BC Curriculum

At least 80 credits in total.

At least 16 credits must be Grade 12 level, including a required Language Arts 12.

At least 28 credits must be elective course credit.

52 credits are required from the following:

• Career-life Education (4 credits) & Career-life Connections (4 credits)
• Physical and Health Education 10 (4 credits)
• Science 10 (4 credits), and a Social Studies 11 or 12 (4 credits)
• A Math 10 (4 credits), and a Math11 or 12 (4 credits)
• A Language Arts 10, 11 and a required 12 (12 credits total)
• An Arts Education 10, 11 or 12 and/or an Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 10, 11 or 12 (4 credits total)

In addition, students must also complete three new graduation assessments:

• The Grade 10 Numeracy Assessment
• The Grade 10 Literacy Assessment
• The Grade 12 Literacy Assessment

Core Competence

Engage in deep, lifelong learning

• Intellectual
• Personal
• Social
• Emotional proficiencies

Literacy & Numeracy Foundation -> support students in their growth as educated citizens

• Competencies begins at home and continues throughout their life.
• Demonstrate in more complex and varied contexts: move from demonstrate competence in relatively simple and highly supported situations.
• Competency development does not end with school graduation but continues in personal, social, educational, and workplace contexts.

Communication:

• Encompasses the knowledge, skills, processes and dispositions we associate with interactions with others
• Fundamental to finding satisfaction, purpose and joy.