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The guidance and career education program will help students relate what they learn in school to the community, understand and value education, recognize the learning opportunities available to them, make choices from among those opportunities, and adapt to changing circumstances. It will help them make transitions throughout their lives - from family to school, from school to school, from school to work, and from school to lifelong learning. Through learning activities that emphasize managing time, completing tasks, setting goals, resolving conflicts, volunteering, collaborating, and cooperating, students will learn self-discipline, personal and social responsibility, and respect for others from diverse cultures.
As already noted, teaching and learning in the guidance and career education program involves a variety of instructional settings and roles, as well as the involvement of community partners. Students acquire knowledge and skills not only through the provincial curriculum, but also through the teacher-adviser program, their development of annual education plans, events such as job-shadow days, work experience opportunities, and cooperative education. Students learn from the active involvement of and direction from teachers, teacher-advisers, and guidance counselors. The program's structured teaching and learning approach systematically builds each year on the previous year's learning.