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The GOAL Team

The introduction of the Guidance Oriented Approach to Learning has had an impact on many people in many schools within Western Quebec. Everyone involved in the school has a role to play in guiding students i.e. helping them to discover who they are and what they want to do in life so that they can be active members of society when they grow up.

“The implementation of the Guidance Oriented Approach presupposes the existence of a procedure and the participation of several people working together as a team. A preliminary assessment of the Guidance Oriented School projects carried out under the Supporting Montreal Schools Program shows that a major factor in their success is the collaboration of all personnel”.

Quebec, Ministère de l’Education, Direction de la recherché, The Guidance Oriented School: A Preliminary Assessment – Summary 2001

Participants in The Guidance Oriented Approach to Learning

Students: who have primary responsibility for their education and career planning.

Parents: who are responsible for their children’s education and are the school’s partners, for example, informing students about their trades and occupations.

Information, Counseling and Consulting Professionals: who provide support to teachers by integrating content into the subject programs, support to students by giving them individual help (guidance counselors) and organizing student’s life activities, and support to the school and the school board.

Teachers: who provide support to students in their subject-specific learning’s and student life activity’s.

Support Personnel (e.g. librarians): who provide access to sources of academic and career information.

The School Administration and Governing Board: who are responsible for the schools educational project.

The School Board: promotes the Guidance Oriented Approach in its schools, provides professional development for its school personnel and coordinates activities such as asking businesses in the community to host students for exploration activities.

The Community (workers, employers, organizations): provides support to the school team, for example by hosting young people in the work place or making presentations on trades and occupations.

The above table was taken from the booklet “Making Dreams Come True: The Guidance Oriented Approach” Ministere de l’Education, 2002

Resources for GOAL

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