UNLEASH

GRADE TWELVE C O U R S E S
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Guidance & Career
Education
Advanced Learning Strategies: Skills
for Success After Secondary School,
Grade 12, Open (GLE4O)
This course improves students’ learning and
personal management skills, preparing them to
make successful transitions to work, training,
and/or postsecondary education destinations.
Students will assess their learning abilities
and use literacy, numeracy, and research
skills and personal management techniques
to maximize their learning. Students will
investigate trends and resources to support
their postsecondary employment, training,
and/or education choices and develop a plan
to help them meet their learning and career
goals. Prerequisite: For GLS4O – None.
GLE4O – Recommendation of Principal.
Navigating the Workplace,
Grade 12, Open (GLN4O)
This course provides students with
opportunities to develop the workplace skills
and work habits required for success in all
types of workplaces. Students will explore
occupations and careers of interest through
participation in real workplace experiences.
They will make plans for continued learning
and work, work with others to design learning
experiences, and investigate the resources
and support required to make a smooth
transition to their postsecondary destination.
Prerequisite: None.
Health & Physical
Education
Personal Fitness Activities,
Grade 12 Open (PAF4O)
This course focuses on the enhancement of
safe and effective complex fitness activities.
The student will determine the emphasis of
his/her program. That emphasis may be of
a personal fitness nature or it may be sport
specific. Components of the course will include
the promotion of all aspects of skill related
fitness (speed, reaction time, agility, balance,
coordination, power). Evaluation will include
written assignments on health related topics,
personal fitness assessments, a personal
journal and active involvement. Prerequisite:
PAF3O is recommended.
Focused Physical Education,
Grade 12 Open (PAL4O)
This course focuses on the development
of a healthy lifestyle and participation in
basketball or hockey that have the potential
to engage students’ interest throughout their
lives. Students will be encouraged to develop
personal competence in a variety of movement
skills and will be given opportunities to practice
goal-setting, decision-making, social, and
interpersonal skills. Students will also study
the components of healthy relationships,
reproductive health, mental health, and
personal safety. Students will demonstrate an
understanding of many aspects of basketball or
hockey including, skills, techniques, strategies,
training, physical and mental preparation as
well as performance critique and reflection.
Prerequisite: None.
Recreation and Fitness Leadership,
Grade 12, College Preparation
(PLF4M)
This course enables students to explore
the benefits of lifelong participation in active
recreation and healthy leisure and to develop
the leadership and coordinating skills needed
to plan, organize, and safely implement
recreational events and other activities related
to healthy, active living. Students will also learn
how to promote the benefits of healthy, active
living to others through mentoring and assisting
them in making informed decisions that enhance
their well-being. The course will prepare
students for university programs in physical
education and health and kinesiology and for
college and university programs in recreation
and leisure management, fitness and health
promotion, and fitness leadership. Prerequisite:
Any health and physical education course
Healthy Active Living Education,
Grade 12, Open (PPL4O)
This course focuses on the development of a
personalized approach to healthy active living
through participation in a variety of sports and
recreational activities that have the potential to
engage students’ interest throughout their lives.
Students will develop and implement personal
physical fitness plans. In addition, they will
be given opportunities to refine their decision
making, conflict-resolution, and interpersonal
skills, with a view to enhancing their mental
health and their relationships with others.
Prerequisite: None