Your Career Interests - Jobs in Demand or Surplus? Lesson Plan

Concept:

Aligning labour market opportunities to career interests - will there be a job for you when you complete your education or training?

Student learning associated with this concept can support achievement of provincial learning outcomes:

NB 2, 3, 5, 6
NL 1, 3, 4, 11
NS 2, 4, 5, 7, 10
PEI 2, 3

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Rationale:

As students investigate careers and plan for their entry into the labour market, it is important they explore job prospects to ensure opportunities that align with their interests and education/training may exist when they graduate. It is also important that students recognize that as economies change the labour market will also change. Being prepared for an evolving world of work requires resilience and will prepare them in being more marketable and able to manage a transition to new opportunities. Understanding these shifts in labour market demands will help students make informed decisions about their future.

This lesson also supports (reinforces) the lesson on matching skills with job opportunities.

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This lesson presents an opportunity for teachers to collaborate in supporting student learning about the role of self-assessments in career planning. In addition to Career Education courses, teachers can consider how students are able to meet cross curricular learning outcomes in other courses such as English/French Language Arts, Multimedia, Social Studies, Fine Arts etc. A cross curricular focus also supports a unified approach in addressing the “why” of what students are learning. Students can develop an awareness of how and why what they are learning connects to them, their community and their future.