part a: choices for nine optional attendance and timelines part b: messages for success part c:...
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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
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Check out Education Planning at
www.tdsb.on.ca/goingtohighschool
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Accessing myBlueprint
www.myBlueprint.ca/tdsb
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Part A
Optional Attendance and Timelines
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Choices for Nine(October)
Choices: Secondary Schools Course Selection & Planning Guide
(January with course selection sheets)
Choices: Planning Guides
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Find Your School
www.tdsb.on.caClick on “Find your School”
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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
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Where and What are theSpecialized Programs?
• Check the Choices for Nine legend• www.tdsb.on.ca/HighSchool/Guidance/Choices
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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
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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
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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
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Part B
Messages for Success
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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
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The Importance of Credit Accumulation
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Where do students go aftersecondary school?
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Part C
Ontario Secondary School
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•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
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• 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
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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
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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.
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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
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• 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!
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• 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?
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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Accessing myBlueprint
www.myBlueprint.ca/tdsb
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Search for Course Descriptions
www.tdsb.on.ca/choices