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Part A: Choices for Nine Optional Attendance and Timelines Part B: Messages for Success

The Transition from Grade 8 to 9 Presentation Overview. Part A: Choices for Nine Optional Attendance and Timelines Part B: Messages for Success Part C: Ontario Secondary School Program. Check out Education Planning at. www.tdsb.on.ca/goingtohighschool. Accessing myBlueprint.

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Part A: Choices for Nine Optional Attendance and Timelines Part B: Messages for Success

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  1. The Transition from Grade 8 to 9 Presentation Overview Part A: Choices for Nine Optional Attendance and Timelines Part B: Messages for Success Part C: Ontario Secondary School Program

  2. Check out Education Planning at www.tdsb.on.ca/goingtohighschool

  3. Accessing myBlueprint www.myBlueprint.ca/tdsb

  4. Part A Optional Attendance and Timelines

  5. Choices: Planning Guides Choices for Nine(October) Choices: Secondary Schools Course Selection & Planning Guide (January with course selection sheets)

  6. Find Your School www.tdsb.on.ca Click on “Find your School”

  7. Information Nights at TDSB High Schools High School Information Evenings (dates & times) are listed in the Choices for Nine brochure and posted on the TDSB website: www.tdsb.on.ca/GoingtoHighSchool

  8. Where and What are the Specialized Programs? • Check the Choices for Ninelegend • www.tdsb.on.ca/HighSchool/Guidance/Choices

  9. Information Nights at Specialized Schools • Specialized programs and designed for students with a strong passion and skill in a specific area • To investigate specialized schools or programs, contact the specific school for admission requirements • Specialized requirements may include auditions, tests, interviews, etc. • Check deadline dates for applications

  10. Optional Attendance • Students are encouraged to attend the secondary school that serves their residential address – “home-school” • Use an Optional Attendance Application Form when applying to a school other than your home-school (forms available at Grade 8 school) • Students may apply to : - two regular schools - two specialized programs • Some schools are CLOSED to Optional Attendance www.tdsb.on.ca/FindyourSchool/OptionalAttendance

  11. Specific Dates • February • January 31, 2014 - Optional Attendance applications due to secondary schools – delivered by student/parent/guardian • February 14, 2014 - Secondary schools will inform Optional Attendance applicants • Mid to late February 2014 - Course Selection sheets completed and returned to current school counsellor • February 28, 2014 - All course selection sheets due to secondary schools – delivered by current school counsellor • Only ONE course selection sheet per student • is submitted for ONE secondary school

  12. Part B Messages for Success

  13. Key Message for Success “16 by 16” 16 credits by 16 years of age

  14. The Importance of Credit Accumulation

  15. Where do students go aftersecondary school?

  16. Part C Ontario Secondary School

  17. Credit System • Once a course is passed, a credit is granted (50% or higher) • Students are expected to take 8 courses a year • To graduate from high school a student must earn 30 credits

  18. Ontario Secondary SchoolDiploma (OSSD) • Total of 30 course credits • - 18 compulsory courses - 12 elective courses (options) • 40 hrs. Community Involvement • - Begins in July after Grade 8 • Ontario Literacy Requirement • - Written Test in Grade 10 (OSSLT) ~ Ontario Schools, Kindergarten to Grade 12: Policy & Program Requirements, 2011

  19. Compulsory Credits Students must earn the following 15 compulsory credits: • 4 English- one credit per grade • 1 Frenchas a Second Language • 3 Mathematics- at least one in grade 11 or 12 • 2 Science • 1 Canadian History • 1 Canadian Geography • 1 Arts (Visual Arts, Music, Integrated Arts, Media, Drama or Dance) • 1 Health and Physical Education • 0.5 Civics • 0.5 Career Studies

  20. Compulsory Credits Continued Plus ONE CREDIT from each of the following 3 Groups: Group 1 • An additional English credit or French as a second language*, or third language, or Social Science and Humanities credit, or Canadian and World Studies credit, or Guidance and Career Education credit, or Cooperative Education credit* *A maximum of 2 credits in Cooperative Education and 2 credits in French can count as compulsory credits.

  21. Compulsory Credits Continued Group 2 • One credit in Health and Physical Education, or the Arts, or Business Studies, or French as a second language or Cooperative Education * Group 3 • One credit in Gr. 11 or 12 Science, or a credit in Technological Education, or Computer Studies, or French as a second language or Cooperative Education * * A maximum of 2 credits in Cooperative Education and 2 credits in French can count as compulsory credits.

  22. Course Types in Grade 9 and 10: • Open • Applied• Academic• Locally Developed Compulsory Credit (LDCC) Making your choices: choose success!

  23. What is an Open Course? • Learning expectations are the same for all students • Designed to prepare students for further study and • to enrich general education in a subject • Can be counted as compulsory or elective credits • Grade 9 Open Courses at Zion Include: • Physical Education • Arts (Music, Visual Arts, Drama, Integrated Arts) • Business • Exploring Technologies • Exploring Family Studies • Introductory French

  24. Academic & Applied Courses Academic Courses Cover the core content and have an emphasis on the theoretical aspects of the content Applied Courses Cover the core content and have an emphasis on practical applications

  25. Work Habits Sample

  26. Changing Course Type After Grade 9: Gr. 10 Academic Gr. 9 Academic Gr. 10 Applied Gr. 9 Applied Gr. 10 LDCC Gr. 9 LDCC (except Mathematics)

  27. Changing Course Type After Grade 9: Gr. 10 Academic Gr. 9 Academic T Gr. 10 Applied Gr. 9 Applied Gr. 10 LDCC Gr. 9 LDCC Gr. 9 Applied to Gr. 10 Academic Mathematics (Transfer Course worth 0.5 credit)

  28. Making Your Choices Grades 9 and 10 Applied Academic Locally Developed Open Grades 11 and 12 College University Workplace Mixed

  29. Zion’s Grade 9 Course Selection Sheets • Distributed in class the week of February 3rd with teacher recommendations • Due in homeroom by February 20th Current Grade 8 Zion students will complete course selection on-line using www.myBlueprint.ca/tdsb

  30. Accessing myBlueprint www.myBlueprint.ca/tdsb

  31. Search for Course Descriptions www.tdsb.on.ca/choices

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