Every year, the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) hosts Financial Literacy Month throughout November. Resources for teachers and students are available on the FCAC website, as well as through the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education (CFEE) which organizes “Talk With Our Kids About Money” and the “Money Fair.” The FCAC helps coordinate the efforts of, […]
Gisella Scalia available, eager, and ready to help
Gisella Scalia joined the Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur (MEES) resource team which was assembled in the fall of 2017 to assist with the implementation of the Academic and Career Guidance Content (ACGCs) across Québec. Her title is almost as long as her career in education: Regional Resource Person for the Academic and Career Guidance […]
ACGC: Elementary Cycle Three Implementation
In August 2017 the Deputy Minister, Mme Sylvie Barcelo, announced the compulsory implementation of the Academic and Career Guidance Content (ACGC) in the 2017-2018 school year for Elementary Cycle Three. As well, the content items for Elementary Cycle Three have been revised, based on the experiences of the piloting schools. From the 11 that were […]
TWOKAM: Talk with Our Kids about Money, April 18, 2018.
It’s never too late to start.” Talk with Our Kids About Money Day is coming up soon – April 18, 2018. Did you register your Secondary Level 1 class?
Défi OSEntreprendre Application Deadline March 14
The completed electronic registration for this year’s Québec Entrepreneurship Challenge, “Défi OSEntreprendre,” must be officially submitted no later than 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 14, 2017. The Défi OSEntreprendre 2017 site is up and running with a new fresh look. All the necessary resources are located under the first link in the menu: “Registration Student […]
EMSB Urban Beekeeping: Schools Collect their Honey!
September held a unique surprise for students returning to seven schools of the English Montreal School Board (EMSB). Travis Hall, Career Development Consultant at EMSB, reports that after installation and a successful series of workshops last year, the beehives set up in the spring were now stacked high with boxes filled with frames of honey.
Perseverance Pays off for GrEau at Mecatina School
Congratulations to the Mecatina School students, teachers, and the village of La Tabatière in the Littoral School Board for persevering with their goal to win the OSEntreprendre contest. The student project, GrEau, which is a hydroponic green vegetable growing operation, was a 2016 grand prize winner in OSEntreprendre.
Financial Literacy Boosts “Out of FOCUS”
The inauguration of the FOCUS students’ T-shirt printing project at Lindsay Place High School (LPHS) received a boost from an in-house brainstorming session with Brian Smith of the Canadian Federation for Economic Education (CFEE) which runs the financial literacy program: “Talk With Our Kids About Money.”
What's New in ACGC
The ACGCs have been fully implemented across the province at all levels since 2021-22.
Learning Situations (LS) are now available for almost all of the ACGCs. Most recently, Entering the workforce...a new reality, Secondary Cycle Two (Personal perceptions and the reality of the world of work) was posted on the LEARN site under Teaching and Learning Tools.
For those unfamiliar with the ACGC, a video in English is now available on the MEQ YouTube page, entitled, Introduction to Academic and Career Guidance Content (ACGC).
Take advantage of the many resources in English now available on the Ministry’s Vibe platform and on the LEARN site (ACGC Elementary, Secondary Cycle One, Secondary Cycle Two).
The “Continuum with Links" is a new tool to help you quickly access all content items and their corresponding expected student learning outcomes, as well as LSs, summary sheets and record-keeping tools.
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The GOAL Post Team and
the GOAL Network
March 2023
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