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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.
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
