Course Planning EveningGrade 10-11 & 11-12

Agenda

Introductions

Trades, ACE-IT, WEX

Grad Transitions

Creating the timetable

Webpage, course booklet, new courses

Graduation Requirements

Online Communities

Math Choices

Second Language Choices

Career & Post-Secondary Searches

Post-Secondary

Provincial Exams & Scholarships

Newsletter

Questions

ACE-IT, SSA & WEX

Grad Transitions

Online Course – Mr. Yamamura See the Elphi webpage under Mr. Yamamura Timelines for each stage of GT Required for graduation

30 hours of work or volunteer Transition Plan Active Living

Timetable

Course Selection – Feb.

Common timetable

Master Timetable Building – March/April

Counsellors - individual timetables – May/June

Timetables Distributed – June or Sept.

Webpage & Course Booklets

Grad Requirements & Grade 11/12

Grade 10: English, SS, Science, Math, PE, Planning

English/Communications 11, SS 11, a Science 11, a Math 11

English/Communications 12, 3 grade 12 electives, and Grad Transitions

One fine art/applied skills elective over grade 10-12

80 credit minimum – 52 required, 28 elective

Online Communities 11

Bridge between Planning 10 and Grad Transitions

Online course with Mr. MacPherson

See website under Mr. MacPherson’s name

Post-secondary & professional presentation is online & students now require these skills

Math in Relation to Post-Secondary

Institution-specific & program-specific

Some examples: UBC Vancouver: General Requirement for all

programs: Pre-Calc 11 or Foundations 12 Commerce – Pre-Calc 12 Arts – Pre-Calc 11 or Foundations 12 Science & Engineering – Pre-Calc 12 Kinesiology – Pre-Calc 11 or Foundations 12 (+ one of

PreCalc 12, Geology 12, Bi 12, Chem 12, Physics 12 + 2 other 12 academics)

Math Examples Continued

UBC Okanagan No blanket requirement

Science and Engineering – Pre-Calc 12 Arts – none Nursing – Pre-Calc 11 or Foundations 12 Management – Pre-Calc 12 Human Kinetics – Pre-Calc 11 or Foundations 12

More Math . . .

SFU Foundations 11 for all Arts-based programs (60%

minimum) Pre-Calculus 12 for Science & Business

UVic Business, Science, Engineering – Pre-Calc 12 Humanities & Social Sciences – Foundations 11 or Pre-

Calc 11 Fine Arts – 3 of - language or math or science or fine art

Math Again

TRU Arts – any math 11 Nursing – Foundations 12 preferred Science – Pre-Calc 12 Business Administration – Foundations Math 12 BCIT – Program-specific

Second Language in Relation to Post-Secondary

UBC Vancouver – grade 11 language required

UBC Okanagan – no 2nd language required

SFU – Beginner language 11 or language 11

UVic – No second language requirement Fine Arts requirements asks for 3 of the following 4:

approved math 11, approved science 11, approved fine art 11 or second language 11

Career & Post-Secondary Searches

educationplanner.ca

careercruising.com Username: Elphinstone Password:careers

ArtEdOptions.ca

tradestrainingbc.ca

discovertradesbc.ca

learnnowbc.ca/trades/TradesFinder.aspx

All these are up on our school website

Post-Secondary

Critical to see the post-secondary institutions’ websites – things change every year and sometimes during the year

Arrange visits on pro-d days and holidays.

Go to open houses.

Watch deadlines for application dates, scholarship and bursary dates, and additional information required (transcripts, portfolios, personal profiles, auditions etc.)

Provincial Scholarships & Provincial Exams

Top 5000 students in BC, based on 5 exams

Must have completed courses to qualify

B overall in English 12

Recipients will be informed in October following graduation.

If a student wishes to rewrite an exam, s/he must do so by August 31 of the year in which s/he graduates.

Newsletters

Delivered to grade 12 classes, extras in counselling office

Posted to website under counsellors – grads

Lots of information

Questions?