Wellness 10 A Curriculum Guide for the Secondary Level

Career Development

Career development competencies begin at the Elementary Level in health education, physical education, and other areas of study. The development of the C.E.L.s contributes to the development of many of these competencies. As students explore wellness, they have opportunities to develop a number of important competencies in order to discover and create the life students want to live and begin to consider the work they want to do. The Blueprint for Life/Work Designs has identified a common framework of competencies that students need to develop to be successful and self-reliant in the rapidly changing knowledge-age of the 21st century. This framework includes the gradual development of several competencies including:

Personal Management

developing abilities to maintain a positive self-image
developing abilities for building positive relationships in one’s life and work
learning to respond to change and growth.

Learning and Work Exploration

linking lifelong learning to one’s career building process
locating, interpreting, evaluating, and using life/work information.

Life/Work Building

developing abilities to seek, obtain/create, and maintain work
engaging in life/work decision making
linking lifestyles and life stages to life/work building
understanding and learning to overcome stereotypes in life/work building
recognizing and taking charge of one’s life/work building process.

For more information, refer to Blueprint for Life/Work Designs (www.blueprint4life.ca), 2000.