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Editor's Notes
Have the left side of the split screen showing until you begin the presentation.
My job as the Guidance Counsellor assigned to your school is to prepare you for the Transition to TDSS.
Students from outside DSBONE (ECCS, Kiwetin, Laura McKenzie and St. Pat’s) will be required to complete a registration form that will be handed in with their Course Selection sheet. The rest of the feeder schools already have their Gr. 8 student information and files stored in our Guidance computer program!
Which subject areas are your favourites? What do you enjoy doing outside of school hours?
The courses at high school are driven by destinations….what can you see yourself doing after you complete your high school diploma?
Sources of information for their decision making= Course Selection Book, Gr.8 Welcome Night on Feb. 17 th , TDSS website, and their elementary teacher.
Explain that the students choose 8 courses. Each course is worth one credit. Before they graduate from high school, they will be choosing a required 30 credits, plus 40 hours of community involvement and they must also pass the Literacy Test in Grade 10. The easiest way to explain the “semester system” to the Grade 8’s is to tell them that four courses will be studied from Sept. to Jan. and the remaining four will be studied from Feb. to June) The six compulsory courses are easy to remember if you use the GEMS system plus French & Phys. Ed. Some IPRC students might be selecting three optional courses due to the waiving of the French compulsory. Another optional credit would be the Learning Strategies for these students. Remember to tell students that they will also be asked to select 2 alternate courses just in case they have timetable conflicts. The students will be selecting the “traditional” or the “non-traditional” Grade 9 Phys. Ed. Program. They must indicate this by choosing the correct code during course selection on the computer.
There are four parties involved in ensuring that your move to TDSS is a smooth one (six, if you need Special Education support). These four parties are your teacher, your parents/guardians, me, and most importantly….YOU. It is very important that you take care of the items on your To-Do List!
Stress the importance of meeting the course selection deadline and returning the Sign Off sheet to the Gr. 8 teacher by the Feb. 25 th as the deadline of Feb. 28 th is a P.A. Day and students won’t be at school!. At TDSS we date the Course Selection sheets. If it comes down to who gets into a class or not, we could look at the date that the Course Selection sheet was handed in!
Your teacher may not think that you are a Saint…but you become one in Sept. at TDSS.
The focus of the June visit will be to deliver and explain the timetables and to showcase the Grade 9 activities. Students will receive a map of TDSS in this package so they may plot their classrooms on the map for easier reference during the first day. Q/A session to help alleviate first day jitters will be included.
