Saskatchewan Learning is committed to the infusion of career development competencies across curricula as part of a broad career development strategy for
In 2001, the Department adopted the Blueprint for Life/Work Designs as the scope and sequence for the integration of career development competencies into Core Curriculum. The Blueprint outlines the skills, knowledge and attitudes that are essential tools for effectively managing life/work development. This framework, which describes career development competencies from early childhood through adulthood, was developed through the collaboration of representatives of Canadian provinces and territories and is published by the National Life/Work Centre, a not-for-profit organization that supports career development. The cornerstone of the Blueprint is the matrix of eleven competencies grouped into three sections: personal management, learning and work exploration, and life/work building.
The career development framework includes the continuous development of the following competencies:
A. Personal Management
1. Building and maintaining a positive self-image
2. Interacting positively and effectively with others
3. Changing and growing throughout one’s life
B. Learning and Work Exploration
4. Participating in lifelong learning supportive of life/work goals
5. Locating and effectively using life/work information
6. Understanding the relationship between work and society/economy
C. Life/Work Building
7. Securing, creating, and maintaining work
8. Making life/work enhancing decisions
9. Maintaining balanced life and work goals
10. Understanding the changing nature of life/work roles
11. Understanding, engaging in, and managing one’s own life/work building processes.
Each of the eleven competencies has been further categorized into four developmental levels roughly corresponding to Elementary Level, Middle Level, Secondary Level, and Adult Level. Within each level of a competency are a number of general learning objectives, referred to in the Blueprint as indicators. These objectives are grouped within learning stages of acquisition, application, personalization, and actualization. A comprehensive description of the eleven career development competencies may be found at www.blueprint4life.ca.
This curriculum guide reflects the career development competencies within the curriculum objectives, instructional activities, and suggested student assessment processes. Competencies are noted with the abbreviation CD.