High School Years
Grades 9 - 12
The graduation years will focus on preparation for post-secondary studies or entry into the workforce. As courses become increasingly specialized, students will continue to expand their knowledge and refine their skills in Language Arts, social studies, science, mathematics, fine arts, and applied skills. They will take courses that are directed toward the achievement of their personal and career goals. It will be the goal of WCA Canada to have the future students in grades 9-11 develop advanced skills and take more responsibility for their learning.
In the graduation years, students:
Apply knowledge and methods of inquiry in various disciplines
Participate in career development and work experience while at school
Solve problems, think critically and make decisions
WCA high school students are expected to:
Develop their ability to solve problems, think critically and make decisions;
Develop social and personal skills, good work habits, confidence, and sense of self-worth and understanding of the value of physical and emotional well-being. In the later intermediate years, students begin to take more specialized courses that are directed toward their personal and career goals. As they move through the program, they have more opportunities to direct their learning.
The curriculum for these years is designed to:
Allow students to participate in a broad-based education
Require greater personal and social responsibility by having students refine their personal and career plans and select areas of study that fit into these plans
Allow students to engage in independent directed studies
Allow students to receive credit for courses on the basis of their own general learning (challenge) and receive credit for equivalent documented learning acquired outside of school (equivalency)
Guide students to value life-long learning and to plan for and pursue educational and career choices.