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Course Planning: Grade 9 to 10
Outline
• Filling out your current courses
• Understanding graduation requirements
• Exploring course options for next year and beyond
• Filling out your course request form
• Entering course requests to MyEd BC
• What’s next?
Filling out your current courses- Each of you will receive a course request form
from me that looks like this:Start by filling out
your basic
information (e.g.
name, pupil
number, etc.).
Afterwards, circle
and write in all of
your current
courses and your
current teachers’
names
Graduation RequirementsTo graduate in B.C., you need to complete a total of 80
course credits (a full-year course is worth 4 credits)
• Below are courses you need to complete:
Language Arts 10, 11, 12 (12 credits)
Social Studies 10, 11/12 (8 credits)
Science 10, 11/12 (8 credits)
Mathematics 10, 11/12 (8 credits)
Physical & Health Ed 10 (4 credits)
Career Life Ed. 10 (4 credits)
Fine Arts/Applied Skills 10/11/12 (4)
* Grade 10/11 Electives (16 cr.)
* Grade 12 Electives (12 cr.)
Career Life Connections (4 cr.)
* Elective credits can be earned via additional “required” courses
Exploring Available Courses (1)A ‘typical’ grade 10 timetable would look
something like this:
Language Arts 10 Social Studies 10
Science 10 Mathematics 10
Physical Education 10 Career Life Ed (CLE) 10
Language 10 or Elective Elective
STEM and Mini have specific required and elective courses
You may choose an off-timetable course to “stretch” your
schedule so you can have one more elective course.
Exploring available courses (2)Starting in grade 10, some required courses have
different options for you to consider:
In language arts, you can choose any of the followingcoupled-course combos:
Literary Studies 10 + Composition 10
(Regular or Mini)
Literary Studies 10 +
Creative Writing 10
Literary Studies 10 +
Spoken Language 10
Exploring available courses (3)For math 10, you have to choosebetween two courses:
Workplace Mathematics 10 Foundations of Mathematics and Pre-Calculus 10
Exploring available courses (4)For PHE 10, there are two options for you to consider:
PHE 10 Regular PE 10 YOE (Outdoor Education)
Exploring available courses (5)For grade 10, there is a graduation requirement
course called Career Life Education (CLE 10):
Exploring available courses (6)• For detailed course description, please consult the course
selection handbook very carefully.
• The calendar can be viewed online at the school’s website: https://www.vsb.bc.ca/schools/templeton/Guidance-and-Support/Course-Planning/Pages/default.aspx
Exploring available courses (7)
• I have prepareda sheet listing courses availableto grade 9 students
• Use this sheet as a guide to select required and elective courses
Exploring available courses (8)• Use Education
Planner BC to help you do some earlyresearch into the courses you wouldneed to take
• By going backwardsin your research, you can get a senseof courses youwould need
Web address: educationplannerbc.ca
Exploring available courses (9)
Modern Languages Science Math
Language Arts Social studies
In addition to courses you can take at Templeton, students can also choose to attend
summer school for completion courses or take an online course for additional credits.
This is especially true for students thinking of taking multiple courses in a particular
subject area in grades 11 and 12.
Filling course requests (1)
Page two of
your course
request form
looks like
this. What I’d
ask you to do is
the following:
Filling course requests (2)• For lines 1 to 5, enter the course titles for the
required courses you want to take
• For line 6, enter Career Life Education 10 (CLE 10)
• For lines 7 & 8, choose a) a language + elective or b) two elective courses (you can add a 9th course if it is an off-timetable course)
• For alt. choices 1 to 3, choose three other alternateelective courses – they will become your electivecourse(s) if the one(s) you are chooseing in lines 7 or 8 cannot be given to you.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• What about summerschool courses?
• What about online courses?
Work Time!We are almost done.
Now, it’s time for you to
browse the course
handbook, and begin
filling out your course
requests. Feel free to
ask me any questions
on a specific course(s).
What’s Next?• Discuss your course requests with your
parents/guardians at home
• Complete your course request form -make sure you have all the pre-requisitesfor courses you are signing up for!
• Have you and your parents/guardians signthe course request form
• Enter your course requests (NOT includingalternates) online through MyEd BC before February 8
• Return your course request form to me before February 8
• You are going to enter your course requests through MyEd BC
• Detailed instructions can be found on the handout provided
• The student portal will be open for course request entry from now until Feb 8, 2021
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Note: 1. There are multiple courses with
similar course titles – make sure you are
choosing the right ones. 2. Do NOT enter
alternate choices to MyEd
Completing Your Course Requests on MyEd BC
Forgetting Something?• Everything we’ve talked about today can be found on the
school’s site. Go to Guidance and Support → course planning and you can find everything there.
That’s it!
Yeah, that’s all… for now. Please don’t
hesitate to come in to see me if you have any
questions regarding course planning…