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Welcome to the Guidance-Oriented Approach to Learning (GOAL) home page for the English language schools in Québec.  The Guidance-Oriented Approach to Learning is viewed by many as the final, integrating piece of the reform of the curriculum for schools and centres. It supports the lifelong learning philosophy that career-life planning is a long-term personal commitment that must be inculcated early in a child's life and reinforced in adults through relevant, experiential and reflective activities that link the individual's development of self-knowledge and self-direction to the community in which he/she lives. Setting up the appropriate dynamic environment that nurtures this growth in students of all ages is the responsibility of a team of educators, led by the guidance counsellor and the school principal or centre director.


This website was created to support your GOAL initiatives within your schools and school boards. Information has been collected and assembled in sections to assist you in this process.


 

What's new with GOAL


GOAL Symposium

Here is a presentation from Keynote speaker, Josée Battista, Layer at Rio Tinto and past Secretary General at Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board.


Communications and documents from the GOAL Symposium, February 17th, 2010 at the Sheraton Laval.  Notes from the Partnership Agreement with School Boards session (see Powerpoint attached).


The Incubator Project's new website


By Sam Asmar, Entrepreneurship Awareness and Promotional Officer at the Carrefour Jeunesse Emploi - Ouest-de-l'île
http://www.321incubator.com/teachers/why-use-the-incubator.html



Program Environmental Education and Citizenship (PEEC)

The National Film Board of Canada has done a documentary on the PEEC. The film, « HOPE BUILDERS » will be launched on February 20th coming in Montreal. Here is the link on the film's review: http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=57375




Program Environmental Education and Citizenship (PEEC) published by the Canadian Education Association.

This article http://www.learnquebec.ca/export/sites/learn/en/content/mels/
goal/documents/PEEC_EdCanSum05_Poudrier_Eng_Final.pdf makes connections between GOAL, the QEP and the environment.  Please note that Claude Poudrier, Director of PEEC, will be presenting at the GOAL Symposium on February 17th.




Prelude tools on the new Heliotrope website  

www.heliotrope.ca
Heliotrope is an international social enterprise based in Canada. It was founded in 2004 to promote a new kind of learning game called Prelude. Prelude is designed for Schools, Community Agencies, and Workplace Training. It helps foster skills such as self-knowledge, creative thinking, and cooperation. These skills are essential for success in today’s global knowledge economy. During the game, players learn to see themselves, each other, and life in a positive light. Whether a player is 12, 20, or 40, Prelude can be revelatory and transformative. It’s great fun too! Training is also easy and fast.  For the 2009-2010, Eastern Townships School Board is piloting Prelude with all the Secondary Cycle One, Year One students.  Prelude is available on the new Heliotrope website and remove tools.




New ministerial action plan

http://www.mels.gouv.qc.ca/sections/reussitescolaire/index_en.asp

ALL TOGETHER FOR STUDENT SUCCESS
“I care about school!”
In the past several years, the government and the education community have devoted substantial resources to encouraging young people to stay in school, but there are still too many students who leave school without a diploma or other qualifications. The urgent need for action has been brought up several times in recent months, for example, at the Assises régionales sur la persévérance scolaire, an initiative of the Fédération des commissions scolaires du Québec, and by the Groupe d’action sur la persévérance et la réussite scolaires au Québec, led by L. Jacques Ménard, President of BMO Financial Group.

We must do everything possible to improve the graduation rate, first of all for the young people themselves, whose future depends directly on their education, and also for Québec, which needs its young people in order to meet the social, economic and cultural challenges facing it. Encouraged by the support that has been expressed by civil society, the government intends to pursue this objective.

The various people who have recently contributed to the discussion of ways to reduce the number of school dropouts appear to agree on two observations.

Firstly, it has become clear that schools alone can no longer assume the entire responsibility for helping students to stay in school and succeed: the reasons students leave school are often outside the school, and it is impossible to make progress without close cooperation from parents, the community and the working world. Furthermore, improving the situation requires that everyone involved share a common vision and that they forge links in order to work together, school by school and region by region. In the course of the coming months, we plan to take the necessary actions to mobilize parents, the education community and other players around shared objectives.

Secondly, it has become necessary to promote education more, particularly within the public system, so that success in school becomes a fundamental value of our society. Promoting education means demonstrating the high value of education, but also giving students activities and projects that can elicit their full involvement and lead to success.

Students need to know that we are behind them and we believe in them; we have to show our solidarity with their efforts and our pride in their success. I suggest we all adopt the slogan “I care about school!”

One reality, one objective, various means: let us be partners in our children’s success.

Michelle Courchesne 




National Entrepreneurship Day's website

National Entrepreneurship Day will be taking place during the week of November 12th with entrepreneurs, GO Venture simulation games and CLC collaborations.
http://www.cjereseau.org/ned/anglais/index.php



Tune In Academos Newsletter - September-October 2009 Edition

http://www.academos.qc.ca/?74FC7020-90C8-42AB-
9201-EA39A199696D&lang=EN

 

CEGEP admission 2010-2011

Pre-requisites for CEGEP admission 2010-2011 for guidance counsellors,consultants and teachers.



GOAL Symposium 2010

Please note that the online registration for the GOAL Symposium which will be held on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 will be made available by the end of November. All networks of teachers (both elementary and high school), consultants, teachers and directors of service are invited to attend this special edition on The GOAL:   Mapping out the future of our learners!



ECO Canada's facilitator's kit

ECO Canada is a non-profit dedicated to providing educational resources on the environmental sector
labour market information and careers.  Here is the website: www.eco.ca.
Attached you will find a copy of the ECO Canada's facilitator's kit designed to introduce students in Canadian high schools to the potential of choosing careers in the environmental sector.  The theme of "It's Your Environment.  Make It Your Career." is an expression of the idea that environment-related work is all around us.  This document focuses ontwo areas of study: Career Planning and Environment.  Curriculum references and resources are provided as well.
The powerpoint presentation on environmental careers and employment is aimed at teachers and students.

 

Electronic and Print Career Resources for POP 

Updated list of GOAL-related online and print resources.

 

RECIT (Réseau pour le développement des compétences par l'intégration des TIC)

Recit has announced the GOAL Network
in his main page!   http://recitdevprof.qc.ca

For materials learning situations and references on the Career Development Subject Area. Please note that the GOAL website is in reference as well.
Récit pour le domaine du développement professionnel
-Communauté de partage. For more information or to subscribe to the Récit : http://recitdevprof.qc.ca/forum


Math and Science inventories from Central Quebec School Board

Semi-Specialized Skilled Training and Preparation for Work evaluation forms from Central Quebec School Board

 

Guidance Counsellors Math options

It is a supplementary document for guidance counsellors with respect to math placement created by Franca Redivo-Covo, Math Consultant from Lester B. Pearson School Board.


Activities at C.S. des Affluents
Presentations given at the Colloque sur l'Approche orientante - March 2009
Exploration of semi-specializes trades Activities and Inventories in C.S. des Affluents presented by Julie Dusseault and Renée Boileau.
http://www.csaffluents.qc.ca/sre/fenetre


New website

A new website is now available on careers in justice.
Student lawyers are available to present the various aspects of law and justice in classrooms. www.careersinjustice.qc.ca




Newest additions:
The GOAL Post Newsletter, Winter 2010

 

Press Release:
The REAL GAME, Career and Life Skills Education just a Click away!
- National Life Work.


Mission and strategic plan

The mission of the GOAL Network is to support GOAL coordinators in the development, implementation and training with respect to GOAL and its curriculum links.  The GOAL Network meets three times a year, organizes in-service sessions, a professional development day or symposium, a ebulletin, a website and other resources to integrate GOAL into the curriculum and in community activities.  Please note that we will be working towards developing learning and evaluation situations for the secondary cycle two transitions, math sequences and career choices. To consult the GOAL coordinators in your school board or in any other school board, please consult the document attached. To consult the GOAL Network Strategic Plan 2008-2009, please see the document attach: GOAL strategic plan. 

To access the latest list of GOAL coordinators for 2008-2009, please consult the list attached.  For more information on GOAL or to receive support in developing a GOAL-oriented strategic plan, GOAL activities and GOAL-oriented teams, please contact your school board's GOAL Coordinator.

To learn more about the GOAL Network's Strategic Plan for 2008-2009, see consult document attached. 

GOAL Strategic Plan

Please note that the website will be updated throughout the 2008-2009 school year..  We are open to your contributions and projects.  For more information, please contact Sandra Salesas, Provincial GOAL Coordinator at 514-873-3339 ext. 5510 or by email at sandra.salesas@mels.gouv.qc.ca.  We will be having a section on school boards's GOAL initiatives.

To learn more about GOAL-related POP information and tools, please consult the POP website.


Stay tuned for the GOAL Network - Société GRICS collaboration on the development of GOAL- driver learning situations. The intention of these learning situations is to prepare students for high school and for the choice of math courses in Secondary Cycle Two. These activities should be available at the Spring 2009.

A priority of the GOAL Network is to develop learning and evaluation situations in order to prepare students for the passage from elementary to high school and from Secondary Cycle One to Secondary Cycle Two. Members of the GOAL Network and of the Banque d'instruments de mesures (BIM) from the Société GRICS have identified teachers from two schools, namely Queen of Angels and Lester B. Pearson High School. We have been meeting from several months (5-7 days in total) to develop GOAL-driven learning activities aimed at preparing atudents for key decisions concerning Secondary Cycle Two paths and math ans science courses. These decision will be pivotal for making choices about programs of study ans related careers of trades. We want GOAL to become a common language for teachers and for them to use learning situations to encourage students to make those meaningfull connections between school and work and subjects and skill sets. These learning situations will be made available in the Spring of 2009. They will be posted on the LEARN and on the GRICS website. Workshops are planned to support teachers in facilitating decision-making processes for an adolescent's.

Brief description of the two learning and evaluation situations.
Secondary Cycle One, Year One LES: In summary, LES #1 focuses on self-exploration activities such as discovering one's personality characteristics, skills ans learning styles. Once these inventories are completed, students use a personal profile organizer to record responses. In the second segment, students write a poem about themselves based on the first learning activities. Then they are given assignments to prepare a spoken text on a nonconformist poem. They are also asked to prepare a final presentation for the group. The students will be assigned a processfolio and ther will be an accompanying teacher guide.

Secondary Cycle One, Year Two LES: In summary LES #2 focuses on engaging students to examine uncommon career case studies to understand the importance of math in most careers or work sectors. Sharing is done in the classroom. They are then asked to indicate how their readings led them to consider certain careers with or without direct mathematical applications. Then they are asked to explore their math interests and strengths via inventory. Finally, they are asked to research an uncommon career based on a given list organized by work sectors. They are then given a checklist to work on a multimedia project which will highlight their findings. This multimedia project will presented to parents and to peers.

NEW! Secondary Cycle Two Year One LES will be developed in the Fall 2009 to prepare students in deciding on their math and science options.


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