Course Planning: Grade 9 to 10

Outline

• Filling out your current courses

• Understanding graduation requirements

• Exploring course options for next year and beyond

• Filling out your course request form

• Entering course requests to MyEd BC

• What’s next?

Filling out your current courses- Each of you will receive a course request form

from me that looks like this:Start by filling out

your basic

information (e.g.

name, pupil

number, etc.).

Afterwards, circle

and write in all of

your current

courses and your

current teachers’

names

Graduation RequirementsTo graduate in B.C., you need to complete a total of 80

course credits (a full-year course is worth 4 credits)

• Below are courses you need to complete:

Language Arts 10, 11, 12 (12 credits)

Social Studies 10, 11/12 (8 credits)

Science 10, 11/12 (8 credits)

Mathematics 10, 11/12 (8 credits)

Physical & Health Ed 10 (4 credits)

Career Life Ed. 10 (4 credits)

Fine Arts/Applied Skills 10/11/12 (4)

* Grade 10/11 Electives (16 cr.)

* Grade 12 Electives (12 cr.)

Career Life Connections (4 cr.)

* Elective credits can be earned via additional “required” courses

Exploring Available Courses (1)A ‘typical’ grade 10 timetable would look

something like this:

Language Arts 10 Social Studies 10

Science 10 Mathematics 10

Physical Education 10 Career Life Ed (CLE) 10

Language 10 or Elective Elective

STEM and Mini have specific required and elective courses

You may choose an off-timetable course to “stretch” your

schedule so you can have one more elective course.

Exploring available courses (2)Starting in grade 10, some required courses have

different options for you to consider:

In language arts, you can choose any of the followingcoupled-course combos:

Literary Studies 10 + Composition 10

(Regular or Mini)

Literary Studies 10 +

Creative Writing 10

Literary Studies 10 +

Spoken Language 10

Exploring available courses (3)For math 10, you have to choosebetween two courses:

Workplace Mathematics 10 Foundations of Mathematics and Pre-Calculus 10

Exploring available courses (4)For PHE 10, there are two options for you to consider:

PHE 10 Regular PE 10 YOE (Outdoor Education)

Exploring available courses (5)For grade 10, there is a graduation requirement

course called Career Life Education (CLE 10):

Exploring available courses (6)• For detailed course description, please consult the course

selection handbook very carefully.

• The calendar can be viewed online at the school’s website: https://www.vsb.bc.ca/schools/templeton/Guidance-and-Support/Course-Planning/Pages/default.aspx

Exploring available courses (7)

• I have prepareda sheet listing courses availableto grade 9 students

• Use this sheet as a guide to select required and elective courses

Exploring available courses (8)• Use Education

Planner BC to help you do some earlyresearch into the courses you wouldneed to take

• By going backwardsin your research, you can get a senseof courses youwould need

Web address: educationplannerbc.ca

Exploring available courses (9)

Modern Languages Science Math

Language Arts Social studies

In addition to courses you can take at Templeton, students can also choose to attend

summer school for completion courses or take an online course for additional credits.

This is especially true for students thinking of taking multiple courses in a particular

subject area in grades 11 and 12.

Filling course requests (1)

Page two of

your course

request form

looks like

this. What I’d

ask you to do is

the following:

Filling course requests (2)• For lines 1 to 5, enter the course titles for the

required courses you want to take

• For line 6, enter Career Life Education 10 (CLE 10)

• For lines 7 & 8, choose a) a language + elective or b) two elective courses (you can add a 9th course if it is an off-timetable course)

• For alt. choices 1 to 3, choose three other alternateelective courses – they will become your electivecourse(s) if the one(s) you are chooseing in lines 7 or 8 cannot be given to you.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

• What about summerschool courses?

• What about online courses?

Work Time!We are almost done.

Now, it’s time for you to

browse the course

handbook, and begin

filling out your course

requests. Feel free to

ask me any questions

on a specific course(s).

What’s Next?• Discuss your course requests with your

parents/guardians at home

• Complete your course request form -make sure you have all the pre-requisitesfor courses you are signing up for!

• Have you and your parents/guardians signthe course request form

• Enter your course requests (NOT includingalternates) online through MyEd BC before February 8

• Return your course request form to me before February 8

• You are going to enter your course requests through MyEd BC

• Detailed instructions can be found on the handout provided

• The student portal will be open for course request entry from now until Feb 8, 2021

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Note: 1. There are multiple courses with

similar course titles – make sure you are

choosing the right ones. 2. Do NOT enter

alternate choices to MyEd

Completing Your Course Requests on MyEd BC

Forgetting Something?• Everything we’ve talked about today can be found on the

school’s site. Go to Guidance and Support → course planning and you can find everything there.

That’s it!

Yeah, that’s all… for now. Please don’t

hesitate to come in to see me if you have any

questions regarding course planning…