Summary of GOAL - QEP links session held last January 2008

GOAL - its definition and strategies in 2008 - please see attachment of key concepts and best practices

1) Work-Oriented Path Program - concerns and reflections

      -Provincial promotion of the programs to the business community

      -Adapting subject areas to the multi-leveled student

      -Developing community resources

      -What do wedo with students who failmath at the end of the pre-work training program

2) Issues to tackle within your evolving role -summary notes from the sub-groups

     How could you collaborate with your team to support students in their choices?

    -At the board level: Need to clarify roles and responsibilities regarding the sharing of information and communication needs to improve from the top to frontline

    -Need to work toward greater consistency across the board.

    -Pedagogicalconsultants need to have more opportunities to have direct contact with complementary services professionals, administrators and teachers.

     -At the school level: Each school has to find its own pace.

     -Need to create a permanent forum specific to pathways, GOAL, pedagogical renewal and community partnerships.

      How can I best accomodate this evolving role and how do I feel about it?

      -Hire more guidance counsellors

      -Sensitize administrators to GOAL in their respective strategic plan

      -Find new ways to work with teachers, students and parents regarding course and path choices and students' learning styles versus grades

       -Schedule time for teamwork

       How can you play a more active role within your school team?

       -Gather and share GOAL initiatives from school's teachers and beyond

       -Set up a GOAL committee (including administrators, guidance counsellors, teachers and peer coaches)

       -Create time, opportunities for staff development, such as GOAL

       -Coordination amongst schools

       -GOAL leadership

       -Sensitize parents

       -Identify and publicize GOAL activities and best practices

        What resources or documentation need to be developed?

        -Access to teachers and training

        -School-based GOAL teams

        -Breakdown departmental barriers

        -Promote sample lesson plans for POP teachers

        -Create board-wide forms for job shadowing opportunities, Student for a day, Work-Study Programs,etc.

        -Identify, list and post examples of how to integrate GOAL in every subject area and plan for the implementation of GOAL across all cycles
         in a way which is developmentally appropriate and innovative.

      What activities or initiatives can I be involved with?

        -Entrepreneurship initiatives

        -Linking GOAL practices in the classroom to personal awareness

        -Continue the initiatives started in POP in Grades 10 and 11

        -Encourage self-reflection across the curriculum

        -Modelling through equal participant and helping students and parents understand changes to the curriculum (ex. math and science)

         -Developing a GOAL idealogy into various courses & activities - GOAL resources to develop for the school

         -Facilitate, collaborate and form partnershiops between and within departmentsto improve and enhance GOAL

       What additional expertise could you contribute to your mandate?

         -Being involved as a team

         -Sharing our strengths

         -Accept leadershiop rolsand networks between boards

         -Youth advocates

         -Include more information on best practices from other schools and school boards

         -Clarify our respective mandate in relation to GOAL

    What changes do you see happening with your role?

      Who outside my school or school board can I collaborate with?

          -Academos, Chambre of Commerce, ADRIQ, CLD, Community Table, CEDEC, Carrefour Jeunesse Emploi and Emploi-Quebec

          -LEARN

         -CEGEPS and Universities

         -Community Learning Centres

         -Career Cruising

         -Social Justice Groups, Free The Children, Greenpeace, World Vision, Youth Philanthrophic Initiative

         - Jeune Explorateur d'un jour

          - Engineers without borders

         - Sector Councils