The Facilitator's Edge is a workshop series based on the life/work messages of The Edge magazine. The workshops are deigned to help educators, youth workers, and their career practitioners facilitate conscious career building. This manual consists of five group sessions, each focusing on a different career-building theme. "Megatrends and…

Designed for students who have experienced difficulty in learning, this combined curriculum guide and program of studies describes the Integrated Occupational Program (IOP) which is designed to develop the skills necessary for everyday living at home, at school, in the workplace, and in the community. The IOP Language Arts Grades 8 and 9 program…

Literacy instruction materials developed by literacy workers are presented. Most of the materials are intended for a variety of student proficiency levels; one is intended for teachers. The first four sets, all illustrated with photographs, include a story about playing the lottery, the description of a shopping trip for jeans and shoes, a…

The guide outlines modifications, adaptations, and social interaction approaches for school staff to use with physically handicapped and regular students in integrated classrooms in the province of Alberta, Canada. Guidelines are provided for the following main categories and subsets (in parentheses): lifting and transferring techniques (methods…

This document presents a teacher resource manual to use with the Health and Personal Life Skills Curriculum Guide for junior high school students developed by the Alberta Department of Education in 1986. It provides practical suggestions to teachers, with emphasis on evaluation in the affective domain, teaching the elective portion of the…

Project Real World, a self-contained, activity-based Canadian consumer science program, provides students with systematic instruction in economic living skills. It gives students in grades 10-12 an orientation to the economic realities and opportunities in society. The program helps students understand the marketplace; manage resources; apply…

These guidelines provide basic literacy materials and materials directed toward the teaching of pre-employment skills and life skills, computational skills, and native cultural awareness for native adult students. The material is applicable in both urban and rural (on-reserve) situations and directed toward students between a non-literate and…

This curriculum guide was developed in British Columbia for four purposes: (1) to define a contemporary perspective on employment preparation education; (2) to present an array of learning topics, with sample tasks and resources for instruction; (3) to present a flexible structure for course design; and (4) to provide administrators, coordinators,…

Project Real World, a self-contained, activity-based Canadian consumer science program, provides students with systematic instruction in economic living skills. It gives students in grades 10-12 an orientation to the economic realities and opportunities in society. The program helps students function effectively within the rapidly changing…

Project Real World, a self-contained, activity-based Canadian consumer science program, provides students with systematic instruction in economic living skills. It gives students in grades 10-12 an orientation to the economic realities and opportunities in society. The program helps students function effectively within the rapidly changing…

Project Real World, a self-contained, activity-based Canadian consumer science program, provides students with systematic instruction in economic living skills. It gives students in grades 10-12 an orientation to the economic realities and opportunities in society. The program helps students function effectively within the rapidly changing…

Project Real World, a self-contained, activity-based Canadian consumer science program, provides students with systematic instruction in economic living skills. It gives students in grades 10-12 an orientation to the economic realities and opportunities in society. The program helps students understand the marketplace; manage resources; apply…

This curriculum guide was developed for the 110-hour, 1-credit course in independent living for high schools in Manitoba. The course includes components that emphasize the knowledge, skills, and behavior necessary for persons to make informed decisions, solve problems, and maximize their potential as individuals and as contributing members of…

This home economics curriculum contains 16 modules for teaching personal, family, and applied skills in high schools in Alberta. The modules may be used in courses on various levels. Each module consists of generalizations, objectives, suggested learning experiences related to resources, and a content checklist. Modules in the personal living…

The Integrated Occupation Mathematics 26 Program is an optional program designed to allow students in Alberta, Canada to meet the credit requirements of the Certificate of Achievement and facilitate transfer to the General High School Diploma Program. This Teacher Resource Manual is provided to assist classroom teachers to implement the…