Part A: Choices for Nine Optional Attendance and Timelines

Part B: Messages for Success

Part C: Ontario Secondary School Program

The Transition from Grade 8 to 9Presentation Overview

Check out Education Planning at

www.tdsb.on.ca/goingtohighschool

Accessing myBlueprint

www.myBlueprint.ca/tdsb

Part A

Optional Attendance and Timelines

Choices for Nine(October)

Choices: Secondary Schools Course Selection & Planning Guide

(January with course selection sheets)

Choices: Planning Guides

Find Your School

www.tdsb.on.caClick on “Find your School”

High School Information Evenings (dates & times) are listed in the Choices for Nine brochure and posted on the TDSB website:

Information Nights at TDSBHigh Schools

www.tdsb.on.ca/GoingtoHighSchool

Where and What are theSpecialized Programs?

• Check the Choices for Nine legend• www.tdsb.on.ca/HighSchool/Guidance/Choices

Information Nights atSpecialized Schools

• Specialized programs and designed for students with a strong passion and skill in a specific area

• To investigate specialized schools or programs, contact the specific school for admission requirements

• Specialized requirements may include auditions, tests, interviews, etc.

• Check deadline dates for applications

Optional Attendance• Students are encouraged to attend the secondary

school that serves their residential address – “home-school”

• Use an Optional Attendance Application Form when applying

to a school other than your home-school (forms available at

Grade 8 school)

• Students may apply to :- two regular schools- two specialized programs

• Some schools are CLOSED to Optional Attendance

www.tdsb.on.ca/FindyourSchool/OptionalAttendance

Specific DatesFebruary

• January 31, 2014 - Optional Attendance applications due to secondary schools – delivered by student/parent/guardian

• February 14, 2014 - Secondary schools will inform Optional Attendance applicants

• Mid to late February 2014 - Course Selection sheets completed and returned to current school counsellor

• February 28, 2014 - All course selection sheets due to secondary schools – delivered by current school counsellor

Only ONE course selection sheet per studentis submitted for ONE secondary school

Part B

Messages for Success

Key Message for Key Message for SuccessSuccessKey Message for Key Message for SuccessSuccess

““16 by 16”16 by 16”16 credits by16 years of age

The Importance of Credit Accumulation

Where do students go aftersecondary school?

Part C

Ontario Secondary School

•Once a course is passed, a credit is granted (50% or higher)

•Students are expected to take 8 courses a year

•To graduate from high school a student must earn 30 credits

Credit System

• Total of 30 course credits

- 18 compulsory courses - 12 elective courses (options)

• 40 hrs. Community Involvement

- Begins in July after Grade 8

• Ontario Literacy Requirement

- Written Test in Grade 10 (OSSLT)

Ontario Secondary SchoolDiploma (OSSD)

~ Ontario Schools, Kindergarten to Grade 12:

Policy & Program Requirements, 2011

Compulsory Credits Compulsory CreditsStudents must earn the following 15 compulsory credits:

• 4 English - one credit per grade• 1 French as a Second Language• 3 Mathematics - at least one in grade 11 or 12• 2 Science• 1 Canadian History• 1 Canadian Geography• 1 Arts (Visual Arts, Music, Integrated Arts, Media, Drama or

Dance)• 1 Health and Physical Education • 0.5 Civics• 0.5 Career Studies

Compulsory Credits Continued

Compulsory Credits Continued

Plus ONE CREDIT from each of the following 3 Groups:

Group 1• An additional English credit

or French as a second language*,or third language,

or Social Science and Humanities credit, or Canadian and World Studies credit,

or Guidance and Career Education credit, or Cooperative Education credit*

*A maximum of 2 credits in Cooperative Education and 2 credits in

French can count as compulsory credits.

Group 2• One credit in Health and Physical Education, or the Arts,

or Business Studies, or French as a second language or Cooperative Education *

Group 3• One credit in Gr. 11 or 12 Science, or a credit in

Technological Education, or Computer Studies, or French as a second language or Cooperative Education *

* A maximum of 2 credits in Cooperative Education and 2 credits in French can count as compulsory credits.

Compulsory Credits Continued

Compulsory Credits Continued

• Open

• Applied

• Academic

• Locally Developed Compulsory Credit

(LDCC)

Course Types in Grade 9 and 10:

Making your choices: Making your choices: choose success!choose success!

• Learning expectations are the same for all students

• Designed to prepare students for further study and to enrich general education in a subject • Can be counted as compulsory or elective credits

• Grade 9 Open Courses at Zion Include:

Physical Education Arts (Music, Visual Arts, Drama, Integrated Arts)BusinessExploring TechnologiesExploring Family StudiesIntroductory French

What is an Open Course?

Academic Courses

Cover the core content and havean emphasis on the theoreticalaspects of the content

Applied Courses

Cover the core content and havean emphasis on practicalapplications

Academic & Applied Courses

Work HabitsSample

Academic•Works

independently in a focused manner

• Synthesis skills – uses prior knowledge and experience to assist with solving problems

• Completes homework consistently and thoroughly

Applied•Works in a focused manner (not always independently)

•Applies new learning to tasks (may need reminding of previous knowledge)

•May need assistance to organize and complete homework

Locally Developed•Works in a

focusedmanner with prompting

•Applies new learning to tasks that have been directly modeled in the lesson

•May begin homework in class with direction and take home to complete

Changing Course Type After Grade 9:

Gr. 9 Academic

Gr. 9 Applied

Gr. 9 LDCC

Gr. 10 Academic

Gr. 10 Applied

Gr. 10 LDCC

(except Mathematics)

Changing Course Type After Grade 9:

Gr. 9 Academic

Gr. 9 Applied

Gr. 9 LDCC

Gr. 10 Academic

Gr. 10 Applied

Gr. 10 LDCC

Gr. 9 Applied to Gr. 10 Academic Mathematics

(Transfer Course worth 0.5 credit)

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Grades 9 and 10AppliedAcademicLocally DevelopedOpen

Grades 11 and 12CollegeUniversityWorkplaceMixed

Making Your Choices

Zion’s Grade 9 CourseSelection Sheets

Distributed in class the week of February 3rd

with teacher recommendations

Due in homeroom by February 20th

Current Grade 8 Zion students will complete course selection on-line usingwww.myBlueprint.ca/tdsb

Accessing myBlueprint

www.myBlueprint.ca/tdsb

Search for Course Descriptions

www.tdsb.on.ca/choices