Region. It covers a wide range of information, including links to resume writing and other learning resources, notices about region career events and workshops, calendars of Employment Resource Centres, profiles of businesses, job trends, employment data, career related profiles of the individual communities that make up York Region, and much more.
York Catholic District School Board OYAP program
York Catholic District School Board's website offers information about apprenticeships, the Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP) and provides detailed descriptions of 130 of the most commone apprenticeship occupations.
Durham Region Skilled Trades information and resources
This website offers information about apprenticeship training and skilled trades careers in Durham Region. The website also provides trades profiles and case studies.
Apprenticeship Information in Southern Ontario
This website offers information about the skilled trades and facilitates the match between people looking for skilled trades employment and apprenticeship opportunities, and employers offering apprenticeship training and jobs. It is available to employers and job seekers in Peel-Halton-Dufferin, Hamilton & area, Kitchener/Waterloo area, Niagara & area, and Brant-Haldimand/Norfolk only at present.
Canadian Steel Trade and Employment Congress
This is the website of the Canadian Steel Trade and Employment Congress. It contains information about the steel industry in Canada and provides career information as well as information about the Youth Employment program.
The Alliance of Sector Councils
This website has relevant career information in various sectors of the economy and includes a full list of industry sector councils in Canada.
Fearless Learning Workshops for Teachers and Students
"At Fearless Learning, we are actors and educators who have done our homework. We have worked the hundreds of kids, teachers and administrators. We know what is needed in today's schools. All our workshops and interactive performances are based upon the following credo: Respect Yourself! Respect Others! We have amazing programs for Co-op and At-Risk kids and have created a successful Stop the Bullying program for all grade levels. Click here to find out more (link to coop flyer) or visit our website at www.fearlesslearningcanada.com.
The Second City
Second City Creative Education provides workshops for Coop Teachers, workshops for students in grades 3 through 12 which focus on developing communication and life skills, training for school teachers, administrators and staff, and a stage show created specifically for students.
Apprenticeship Subject Pathways
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/training/apprenticeship/skills/pathwaye.pdf
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/fre/training/apprenticeship/skills/pathwayf.pdf
These Web sites, Apprenticeship Subject Pathways, in English and French are resources that will help educators, students, and parents determine which English, mathematics, and science secondary school courses would most benefit students who intend to begin an apprenticeship upon graduation. If you have questions about this document, please contact Anne Sasman, at anne.sasman@edu.gov.on.ca
Ministry of Education - Ontario Prospects Website
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/general/elemsec/job/prospect/index.html
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/fre/general/elemsec/job/prospect/index.html
These websites, Ontario Prospects in English and French, are guides for career planning for high school students, counsellors, teachers, youth, and others interested in career information. Hard copies are sent to all high schools each year in Ontario.
Government of Canada Youth Employment Initiative
This website is the government of Canada youth employment initiative site. It is aimed at youth 15 to 30 years of age. Whether you need a hand finding a job or would like to start your own business, it is all here at your fingertips on youth.gc.ca! On this site, you will find information ranging from health and education programs to sports and cultural activities. Best of all, these services are specific to the community in which you live.
TV Ontario Independent Learning Centre's CareerMATTERSs website
CareerMATTERS is all about helping you make smart choices as you think about your education, training and career options. You'll find:
- the entire Ontario English high school curriculum and a Student Planner that helps you track your progress toward your diploma
- highlights of apprenticeship training, college, university and other post-secondary programs
- 513 job descriptions, many with videos featuring real people out in the workforce
- hundreds of links to outside resources
- an Assessment Quiz to help you recognize your talents and strengths.
VECTOR project
VECTOR (Video Explorations of Careers, Transitions, Opportunities and Realities) is a video vignette library that profiles individual Canadians in the workplace. It shows them at work, describing the nature of their job and conditions of their workplace. VECTOR project partners, in collaboration with 16 sector councils, have produced 120 occupations to date identifying careers/occupations that would be of interest to youth and that currently face, or will soon face, labour market shortages. VECTOR will also be available on the Internet (www.vector.cfee.org)
www.mazemaster.on.ca
This Web site, funded by Human Resources Development Canada and sponsored by the Toronto Catholic District School Board, is a unique career and job exploration tool that is aimed at Youth ages 15-29 and provides information on self assessment, labour market information, training and education, self employment, job search techniques, and job postings.
Ontario Power Generation's website including the TradeUp Career Education kit
(http://www.opg.com/education/)
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has launched the "LearningZone", an educational web site on opg.com for students, parents and educators. Content includes:
- Information on electricity and generating power.
- Careers at OPG.
- Famous scientists who changed the world we live in by discovering the secrets of electricity.
- OPG history and public power in Ontario.
- Energy and the environment and how to work and play safe.
- For educators....teaching modules, electricity inspired projects and experiments.
The entire TradeUp Career Education kit is available in downloadable soft copy from www.opg.com.
Ontario Labour Market information (http://www.gov.on.ca/ont/portal/!ut/p/.cmd/cs/.ce/7_0_A/.s/7_0_252/_s.7_0_A/7_0_252/_l/en?docid=EC001100)
This Government of Canada website from Service Canada (formerly HRSDC) provides up-to-date and relevant labour market information for students, jobseekers and employers.
Carpenters' Local Union 27 (www.corcc.com)
Do you have the tools to make it as a carpenter? Carpenters' Local 27 Joint Apprenticeship & Training Trust Fund Inc. has information about entry into and careers in the carpentry sector. It is alabour-management training centre located in Woodbridge, Ontario which was established to serve the human resources development needs of both the Local Union 27 membership and its employers. Since its inception in 1986, the Training Trust Fund has offered an extensive variety of pre-apprenticeship, apprenticeship, health and safety, and journey-worker upgrading courses to thousands of students.
Joint Apprenticeship Council - Electrical Apprenticeship Training (www.electricalapprenticeship.ca)
The Joint Apprenticeship Council is a recognized Local Apprenticeship Committee (L.A.C.) under the direction of Local Union 353 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (I.B.E.W.) and the Greater Toronto Electrical Contractors Association (Greater Toronto ECA). Its mission is to help those applicants interested in pursuing apprenticeships within the Construction Maintenance Sector and the Low Rise Residential Sector.
Ontario Electrical League (www.oel.org)
The Ontario Electrical League is a non-profit, Provincial Organization, dedicated to 23 Chapters with over 2500 members from the Electrical Industry. League members include electrical contractors, electricians, municipal utilities, electrical inspectors, distributors, manufacturers, manufacturers’ representatives, consulting engineers and educators. There are education and training links on the website, as well as a 'find a contractor' search option on the home page.
The Canadian Plastics Sector Council (www.careersinplastics.ca)
The Canadian Plastics industry employs over 100,000 people across Canada and is a fast-growing sector. The Plastics Career Kit contains key information about the plastics industry and potential career paths. It highlights different occupations within the plastics industry. The free kit includes a student guide, a teacher's guide, and an interactive CD-ROM.
Ontario Tourism Education Corporation - Careers in Tourism (www.otec.org) Tourism is a fast-growing industry which offers a wide range of career opportunities. The OTEC website provides programs, such as the Service Excellence certification, resources for career planning and educational materials available to schools. Click on the link above for more information.
Canadian Bankers Association plays an important role in providing information to the public on the banking industry and financial issues. Their Consumer Information section provides helpful information to Canadians about banking and today's financial world. Industry policies and codes of practice affecting consumers are also available. Click on the link below for free resources on topics including Getting Started in Small Business; Helping You Bank: an introduction to bank accounts, shopping for a bank account and ways of banking; Managing Money: A guide to budgeting, credit use and avoiding money mishaps, and other financial subjects. http://www.cba.ca/en/publication_list.asp
Ontario Job Futures is a publication which provides information on the current trends and future outlook for 163 occupations common to Ontario. It is a joint effort of the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada. Click on the link to access this information: www.ontariojobfutures.net
Ontario Labour Market information (http://www.gov.on.ca/ont/portal/!ut/p/.cmd/cs/.ce/7_0_A/.s/7_0_252/_s.7_0_A/7_0_252/_l/en?docid=EC001100) This Government of Canada website from Service Canada (formerly HRSDC) provides up-to-date and relevant labour market information for students, jobseekers and employers.
Canadian Labour Market Information: A team of professionals from all parts of Canada provides the information available in this Labour Market information site. They work mostly in local Service Canada / Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) offices in all parts of the country, to answer questions you might have about the labour markets in Canadian communities. On this site, you will find detailed labour market information at the local or community level and information about community specific labour market trends and opportunities. Click on the link: www.labourmarketinformation.ca
Jobs in Health Care: www.medhunters.com is a website offering up-to-date information about jobs in the healthcare sector throughout North America.
Job Connect agencies in the City of Toronto and throughout Ontariooffer workshops and services to young people looking for work. Every secondary school is matched with a Job Connect agency. Click here to find out which Job Connect agency is attached to each Toronto District School Board and Toronto Catholic District School Board secondary school.
If your school is not listed, call the toll-free Employment Ontario Hotline at 1-800-387-5656 for the name of the organization delivering Job Connect in your area or visit www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/tcu/apprentices/jobconnect.html.
Workshops Offered by Job Connect include:
- Resume and Cover Letter Workshop
- Interview Workshop
- Service Excellence Workshop
- Smart Serve®
- Job Maintenance Workshop
- Fall Protection
- Serve Safe
- Office Experiential
- Cash Register Training
Services Offered by Job Connect include:
- Year Round Student Job Fairs
- Part Time and Full Time Job Postings
- Summer Jobs Service Student Placement
- Apprenticeship Information and Placement
- Job Posting Services
- Resource Centre Services, incl. Fax, internet and phone access
- Referrals to Job Development
- Extended Hours Resource Centre
We hope that you find these resources valuable. If you have any suggestions or questions, please contact the Passport to Prosperity program at The Learning Partnership by emailing passport2prosperity@thelearningpartnership.ca or by calling 416-440-5100 and asking for a Passport to Prosperity staff member.
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