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 * __Monday, January 7th to Friday, January 25th, 2013__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can reflect on our work experience through our final project in the class
 * We can share our work experience with our peers
 * We can edit and update our wikispaces
 * We can update our resumes to include our work experience employers

__**How we will learn it**__
 * __Monday, January 7th to Friday, January 25th__**: Well here we are! The final few classes before the end of the semester. While it may seem a bit anti-climatical, I hope that your final presentations will be a good closure to your experience and learning within this class.

Here are the things we are going to be working on for the last classes, of the semester:

__**Student Assessment of Work** Place:__ Mr. Skoropad has asked that each one of you complete the following assessment of your work place. Please make sure that you answer honestly, as this helps him with placing student next semester, and for the next year. Please print off a copy and hand it into me once you have completed it. Thanks so much! :)

__**Thank You Cards**__: Please use the following outline to complete your Thank You card for your employer:



__**Final Presenations**__: These final presentations will be presented Tuesday, January 22nd and Wednesday, January 23rd. As you can see from the handout below, you have many options in how you would like to present your reflection on your work experience, to your peers. If you come up with another way, please feel free to approach me and we can discuss it. Here is the handout and rubric:



__**Resumes**__: Now would be a great time to update your resume to include your work experience employer and also take a look at the skills you have aquired over the last few months.

__**Journal Entries**__: Please remember your journal entries (10 of them worth 10 marks each for a total of 100). Here is the handout again if you need to refer to it.

__**Wikispaces**__: Please make sure your wikispaces are all updated before the end of the semester.

Have a good one!


 * __Monday, December 17th to Friday, December 21st, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can finish up our work placements
 * We can hand in all Time Sheets to Mr. Young
 * We can hand in or set up a time for our final evaulations to come in from our work place


 * __Monday, December 17th to Wednesday, December 19th:__** For some of you, this will be your last few days of work! There are a few things we need to remember as we are nearing the end of your employment at your work placement:
 * CWEX 20 level students must have 60 hours clocked in and signed off from their employers before Mr. Young can input hours
 * CWEX 30 level students must have 75 hours clocked in and singed off from their employers before Mr. Young can input hours
 * If you do not turn in your time sheets, Mr. Young cannot help you.
 * All final evaluations from employers need to be turned in ASAP. If your employer cannot get that done, this week, you willl need to setup a time to go and collect it
 * School gifts will be given out after the Christmas break. You will be taking these to your employers then.


 * __Thursday, December 20th__**: We will have a class meeting today at the beginning of period 2. Those students who still need to go and make up their hours, please let me know. We will not be spending the whole two hours together as I know some of you need to get time sheets, final evaluations, and other stuff completed before Friday. You can also use this time to finish up any assignments or projects you have for other classes.

__**Friday, December 21st**__: No class today! However, if you need to get time sheets and evaluations into me, PLEASE DO SO TODAY!!!!!!

I hope you have an AWESOME and SAFE Christmas Break!!! We will see you in 2013!!


 * __Monday, December 10th to Friday, December 14th, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can journalize our work experience using our wikispaces
 * We can get our time sheets in to complete our hours
 * We can enjoy the last full week of our work experience with our employers

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, December 10th to Friday, December 14th**__: This is your FULL WEEK of work! As we discussed last week, some of you need to catch up on your hours. Monday, is your day to decide, with your employer, whether or not you need to come in to catch up on your hours or not.

Please remember to hand in all time sheets to me! Again, without them, I CANNOT input your hours into the computer program. It's as simple as that. Your responsibility to get your time sheets completed, correctly, and handing them in, is your job! :)

Hope you have a great week at work! Don't forget to text if you have any questions!




 * __Monday, December 3rd to Friday, December 5th, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can journalize our work experience using our wikispaces
 * We can continue with our job placements
 * We can get our time sheets in to record our hours

__** How we will learn it **__ __** Monday, December ** 3rd: __ Hope you all had a great weekend! Today, we are going to have a quick meeting and I will be letting you continue to work on your journal entries and get those handed in or posted to your wikispace.

Some things that we need to look at:
 * Judging your time. The 20 level students must have 60 hours put in to complete their hours. The 30 level students must have 75 hours to complete their time. The question is, where are you in your number of hours. I have inputted all of the time sheets that I have received. Without your time sheets, I cannot help you and cannot justify the hours that you have worked. Some of you may be very close to reaching your hours in the next few weeks. Some of you may need to look at that number and figure something out with your employer as you have been away because of weather or sickness. Mr. Skoropad and myself CANNOT help you until all the hours are put in. That being said what I will be doing is allowing you next MONDAY, DECEMBER 10TH as time for you to catch up on hours or gain more. We will not have class that day. Please make sure that your employer knows you will be available to work on that day. That is your job, not mine! :)
 * Gifts for employers. We will either be dealing with that the week before Winter Break or just after winter break. You will need to take these out to your employers and the gifts will be provided to you from the school. However, that being said, if you want to provide your own personal gift for your employer in addition to the school gift, that is totally acceptable, as well!

__**Tuesday, December 4th to Thursday, December 7th**__: Work Placements! All time sheets need to be brought in! PLEASE!

Have a great weekend!




 * __Monday, November 26th to Friday, November 30th, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can journalize our work experience using our wikispaces
 * We can continue with our job placements
 * We can get our time sheets in to record our hours
 * We can discuss taking initiative when it comes to the workplace

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, November**__ __**26th:**__ Hope you all had a great weekend! Today, I am going to give you time to work on your journal entries for your wikispace or to hand in. There are still a number of you that haven't posted or turned in your journal entries to me from last week (refer to last week's entries). Today, you will be given the time to work on another entry.

The one thing I am going to encourage you to do is make sure that you are taking as many pics, as you can, of your experience at work. You may need to talk to your empolyer about this. I know I have snapped a few pics while I have been out in around but you are there and hopefully someone you are working with would feel ok taking a few pictures of you. Please just make sure to check on privacy things; especially those working in daycares and schools.

Also, we are going to talk about taking initiative in the workplace. You have all been to your workplacements for over a month now and you are getting very comfortable in knowing the place, the job, and the people you are working with. Some of you, during your experience, will see something within the job that you are wanting to try. My hope is that you feel comfortable enough with your employer or who you are working with to step a bit out of your comfort zone and see if there is something you would like to experience or work on. For some of you in the schools, it may be teaching a lesson. If you are at a daycare, it may be putting together an activity for the kids. For those in other places, it may be seeing something that you wish you could try.

This week, I want you to create a goal for yourself to talk to your employer about something you would like to experience within your workplace. Before the end of class, I will be coming around to you to ask you what your goal is going to be. Next week, we will see how that goal is coming along.


 * Please remember I would like to have all MIDTERM EVAUATIONS and TIME SHEETS turned in ASAP!!! **


 * Thanks so much and I hope you have an awesome week at work!**


 * __Tuesday, November 27th to Friday, November 28th__: WORK TIME!**


 * Have a great weekend!**
 * __Monday, November 19th to Friday, November 23rd__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can begin to journalize our work experience using our wikispaces
 * We can continue with our job placements
 * We can get our time sheets in to record our hours

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, November** 19th:__ Today, we will be finishing watching the movie "The Persuit of Happiness" with Mrs. Biro's class. Once that is done I will be going through a few things with you.

1. PLEASE TURN IN YOUR TIME SHEETS!!! 2. Midterm Evaluations do by the end of the week. (I will be around to pick them up before Friday) 3. We will be starting to talk about the following assignment that you will be in charge of over the next couple of week's as you are working and your job placement.



__** WEEK 1 **__ Based on the movie, The Persuit of Happines, please respond to the following questions:

1. What does happiness mean to you? 2. Discuss a time when you had to put a lot of effort into something and whether or not it paid off in the end.

Also, please choose one entry to write about from the list in the handout "Jounal Entries" above.

I hoope you have a great next few days at work! It sounds like you ALL are doing really well! :)


 * __Tuesday, November 20th to Friday, November 23rd__**: Work Placemements! Please remember that I will be around to pick up your midterm evaluation! Please let your employer know I will be around before Friday, to pick them up! Thank you!


 * __Tuesday, November 13th to Thursday, November 15th, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can hand in our time sheets for verification of hours
 * We can continue on with our job placements

__**Monday, November 13th to Thrusday, November 15th**__: As you can see, this week is a VERY BUSY week around the school! It's a 3 day work week as there is no school on Friday, November 16th due to Student Lead Conferences taking place on Wednesday and Thursday evening. Because of the conferences taking place during those times, we will not be having school on Friday. That means you will NOT need to attend your workplace, on Friday. Please make sure that your employers know you will not be there on Friday. Also, there is an awards assembly on Thursday, during period 3. If you need to attend that awards assembly (which I suggest you do) you need to touch base with your employer.
 * __How we will learn it__**


 * Student Lead Conferences take place this Wednesday and Thursday in the evenings from 6:30 until 8:30 pm. Please tell your parents that if they would like to see me, to please come visit me in the classroom, Lab 226. **


 * Please make sure that all time sheets are handed into me sometime over the next few days so I can keep an accurate record of the hours you have worked at your placement. **

I know this is a busy week, but you do get ANOTHER long weekend! If you are confused about anything please make sure to send me a quick text.

Have a good one!
 * __Monday, November 5th to Thursday, November 8th, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can hand in our time sheets for verification of hours
 * We can view a movie that deals with the emotional side of being in the work force
 * We can continue on with our job placements

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, November 5th**__: ** As you know, I am away this week. Ms. Funk will be in, with you all, on Monday. Please make sure ALL time sheets are turned into Ms. Funk! She will be collecting them and putting them in my binder so that I can record your times when I get back, next week. You will be hanging out with Mrs. Biro's class today and watching the movie "The Persuit of Happiness". **


 * Also, there is a great chance I will NOT have my cell phone on while I am away. Please make sure to keep in contact with your employers, if you are going to be away due to illness. If you have ANY questions, Mrs. Biro has made herself available to you guys to come and see her, at the school, if you have any questions. Also, please feel free to get in contact with Mr. Skoropad if it is an emergency. **


 * Please make sure that you employers are aware that you do not have school on __Friday, November 9th__. With there being no school, you will not have work placement on that day. It is marked on their calendars that they receieved from Mr. Skoropad, but it is a good idea to remind them. **


 * Also, as we do not have school on __Monday, November 12th__, you will not be meeting with me, that week. You will just go out to your work placement when you return on Tuesday, November 13th. **


 * I THINK THAT IS EVERYTHING........I HOPE!!!! **


 * Have an AWESOME work week, and I will see you next week, when I come around to your job placements for my second visit! :) **


 * -Mr. Young **

__**Tuesday, November 6th to Thursday, November 8th**__: JOB PLACEMENTS!! Please make sure to keep an accuarate account of your hours!


 * __Monday, October 29th to Friday, November 2nd, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can hand in our time sheets for verification of hours
 * We can write in our journals about our experiences at our work placement
 * We can hear a presentation about job apprenticeship

__**How we will learn it**__


 * __Monday, October__** __29th:__ Hope you all had an awesome weekend! Today, I am hoping that most of you have brought your time sheets with you, from your placement. Again, I can only accept these sheets with your employers signature on it. Today, we will be going over your journal entry assignment that you will complete over the term of your work placement. We will go over the assignment together and you will have some time to work on it. We will also be having a guest speak join us to talk about a work apprenticeship program. This is your second week of work placement! I will be coming out to see the rest of you in the next two days.

Journal Entry Assignment:




 * Just so that you are aware, I will be gone next week (November 5-8). Ms. Funk will be in for me during this time. However, chances are Ms. Funk will not be coming out to the work placements, next week. If you are going ill, please make sure that you call the school and not text me as I will have my phone off for most of the time, while I am away. If you are having employer issues or questions please feel free to check in with Mrs. Biro or Mr. Skoropad. I will be back the following week. Also, remember next week is a 3 day work week as next Friday (November 9th) is a day off school because of staff prep day. You may want to remind your employer of this.**

__**Tuesday, October 30th to Friday, November** 2nd:__ WORK PLACEMENTS. Please remember to keep an accurate count of your hours and return time sheets next week. I will make sure Ms. Funk collects them and puts them in the binder.

Have a great weekend and great work placement next week!! :)




 * __Monday, October 22nd to Friday, October 26th, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can continue to develop our online portfolios
 * We can discuss questions and concerns that may arise with your work placement
 * We can contact our employer, over the phone, to set up and interview time (if that hasn't been done)
 * We can view a video that demonstrates attitudes and personalities in the work place

__**How we will learn it**__

__**Monday, October 22nd**__: I can't believe that it is already time for you to head off to your work placements! WOW! That really was a quick month and a half! Now it is time to look forward to the next number of weeks as you are actually out there DOING IT!! Congratulations on making it to this point!! Now the FUN begins!!

Today, I want to go over a few minor things with you and then we are going to be watching an episode of Undercover Boss and maybe have a special treat! :)

The one thing that I will need to be collecting from you, immediately and over the next few days, is the following:


 * ** GREEN FORMS MUST BE TURNED IN NOW, TUESDAY AT THE LATEST **! Mr. Skoropad says that if they are not in you will be pulled from your placement, until it is all signed, and the hours that you worked will NOT be counted towards your total hours as you are actually working without Worker's Compensation. GET THOSE FORMS IN!! Best thing is that you have first period in the morning, and the afternoons to turn them in!!
 * When you are out in the workplace, please remind your employer that you need to be handing in the **INTERVIEW CHECKLIST** and the **SAFETY CHECKLIST.** These are both on ** PINK SHEETS ** in the Employer's Folder (Mr. Skoropad has given these forms to your employers prior to you being there) . I will be collecting those as I come around to see each of you at your work placement!
 * **Time Sheets need to be completed everyday and will be turned into me EVERY MONDAY when I see you back at school for our two hours together. Your time sheets need to be kept in a safe place at your workplace. I cannot accept your time sheet without your employer's initials on it so please make sure that happens. Also, I cannot input your total hours without that sheet, so until I have it, I cannot put it into the program that calculates your hours. As you can see, this is really your responsibility! Here is what the Time Sheet looks like. If you are ever in need of one, feel free to download it:**



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 * This is a component to the next few weeks when we meet back together on Mondays. I will be getting your journalize your experience, at your workplace, by giving you a topic to write about that you post to your wikispaces. We won't worry about getting into it today, but we will look at it next week during Monday's class.
 * I will be starting my initial visits on Thursday, this week. I am hoping to have gotten to all of you by next Tuesday. Again, if you have a question or are sick, I am only a text away. Please make sure to text me because I would hate to come out to your workplace and you aren't there!

Good luck tomorrow! Please let me know how it goes! Feel free to stop by the classroom in the afternoon for a chat!! :)


 * __Tuesday, October 23rd to Friday, October 26th__: Work Placements.** Green forms in? Pink forms in?

Have a great weekend! Dare you to sing this everyday, after you're done work! :)

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 * __Monday, October 15th to Friday, October 19th,2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can use good interviewing skills as we go through a mock interview with the folks from YARA
 * We can contact our employer, over the phone, to set up an interview time
 * We can be active listeners and contributors in a presentation about work place safety

__**How we will learn it**__

__**Monday, October**__ **15th:** Good morning! Hope you all had a great weekend! Unfortunately, I did have a good weekend til this morning when I decided to get sick. So, instead of infecting all of you, I decided to stay home. There are a few things I need to mention to you that you need to be looking at and working on over the next two days. If I feel like this tomorrow, I will definitely not be coming in. Here's what I need you to be working on:

1. **Placements**: 95% of you know where you are going for your placements. Mr. Skoropad should be coming down in the first period to be giving you your contact information for your employer. He will explain to you what you need to do with it. This will involve contacting your employer over the phone, to set up an interview time for you prior to next week's placement. I have a handout for you (below) to help you out when you call your employer to set up your interview. Please download it, and go over it. You may use this time to call your employer. Those people that are in schools, you might want to email the teacher first to see when would be a good time to call as some of them don't take calls during class time. Just remember a teacher's email adress is lastname.firstname@prairiesouth.ca. If you do make contact with your employer, and setup an interview time, please add the date and time to the whiteboard, at the front of the room where you all wrote your names.



2. **Yara Interviews:** They are all taking place this week! Please make sure you have checked over your date and time. I have a list on the outside of my door to the lab.

Some things to remember:
 * All interviews take place in room 105 (next to the office).
 * Please make sure you are there about 5-10 minutes before your scheduled interview so you have time to prepare.
 * Make sure you bring 2 resumes with you
 * There will be a laptop in there for you to use to show your online portfolios. Use it as needed
 * It might be a good idea to take a look at those questions that we looked at before (check the handout section) that you looked at before having interviews with my dad. Chances are, Norma probably received the same copy.

3. **Green Forms:** Please remember that all green forms must be filled out prior to going on your work placement. No green form, no work!

4. **Online Portfolios**: Again, you want to have these updated and ready to go for your upcoming interviews. If you need any help or need to leave the room to take some pictures, please let my replacement teacher know. You have had alot of time to work on these so I hope that they are perfect!

Hope you all have a great day! I am going to find someone to sing me Soft Kitty! :)

__**Tuesday, October 16th**__: Today, we will be joining Mrs. Biro's class for a presentation in our lab. It will take the full two periods. Again, if any of you setup an interview with your employer, or you have your YARA interview, that trumps the presentation. You need to be a your interviews prior to being in the presentation.

__**Wednesday, October 17th to 19th**__: During these classes we will have employer interviews and Yara interviews going on. We will have some activities to be done, in the classroom, but our main focus is preparing and getting our interviews done.

Have a great weekend! One more day and you are in the work place!! EXCITING!!!

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 * __Tuesday, October 9th to Friday, October 12th, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can complete the online WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information Systems) and be certified
 * We can view and ask questions of a guest speaker who is an expert in the field of workplace safety
 * We can continue to work on our online portfolios when it comes to our accomplishments and certifications, by creating a few more pages that focuses on these areas

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Tuesday, October** **9th**:__ Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Today, we are going to be starting on our WHMIS training. I will be giving you each a copy of your username, password, the site to go to to begin your training. It really will be on you to complete the course and and become certified. The $10 per certification has already been paid for, by the school. We will use the two hours to get through as much of the training as possible (with some breaks in between, as needed).

Please click here to access the Online Training for WHMIS

Convert PDF to JPEG for your certificate click here


 * __Wednesday, October 10th__**: We will be joining Mrs. Biro's class for a presentation on safety in the workplace and labor standards. We will be meeting in the auditorium for the two periods, for the presentation.

__**Thursday, October 11th and Friday, October 12th**__: Today and tomorrow we will continue to finish up our WHMIS training, in case some people still need some time to finish it up. We will also be using the time add some our certificates, awards, medals, etc. to our pages on our online portfolios. We can create different pages for your accomplishments or we can add just one page called "Accomplishments and Certifications". Remember, for each picture of a medal, award, scanned document, we will need to have a short write up of what each if to certify that you did. It just needs to be a brief description, no mare than a paragraph.

Have a great weekend! Please remember that next week will be your final week in the classroom! The following week, your job placements begin!


 * Also, if we receive your placement from Mr. Skoropad on Friday, we will need to look over the following document for when you contact your employer for your interview. Please download the following handout. We will go over it as a class. Please feel free to make some changes to help you out, if needed: **




 * __Monday, October 1st to Friday, October 5th, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can further develop our interview skills through mock interviews
 * We can analyze our own interviews through self reflection
 * We can meet with a member from the community to practice our interview skills
 * We can give analyze typical interview questions that may be asked in an actual interview
 * We complete the online WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information Systems) and be certified

__**Monday, October 1st**__: Today, we will complete our tour of the school, looking for workplace hazards. Some of you mentioned you hadn't quite finished it, so I will give you the first 40 minutes to finish up what you didn't finish, last week. We will then come back and have a discussion about some of the things that you found and then your group will get your final report finished off and handed in.

Also, during the course of our time together you will have some reflection time to look at the interview questions that may be asked of you during your practice interview on **Wednesday**. Here is a copy of the questions if you need to look at them again:



The rest of today will give you the opportunity to analyze the questions again, and make some notes for yourself.

__**Tuesday, October 2nd**__: Today, we are gong to talking about your interviews that will be taken over the course of the tomorrow's two periods. Again, using the questions above, your interviewer will be picking and choosing the questions he wants to discuss based on where the interview is going. For the first hour, I will give you time to write down, think about, discuss with a partner your answers for these questions. The second hour will be spent with our peers doing one more practice interview in preparation for tomorrow.

Also, we will be discussing your WHMIS certification that you be working on, online over the next couple of periods. Even if you are not working with hazardous materials during your work placement it is yet, another thing, to add to your resume that you have in case a job like that does arise!

__**Wednesday, October 3rd**__: Today, Mr. Lew Young (yep, my dad) will be joining us to take each of you through a mock interview situation. Mr. Young (yes that would make me Mr. Young junior) has spent the last 30 years in the funeral industry and working on the public school board for the Prairie South School Division. Today, he is going to take each of you to have a one on one interview. Our hope is that it gives you a basic idea of how an interview works, the questions that are asked, and that you are aware of all of the tips and tricks we have talked about over the last few classes. Mr. Young will make some notes on what he observes with each of you and then come back at the end of class to tell all of us what how we did.

While Mr. Young is interviewing you, one on one, the rest of us will be working on our WHMIS online training.

__** Thursday, October 4th and Friday, October 5th **__ : Today, we will continue to work on our WHMIS training. My hope is that we are all certified by the end of Friday's class. Also, I would like to use some of today's and tomorrow's classes to allow you to bring some certificate, medals, trophies, etc. from home and have the opportunity to add those to your online portfolio. We can take pictures and use the scanner to help you out with this process. During these two classes we took a look at the show "Undercover Boss" to examine the type of workers that are successful and some that need a bit of a refresher in their attitude and work ethic. Remember, as you are out on the job, you are in control of how you approach your job. How you approach will be key in your success!

Have a great Long weekend and eat lots of turkey!



__**What are we learning?**__
 * __Monday, September 24th to Friday, September 28th, 2012:__**
 * We can examine the keys to a successful interview
 * We can practice practice and practice some more the keys to a successful interview
 * We can go through a mock interview
 * We can take on the role of being the interview instead of the future employee
 * We can identify, analyze, and report on safety in the workplace

__**How we will learn it**__

__**Monday, September** **24th**:__ Hope you all had a great weekend! This week is definitely going to be filled with TONS of experiences that focus on you and how we inch closer and closer to going out for your work placements. Mr. Skoropad is hard at work trying to find your work placements that will hopefully match with your interests.

First thing we need to address is that the following assignments MUST be completed this week, NO EXCEPTIONS!! Some of you are already caught up on everything and that is AWESOME!!

1. **Personal Wikispaces** (Online Portfolios) need to be completed! This is worth 20 marks to you for having everything setup! 2. **Vision Boards** need to be completed and posted on the classroom wall. You also need to have your Vision Board included on your Online Portfolio. This is worth 20 marks to you! 3. **Resumes** need to be completed! You need to have one copy handed into Mr. Young and another one will be posted to your wikispace under a Resume page that you will create. This is worth 30 marks to you for completion and the resume must be PERFECT! 4. **Cover Letters** for Mr. Skoropad must be completed and handed in with your Resume! Having your letter completed, and it being error free is worth 10 marks to you!


 * If something above does not make sense to you, you need to look at the last few weeks. EVERYTHING has been posted for you on a week by week basis. Please make sure you are completely caught up. **

As for today, we are going to be continuing on with what we started on Friday. You will be taking the resume of a fellow classmate and creating a short interview for them. Remember, you are researching questions that you can ask and pertain to THEIR resume. Remember the things we talked about on Friday! During the second hour we will break off around the wing (our classroom, Ms. Rowe's, Mrs. Polupski's, 225, down the hall) and you will be interviewed and be the interviewer. Each interview should last no more than 8 minutes (maximum and I will time). This is the two ways we will do it:

1. We will get half the class to take the person they need to interview with them for the first 8 minutes. 2. We will get the other half of the class to take their person they need for their interview for 8 minutes.

After the interviews are completed, we will come back and discuss what went well, and what things we will need to work on over the next little bit as you prepare for your mock interviews.


 * __Tuesday, September 25th__**:


 * First Hour**: We will be spending some time talking about things to watch for in your interview. We will be using the following handouts as guidelines in our discussion, plus we are going to give you the opportunity to go onto YouTube and hunt for some interview skills. You will have some time to add some videos to your wikispace and we will be sharing them in class through viewing and class discussion. We will continue with this tomorrow, during the first hour.




 * Second Hour**: During this hour, for the next few classes, we are going to be starting to look at Safety in the Workplace. We are going to be looking at many different aspects from physical safety, harassment, and chemical safety (WHMIS). During this hour we are going to be looking at, and discussing, a number of videos. I will warn you that some of these videos can be a bit disturbing but it does show you that even the littlest things that you think are ok one moment, can have lasting consequences.

__**Wednesday, September 26th**__: I am going to be away today as we are getting setup for our Cross Country meet in Wakamow. Today, what I would like you to complete, in the two hours, is the following:

1. **For some of you this will be catch up time! Look back to Monday's entry (4 things to complete) ! if there is ANYTHING you do not have done, you MUST get it done during this class!**

2. Create an "Interview Tips" page on your wikispace. From there I would like you to go to YouTube and take a look at some of the videos dealing with helpful interview tips. Please make sure you watch them as you will be sharing them in class tomorrow during the first hour.

3. Create an "Work Place Safety" page on your wikispace. From there I would like you to go to YouTube and search for some videos that deal with Work Place Safety. Please make sure that you watch them as you will sharing them in class tomorrow during the second hour.

I will see you tomorrow!

__**Thursday, September 27th and Friday, September** **28th**:__ Today and tomorrow we are going to be looking at workplace safety. Thursday was very much of a write off class as Mr. Young had to be called out of the room every two minutes (definitely apologize about that!). During Friday's class we will be going over the following handout on identifying safey in our building. We will look at the first handout and how to identify safety hazards and then we will be going out into the school to identify a few of our own.



If you are away, I encourage you download a copy and find a place that you can complete the assignment. At the end of the project, we will have a class discussion and you will turn your assignments in for completion.

Have a great weekend!




 * __Monday, September 17th to Friday, September 21st, 2012__**
 * __What are we learning?__**
 * We can examine and discuss the qualities of an effective resume
 * We can create our own personal resumes using all of the elements that make it effective
 * We can use our proofreading skills (self and partner) to look for errors in spelling, punctuation, and formatting
 * We can post our resumes to our online portfolios for future employers to view


 * __How we we will learn it__**


 * __Monday, September__** __17th:__ Hope you all had a great weekend! For the first hour of class we will be finishing up our Vision Boards. Once you have them completed, I would love to take a picture of them for you to post as a page on your online portfolio. You will need to create a page called "My Vision Board" and include the following things on the page:

1. The picture of your Vision Board 2. Explain what a vision board is (so someone visiting your site can understand) 3. Highlight some of the features of your Vision Board (can be about a paragraph or two in length).

During the second hour we will be taking a look at creating/updating your resumes using the following website:

Resume Wikispace. This is a very useful site to gain knowledge about what areas to include in a resume, how to set one up. We will spend most of the class going over the areas that we will be including and making some notes on the things we want to include in our own resumes. Starting tomorrow we will be looking at how to set one up for yourself, and focus more on Transferable Skills, as that is one area that a lot of us will need some help in putting onto our resumes.

Here is a resume sample you can use to help you with formatting.




 * __Tuesday, September 18th to Friday, September 21st__**: During these classes, We will look at a template for setting up your resumes. Your task will be to complete a full resume by the end of the week (including references). You will need to make sure to print of a few copies to take home and show your parents/guardian and your peers. My hope is that we can look at each other's resumes and help proofread for spelling, grammatical errors, and formatting. It is always good to have your "Core 3" people check over your work.

We will also be taking a look at creating a cover letter near the end of the week as well. However, for the next few classes, I want to see how far we get with getting our resumes completed.

Have a great weekend!

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__**What are we learning?**__
 * __Monday, September 10th to Friday, September 14th, 2012__**
 * We can discover more elements about ourselves and what makes us a desired employee
 * We can create a visual represenation (vision board) of our hopes, dreams, desires, skills, and goals
 * We can examine peresonal skills, interests, hobbies, and personalities as we create our own online portfolios (wikispaces) for our class

__**How we will learn it**__

__**Monday, September 10th:**__ Today, we will continue to work on our wikispaces and filling out our blue form for Mr. Skorpad! Please remember that he would like to have all blue forms handed in by Wednesday, September 12th! This is very important as he will be placing on a first come, first serve basis. MAKE SURE TO GET YOUR FORMS IN!!! :)


 * __Tuesday, September, 11th__**: Today, I will be giving you the first hour to finish up your wikispaces, and filling out your ** BLUE FORMS **!! Please, again, remember that ** BLUE FORMS ** are due tomorrow!! The second hour will be used to dive into our next project.

During the course of your life, you will and SHOULD have dreams, desires, and goals that you want to achieve in your life. You also have the things in your life that mean the most to you. The project we are about to embark has you stepping away from the computer for a little bit and using your hands to create a visual representation of what you hold the most within your life. Here is the project we are going to work on, please feel free to download and and use:



__**Wednesday, September 12th to Friday, September 14th**__: We will be using this time to create your Vision Boards, finish up your online portfolios, get your BLUE FORMS in (if you have forgotten, tsk tsk!!). Again we will be taking a picture of your vision board to put onto your wikispaces.


 * Also, on THURSDAY, my cousin will be coming to do headshots of you for your online portfolios. Again we are trying to impress. She will do one head shot and then two posed pictures. This is just a notice in case you want to dress up for them. Again, you don't have to be in a suit, but it would be nice to look presentable! **

Have a great weekend because, someday, YOU WORK FOR IT! :)

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__**Tuesday, September 4th to Friday, September 7th, 2012**__ __**What are we learning?**__ > (digitial portfolio)
 * We can go over out course outline and discuss what we will be discovering in CWEX
 * We can read over the responsibilities of the students that are taking CWEX
 * We can examine many different forms of work as we examine our potential work placements
 * We can fill out our Student Application Forms with 100% efficiency for our potential work placements
 * We can can examine personal skills, interests, hobbies, and personalities as we create our own wikispaces for the class


 * __How we will learn it__**


 * __Tuesday, September 4th__:** Welcome to Career and Work Experience (CWEX) 2012!! I hope you had an awesome summer and are looking forward to tackling this class, this semester! I am really looking forward to working with all of you as you are taking one of the most PRACTICAL classes in the school! Let's face it, at the end of all this high school stuff, university, SIAST, and so on, all of us are going to be working at some point! Some of you have already experienced a taste of this and that is AWESOME! My bet is you are taking this class to not only get two credits, but to either try to enter a field that you have interest in or get another current reference to throw onto your resume! Whatever your reason is to be here, I am glad you are here!

Today, during the first hour, we are going to be going over the course outline, a brochure that describes the purpose for CWEX (and I hope answers some questions for you). We will also be taking a look at one of the forms you are going to have to fill out IMMEDIATELY (I believe starting tomorrow or Thursday depending on what Mr. Skorpad wants) that will be assisting him in your work placement. Not going to lie, the sooner you get that back the quicker it will be for him to place you! So if you want to be considered first, you will want to GET IT IN! :)

During the second hour, we will finish up anything we didn't get done in the first hour and then we are going to be looking at YOU! I don't know many of you and I am going to have you for 2 hours over the next few weeks! I guess we should start to get to know each other.

I have a page that I would like you to fill out and we will take a look at, as a class, after you complete it!

Tomorrow, we are going to be starting to work on your own personal wikispaces that you will be updating throughout the semester. My hope is that it will turn into your digital portfolio for the class. This way you don't have to carry around binders and resumes! You will be able to instruct employers and teachers to your wikispaces for all of your information! We will discuss this more tomorrow!

__**Wednesday, September 5th to Friday, Thursday, September 7th**__ :


 * __1st hour__**: During the first hour of class, my hope is that we will be filling out the forms for Mr. Skorpad. We will look at this more as he will tell us what we need to do!


 * __2nd hour__**: What we will be doing during this hour is signing up and creating a wikispace for our own personal and classroom use. I will be going over the steps and how to create certain things with you. After that I would like for you to go onto the internet and yes, even Facebook (if you must) to find the following pictures and save them to your network space:

Remember, you can save a picture by "right clicking" and the "save picture as" option. Please make sure to create a folder in your network space called " CWEX

1. Pictures of your favourite food 2. Pictures of your friends and family (school appropriate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) 3. Pictures from TV shows that you like 4. Pictures of your favourite musicians or bands 5. Pictures of your favourite movies 6. Pictures of your hobbies (cars, music, sports, shopping, recreations, etc.)

Here is the assignment and evaluation for your beginning wikispace:



These pages will change as we move along in the course. I chose these topics so that you can practice settign up and creating your own wiki! They will be more developed for CWEX as we move through the course!

Begin working on developing your own personal wikispace. We will be going over some of the basics of how to setup a wikispace in class an then you will be allowed to explore, on your own and with your classmates, on different things you can do with the wikispace site. Please refer to the handout for instructions (we will go over in class). As this is a big part of our class, I want to give you sometime to work on this project. You will be given the next few classes to get this completed.

Have a great weekend!!

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