School Principals

• Convene a School Team responsible for developing a coordinated approach to delivering the ACGC to all students

• Decide who will be responsible for teaching each of the ACGC items

• Decide which ACGC will be covered in each grade level

• Present Governing Board with the proposed plan for implementing ACGC

Governing Board

• Each year, approves the plan for implementing ACGC in the school

Non-Teaching Professionals

• Participate in the School Team and assure the accuracy of career and academic orientation information

• Assist teachers in developing engaging and accurate lessons that achieve the ELSO for each ACGC item

• Assist teachers in accessing career orientation resources such as MyBlueprint

• Coordinate between Cycles and schools to assure consistency in the delivery of ACGC from year to year and school to school

Teachers

• Participate in the school team and assure that ACGC is infused into required subjects in a meaningful way

• Choose the most effective approach to use so that all students have access to ACGC, either by using preexisting learning situations or by developing their own lesson plans that infuse the content into daily planning for academic subjects

• Collaborate with Non-Teaching Professionals in order to assure the accuracy of information about academic pathways and occupations

There are six ACGC items for Elementary Cycle 3 and six ACGC items for Secondary Cycle 1. These content items can be taught in any order. However, most schools have found that there is a logical distribution of these content items from one level to the next. In order to facilitate planning in your school, we propose that you present ACGC as outlined in the tabs below. This is not prescriptive, and specific situations in your school may make it more appropriate to offer there content items in some other order. All content in Elementary Cycle 3 and Secondary Cycle 1 is mandatory, as of September 2019.

There are seven content items for Secondary Cycle 2. Of them, three are designated to be taught in Secondary 3. One Secondary 3 content item, usually the Draft of the Personal Profile, must be taught in the 2020-21 school year and all must be offered to all students, starting in the 2021-22 school year.

In 2020-21 one content item must be offered in Secondary 4 and one item in Sec 5. Full implementation is required in 2021-22.

MEES Directives regarding Academic and Career Guidance Content:

The Minister has established academic and career guidance content without creating a new subject, in accordance with his power to prescribe content in the broad areas of learning (Education Act, s. 461). School staff members are entrusted with teaching this content. The conditions and procedures for integrating the ACGC into the school’s educational services are developed in collaboration with teachers and proposed by the principal to the governing board for approval (Education Act, ss. 85 and 89).

Section 85

The governing board is responsible for approving the overall approach proposed by the principal for the enrichment or adaptation by the teachers of the objectives and suggested content of the programs of studies established by the Minister and for the development of local programs of studies to meet the specific needs of the students at the school.

The governing board is also responsible for approving the conditions and procedures proposed by the principal for integrating, into the educational services provided to the students, the activities or content prescribed by the Minister in the broad areas of learning.

1988, c. 84, s. 85; 1989, c. 36, s. 258; 1997, c. 96, s. 13; 2012, c. 19, s. 8.