Anthony’s Work Samples

In order to develop competency in the Exploration of Vocational Training course, students are exposed to many things:

Activities: target specific knowledge or skills that will need to be applied in context of explorations of the vocational sectors and trades.
Graphic organizers guide their thinking processes, helping them internalize ways of thinking and doing.
Evaluation Checklists: help establish criteria and individual student goals.
Reflection: often guided by questions to help students focus on making particular connections between themselves and their learning as well as connections between the two competencies being developed.

Anthony's Work Samples

“Whatever the format of the learning and evaluation file, it provides inforAnthonyon on the student's main achievements and feedback from teachers and peers as well as from the student. The feedback, whether it is in the form of assessment grids or various comments, reflects the strengths and aspects to be improved in learning. The information presented also makes it possible to observe the progress made by the student. It is advisable to involve the student in preparing the learning and evaluation file, and he or she should be given specific information on the nature of the documents to be included therein.
The primary goal of the LEF is to connect learning and evaluation—hence its name: learning and evaluation file. When built into the learning process, evaluation is an excellent means of both learning and teaching, and plays a vital role in regulation and feedback, helping the learner to become more independent and all the while, developing competency within a specific subject area.”

(Policy on the evaluation of learning at the secondary level, p 88).

Student: Anthony
Term 1

How to read Anthony’s Work Samples

Anthony is an Explo student working through his first career exploration.
Click through Anthony’s learning artifacts, the traces of his competency development.
As you do so, you will see how Anthony moves through his career exploration and how the teacher guides his competency development by intervening with activities and suggesting resources at various times in the term.

Competencies in action, learning artifacts in Anthony’s Work Samples

Much learning takes place in the Explo classroom, the most important of which is that Anthony begins to learn about the 21 vocational sectors and the world of work while also trying his hand at various trades and occupations with hands on-tasks and reflecting on his suitability for vocational training as he gets to know himself more in the context of vocational training;
Anthony learns to go back and forth in his exploration and reflects on her learning, himself, his next steps, etc.

The role of the teacher (Ms. B) in Anthony’s competency development and Work Samples

Ms. B, Anthony’s Explo teacher, keeps observation notes of Anthony’s progress.
Ms. B also plans for moments to build on specific skills and knowledges through activities and by providing resources to Anthony and his classmates.
Anthony and the other students in the Explo class are guided to leave traces of their learning in various ways, using graphic organizers, documenting reflection, using photographs, completing evaluation artifacts such as checklists, etc.
Last, Ms. B evaluates Anthony’s Work Samples in various ways: feedback, criteria checklist, etc.

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