Career/LifeSkills Resources Inc.

http://career-lifeskills.com
The Canadian Student & Grab Job Directory, 12th edition
Canada’s Best Directory for  Getting that Vital First Job

The Canadian Hidden Job Market Directory, 6th edition
Canada’s best Directory for Finding the Unadvertised Jobs

The Canadian Summer Job Directory, 3rd edition
Canada’s Best Directory for Finding Work in the Summer

Get Wired, You’re Hired! 3rd edition
The Canadian Internet Job Search  Guide

The Brain from Top to bottom

McGill University’s website on the brain functions and its links to science content and competencies.
http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/index_d.html

Employability Skills Toolkit

The employability Skills Toolkit for the self-managing Learner is a suit of pratical tools designed to help learners use and develop the skills needed to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.

The Toolkit offers practical support for managing lifelong learning for personal growth and workplace success, and provides Canadians with much-needed information about what employability skills look like and exemples of ways they can develop and demonstrate their skills at home, school, work and in community.

Copies of the Toolkit can be obtained by contacting our publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. Toll Free order Line : 1-800-565-5758   http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/

Canadian Career Development Foundation www.ccdf.ca (to download the form)

Career Portfolio production - Workbook and CD Code SB CPW
Adult Back-to-School Planner- Code LRC 462094
Brave Work-A guide to the quest for meaning in work - Code CCDF 001

Alberta’s Career Shop  www.alis.gov.ab.ca/careershop/main.asp
Employment Standards Information for English as a Second Language (ESL) and Low Literacy

Essential skills into the curriculum
www.schooltocareer.ca - Halton Industry Education Council

Career/Lifeskills
www.clrs.ca - Career Building Resources

ADRIQ

Since 1999, the Association de la recherche industrielle du Québec (ADRIQ) has been organizing school tours to promote technnological and scientific careers in the Secondary Cycle Two and in CEGEP. With respect to this tour, guest speakers share their challenges and successes for approximately one hour presentations. The targeted group is students aged between 14 and 19 years old.  The guest speakers working in various technoscience sectors present job trends in the new economy.  Since 1999, over 3000 professionals have participated.  This activity is free.  Please consult the free students, employer and teacher guides for more information.
http://www.adriq.com/RELÈVE/GUIDESETDÉPLIANTS/tabid/104/Default.aspx

The adventures of Rafale

Governement of Quebec, Développement durable, Environnement et Parc.
This is a website aimed at sensitizing bilingual youth to job opportunities at the government level.  Pedagogical activities, games and questionnaires are offered. You can also become a member of the website.  Please consult the following address: http://www.mddep.gouv.qc.ca/jeunesse/index.htm

Université de Montréal

Teachers originating from cultural communities and who provide a wealth of knowledge and expertise in their respective school milieu. 

La Bourse pour la diversité culturelle - it is geared for individuals from various cultural communities.  Students are allocated a bursary of 3000 $ (non-renewal) for students who wish to pursue a Bachelor in Education at the Université de Montréal.  Please consult the following website. Deadline, March 31st, 2009. http://www.scedu.umontreal.ca/cout/Boursepourladiversiteculturelle.html

Two New CFEE Websites for Teachers

Canadian Foundation for Economic Education (CFEE) has just completed work on a new web site called the Virtual Adviser. It is designed to support teachers and community service agencies working to help students and Canadians who face money- and work-related challenges and questions. The Virtual Adviser can also be used, independently, by students and agency clients. The Virtual Adviser provides plain language answers to about 70 common questions that people have about MONEY and about 50 common questions that people have about WORK. Links to further information about many of the questions are also provided. Users can also submit suggested material for possible posting on the site.
We hope you will take a moment to check out the Virtual Adviser at www.virtualadviser.ca and let us know what you think. We would also appreciate it if you would pass this e-mail on to others who might be interested in such an on-line tool. You can also check out CFEE's other new web site, the Building Futures Network at www.buildingfuturesnetwork.com. This site focuses on saving - in particular, the challenges of saving for post-secondary education and training. A Planning Guide is also available to help students and their families plan for these future expenses. It is available in hard copy or can be downloaded from the web site. There will soon be an interactive on-line version as well. At this time, access to a calculator enables users to help determine the cost of post-secondary education. Finally, for those of you who may not have seen it yet, CFEE produces the Online Classroom Edition of the Globe and Mail, which provides selected articles each month along with complete lesson plans - all free and downloadable - and you can photocopy the articles for educational purposes.
You can visit the site at www.classroomedition.ca.

NEW PUBLICATION – WORK-BASED LEARNING: BRIDGING KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION IN THE WORKPLACE

Jossey-Bass, ISBN: 978-0-470-18256-7
By Joseph A. Raelin

Joe Raelin’s new and revised book, Work-Based Learning, will show you how to learn collectively with others who wish to develop their own
capability.  Recognizing the limits of a pure classroom model, work-based learning is acquired in the midst of practice but expressly intersects knowledge with experience.  It offers you an opportunity to overcome time pressures by reflecting upon and learning from the artistry of your own action. 

Available now from:                                

Wiley:
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470182563.html

Jossey-Bass:
http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470182563.html

Young People Fully Involved in their Success

http://www.jeunes.gouv.qc.ca/strategie/documents/strategie-action-jeunesse-2006-2009_en.pdf
Objectives: To encourage Work-Oriented Training Path Program students to explore their professional interests and to discover various elements of the working work.  This inventory will also assist them in selecting a workplace setting for their stage.  There are 80 photographs of various works, educational strategies and a guide for teachers.  The workers represent fields in the non-specialized and semi-specialized trades.

 

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