Course Information Sheet

Learning Strategies/Skills for Success:

GLS 1O/GLE 1O/GLE 2O

This course focuses on learning strategies to help students become better, more independent learners. Students will learn how to develop and apply literacy and numeracy skills, personal-management skills, and the interpersonal and teamwork skills to improve their learning and achievement in school, the workplace, and the community. The course helps students build confidence and motivation to pursue opportunities for success in secondary school and beyond..

GLS 1O/GLE 1O/ GLE 2O focuses on these key expectations from the Ministry of Education's curriculum:

•	identify and use an increasing variety of literacy skills and strategies to improve reading, writing, and oral communication in everyday contexts;

•	identify and use a variety of numeracy skills and strategies to improve their practical application of mathematics in everyday contexts;

•	demonstrate an understanding of learning skills and strategies required for success in school

•	apply knowledge of their personal skills and learning strengths to develop strategies for success in secondary school;

•	identify and describe personal-management skills required for success, and explain their use to help maximize learning;

•	demonstrate the use of personal-management skills and strategies to enhance learning;

•	identify and describe the knowledge and skills necessary for successful interpersonal relations and teamwork;

•	assess their interpersonal and teamwork skills and strategies, and explain how those skills requiring further development affect their learning;

•	demonstrate the ability to apply appropriate interpersonal and teamwork skills in a variety of learning environments;

•	apply their knowledge of school, work, and community involvement opportunities to develop a personal learning plan;

•	demonstrate an understanding of school and community resources and how these can be utilized to support their learning needs;

•	develop a portfolio of documents pertaining to self-assessment, research, and career exploration that are necessary for planning a pathway for secondary school success.

Your final mark will be calculated based on the Ministry of Education's Achievement Chart for the course as follows: Knowledge/Understanding: 25%; Thinking: 25%; Communication: 25%; Application: 25%

70% of the final mark will be based on work completed throughout the course, including group and individual assignments. 30% of the final mark will be based on the final evaluation.

Note: GLE1O and GLE2O courses are unique in that they are based on a single ministry course, GLS 1O. The key expectations are covered in two years/courses rather than one, allowing students on IEP's more flexibility in program planning. Emphasis is determined by the needs of students as identified on the IEP

2015 - 2016 ~~~ 2015 - 2016 ~~~ 2015 - 2016 ~~~ 2015 - 2016 ~~~ 2015 - 2016 ~~~ 2015 - 2016

In order to meet these expectations the course will be divided into the following units of study:

Unit 1 - Literacy Skills and Strategies, to improve reading, writing, and oral communication in everyday contexts.

Unit 2 - Numeracy Skills and Strategies, to improve their practical application of mathematics in everyday contexts.

Unit 3 - Learning Skills and Strategies, required for success in school and everyday life

Unit 4 - Character Education, required for success in school and everyday life.

The course culminating activity in GLS 1O is a Personal Learning Profile in which the student reflects on their progress and achievements throughout the semester. Though a series of differentiated tasks, their profile will outline how far they have come since the beginning of the course, and what they need to do to keep growing as a learner.

The final mark will be calculated based on the Ministry of Education's Achievement Chart for the course as follows:

ACHIEVEMENT CHART CATEGORY	WEIGHT	DESCRIPTION OF ACHIEVEMENT CHART CATEGORY
Knowledge and Understanding	25%	Subject-specific content acquired in each course (knowledge),

and the comprehension of its meaning and significance (understanding).
Thinking	25%	The use of critical and creative thinking skills and/or processes, as follows:

– planning skills (e.g., focusing research, identifying a problem, locating and gathering information, organizing an inquiry)

– processing skills (e.g., analysing, reflecting, integrating, synthesizing, evaluating, forming conclusions)

– critical/creative thinking processes (e.g., reading process, inquiry, decision making, research, problem solving)
Application/Making Connections	25%	The use of knowledge and skills to make connections within and between various contexts.
Communication	25%	The conveying of meaning through various oral, visual, and written forms

(e.g., interviews, presentations, portfolios, graphic organizers, posters, letters, résumés, personal profiles, charts, reports, summaries).

Students will be assigned a final mark out of 100 that is calculated mathematically with 70% being based on term work and 30% based on final evaluation activities. These marks will be based on the following:

Term Work (70%)	Tests /quizzes	(30%)

Assignments	(40%)

Final Evaluations (30%)	Personal Learning Profile	(15%)

Final Exam	(15% )

A final mark of 50% or better must be earned for a credit to be granted.

Well developed learning skills such as Responsibility, Organization, Independent Work Collaboration, Initiative, and Self Regulation play a vital role in a student's success and will be consistently monitored by teachers and reported on in the Learning Skills section of the report card. Each student's future success will be contingent on his/her ability to "learn how to learn" and master of these learning skills.

It is important to note that assessment and evaluation is a continuous and ongoing process. Students are therefore encouraged to start giving their best effort to their work right away, and to keep working diligently throughout the entire semester.

Rev.: 2016 SHDHS