Health and Career Education 8 (HACE)
The aim of Health and Career Education 8 is to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will assist them in making informed decisions related to their health, their education, and their future careers. Health and Career Education 8 builds on HACE K to 7, and provides a foundation of learning for Planning 10, the required Graduation Program course. Health and Career Education from Kindergarten to grade 10 represents a continuum of learning, developing and building on key concepts and abilities from year to year that enable students to become informed decision makers and active participants in planning and taking responsibility for their own lives. The Health and Career Education 8 curriculum provides opportunities for students to:
The HACE 8 curriculum recognizes the interrelated areas of intellectual development, human and social development, and career development in creating healthy and active educated citizens. This curriculum also recognizes the need for students to understand the personal relevance of their studies and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that can help them manage their lives more purposefully and effectively.
Goals for Health and Career Education 8
Course Breakdown
Unit One - Education and Careers
Unit Two – Health
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- practise decision-making and problem-solving strategies
- identify and explore personal, education, and careers goals
- think critically about a variety of health topics and decisions
- examine skills that help to develop healthy relationships
- develop safe attitudes and practices in a variety of settings
- identify sources of information and support for a variety of health and career topics
The HACE 8 curriculum recognizes the interrelated areas of intellectual development, human and social development, and career development in creating healthy and active educated citizens. This curriculum also recognizes the need for students to understand the personal relevance of their studies and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that can help them manage their lives more purposefully and effectively.
Goals for Health and Career Education 8
- Students will become informed decision makers, able to understand the effects of their choices on themselves and others.
- Students will be able to access information and support relevant to health and career topics.
- Students will develop an understanding of their growing personal responsibility for attaining and maintaining their overall health and well-being, and for identifying and exploring their education and career goals.
- Students will develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable them to plan for their successful transition into the graduation years.
Course Breakdown
Unit One - Education and Careers
- Exploring a range of careers
- Support networks for education and career planning
- Transferable skills
- Planning for transition to the Graduation Program years (e.g. Grade 10 requirements)
Unit Two – Health
- Healthy Living – characteristics affecting healthy lifestyles (e.g., physical activity, nutrition, emotional health issues, sexual decision making, prevention of spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs)
- Healthy Relationships – skills needed to build healthy relationships (e.g. communication, problem solving), to deal with unhealthy relationships, and to contribute to safe and caring school environment
- Safety and Intervention Prevention – safety in variety of situations (including on the road, in the community, on the Internet, and in job-related situations)
- Substance Misuse Prevention – influences on and prevention of problematic substance use
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