Middle Years Education in Manitoba: Improving Student Engagement

My Student in Middle Years: A Resource for Educators and School Leaders

Integratables

The following resources, available on the Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning website, address integratable elements of education in Middle Years programming.


Career Development

Career development is a lifelong process of managing learning, work, leisure, and transitions, in order to become a reliable manager of work and personal life. “Middle Years Career development programs are exceptionally engaging to adolescents, providing them with opportunities to learn about and develop their strengths, interests, abilities, as well as their personal beliefs and values” (Successful Futures for All Students, p. 10).

  • Cover of A Career Development Resource for Parents A Career Development Resource for Parents guides parents in supporting their adolescent children as they explore and make decisions regarding career options.
  • Cover of Focus on the Future: Career Planning Begins at Home Focus on the Future: Career Planning Begins at Home is a handbook for parents of children in the Middle Years that helps encourage parents and children to begin thinking about and discussing career options.
  • Manitoba Sourcebook: Guidance Education: Connections to Compulsory Curriculum Areas, Kindergarten to Grade 12 contains learning outcomes connections for Middle Years: Career Component, Self and Work.
  • Cover of Successful Futures for All Students: A Guide to Career Development Programming for Manitoba School Leaders Successful Futures for All Students: A Guide to Career Development Programming for Manitoba School Leaders illustrates how Manitoba schools can integrate career development concepts, programming, and resources with curriculum outcomes in their classrooms. This resource shows how career development programming helps Manitoba students complete school and transition successfully to post-secondary education and/or the workplace.
  • Logo for Career Cruising Career Cruising is a career-exploration website. Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning no longer pays for school licences for Career Cruising.
    • Career Cruising’s ccSpringboard contains assessment tools, engaging and detailed career profiles, and comprehensive post-secondary information. This program can be purchased from Career Cruising.
  • My Blueprint Education Planner Logo myBlueprint is an online education, career, and life planner used by over 100 schools districts across Canada. The Manitoba edition of myBlueprint is an engaging, user-friendly, and intuitive program directly tied to the provincial curriculum. Students will discover their interests, explore new post-secondary and career-oriented opportunities, and build the necessary skills to succeed in life after high school, all while tracking their progress in an interactive, easy-to-share digital portfolio.
  • Success for All Learners: A Handbook on Differentiating Instruction, a print resource for Kindergarten to Grade 12 schools, offers teaching and learning strategies to support differentiation in Manitoba classrooms. This resource is not available online but may be found in your school library.

Differentiated Instruction

Classrooms today reflect a wide diversity of learners. Meeting the needs of these learners can be a challenge to teachers. Ensuring that all students are interested, engaged, and successful in their learning can be achieved through differentiated instruction.

  • Success for All Learners: A Handbook on Differentiating Instruction, a print resource for Kindergarten to Grade 12 schools, offers teaching and learning strategies to support differentiation in Manitoba classrooms. This resource is not available online but may be found in your school library.

Diversity Education

Public schools in Manitoba offer inclusive learning environments where students feel they are safe and where they feel they belong.

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

English as an Additional Language (EAL)

First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Education

First Nations, Métis, and Inuit education is one of the priorities of Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning. All schools in Manitoba are expected to integrate First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives into all curricula. Information and resources on Incorporating Aboriginal Perspectives and Native Studies are available on the department’s website, along with a variety of curriculum and support documents.

Literacy with Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Logo for Literacy with ICT

Literacy with ICT is choosing and using ICT, responsibly and ethically, to support critical and creative thinking about information and about communication as citizens of the global community. Literacy with ICT consists of critical and creative thinking, ethics and responsibility, and ICT literacy.”

  • Cover of Literacy with ICT Is for Me! Literacy with ICT Is for Me! A Parent Handbook on Learning with Information and Communication Technology provides a practical view of Literacy with ICT in the classroom. Parents or guardians will find practical ideas about supporting children’s use of ICT at home in safe and responsible ways.
  • Two Media Literacy websites were created by Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning to support the Media Literacy Week Celebrations in 2010 and 2011. You will find classroom resources on these sites:
    • Blurred Images encourages young people to strengthen their sense of self so they are better able to see through or brush off any negative messages they encounter through the media or elsewhere.
    • Digital We reminds young people of their rights and responsibilities as digital citizens.

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