Life Skills, Careers, and Trade
At York Academy, learning is a lifelong endeavour, exploring career possibilities, exploring countless undiscovered opportunities, and planning knowledge skills transferability to confront challenges and adapt to change with versatility. York Academy integrated life skills, careers and trade curriculum starts at our primary level and is designed for students:
- To identify and apply necessary skills through personal growth and well-being
- To be exposed to numerous life skills, careers and trade experiences and options
- To take personal responsibility for their intellectual, emotional, physical, financial, social well-being, life and career path
- To commit to healthy attitudes and actions
- To demonstrate self-reliance and self-awareness as honor citizens who make responsible choices and ethical decisions in life and regarding their career directions
- To strive for personal excellence
- To earn achievements and the respect of others through personal growth and well-being
- To identifying and understanding their personal interests, strengths and needs
- To reflect personal interests, strengths and needs
- To facilitate community and corporate engagement and involvement experiences to give learners greater perspective and knowledge of a wide range of unknown skills and careers
- To utilize diverse approaches to evaluate learner competency, including qualitative measures
- To develop the values of work ethic, self-reliance and responsibility
- To use self-reflection to inform lifelong learning, career and wellness choices
- To use community and personal resources to support personal growth and well-being
- To assess skills, knowledge, attitudes and values for possible growth and well-being
- To integrate career development and personal well-being into lifelong learning
York Academy & College Integrated Life Skills, Careers and Trade curriculum offers
- Culinary & Hospitality
- Driver Education
- Makeup & Hair Styling
- Agronomy – Horticulture
- Social Services & Care Provider
- Policing and Law Enforcement
- Law
- Life Saving
- Teaching
- Coaching
- Aviation / Navigation
- Design
- Multimedia – Radio – TV – Broadcasting
- Arts & Music
- Leadership – Diplomacy – Governance