By Keira McPhee
It’s a delicate balance trying to inspire high school students to think about their future careers and lives while also encouraging them to be realistic and practical about what’s possible. This is the goal of Bridges’ successful new website Choices Planner [www.bridges.com/us/prodnserv/educareerplan_hs.html].
Best Selling Author of What Next? – The Complete Guide to Taking Control of Your Working Life on her new on-line Career Advisor
Career Development: The Next Generation, University of Toronto, Career Centre, Toronto, ON. May 16, 2005
A new interactive board game, called The Career Learning Game, for use with Inuit students in Labrador was recently unveiled in St. John’s. It was developed by the Labrador Inuit Association in partnership with Memorial’s Department of Career Development and Experiential Learning and the Counselling Foundation of Canada. The Career Learning Game helps youth explore and learn about different career paths, and the education requirements needed for different career options
Find out more about the Career Learning Game at:
www.today.mun.ca/news.php?news_id=699
http://www.nunatsiavut.com/the-latest/newsletters
The Canadian Counselling Association is holding its annual national conference in St. John’s from May 24-27. This year’s theme is “The Roots of Resilience”. Complete details can be accessed at https://www.ccac.ca/.
Lisa Russell is the Seniors Arts Career Development Coordinator at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is the Atlantic Regional Voices Representative.
Have you heard about the new “Guidance-Oriented Approach to Learning” (GOAL) developed by the Quebec school boards? This new approach follows the Quebec Government’s decision to drop courses in career choices education from the curriculum. Students still have to go through some vocational reflections, but now there is no separate time, nor specific administrator devoted to this exercise. All teachers and other professionals in the school system can participate in some GOAL activities.
Relevant information on the Guidance-Oriented Approach to Learning is available in English at http://www.learnquebec.ca/goal1. However, because the Guidance-Oriented Approach (“l’approche orientante” as it better known) was initially developed at the French-language school boards, most resources are in French. Francophone readers can read more about l’approche orientante in the Spring Issue of the OrientAction Bulletin, to be released in May.
While Quebec was the first Canadian province to apply the GOAL, over the last couple of years New Brunswick has adapted the program and Ontario is now beginning implementation on an experimental basis. Stay tuned for more developments!
Nathalie Perreault is the Program and Content Manager for OrientAction
My Third Age: Work & Life Choices
Paul Stevens
Worklife Pty Ltd. (www.worklife.com.au), 2005
1 875134 51 4
My Third Age: Work & Life Choices is a workbook for mature workers (those over 45) ready to make a career shift.
Anger Treatment for People with Developmental Disabilities: A Theory, Evidence and Manual Based Approach
John L. Taylor
Wiley, May 2005
ISBN: 0470870052
By Robb Nickel
The Canadian Centre on Disability Studies (CCDS) is a consumer-directed, university-affiliated centre dedicated to research, education and information dissemination on disability issues. The Centre promotes full and equal participation of people with disabilities in all aspects of society. CCDS is guided by the philosophies of independent living and community living, emphasizing human rights, self-determination, interdependence, equality, a cross-disability focus, and full and valued participation in the community. Members of the disability community are key participants in directing CCDS policies and activities.
Access Guide Canada
http://enablelink.org/agc/index.php
ARCH: A Legal Resource Centre for Persons with Disabilities
www.archlegalclinic.ca/index.asp
Abilityinfo – Disability Information for Students and Professionals
www.abilityinfo.com
Disability Online
www.disabilityonline.com
Enabled Online – Connecting People with Disabilities
http://enabledonline.com/index.php
The Spinal Cord Injury Peer Information Library on Technology
www.scipilot.com/_g/home_g/index.shtml
Tetra Society of North America
www.tetrasociety.org
The Ties That Bind
www.tiesthatbind-nfb.ca/main.php
Abilities Festival
www.abilitiesfestival.org
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