GLC2O Unit 3: The World of Work

Students explore technological, economic and social trends that are changing work (automation and AI, gig and platform work, remote work, the green economy and an aging population) and how laws respond. They learn their rights and responsibilities under Ontario's Employment Standards Act and Occupational Health and Safety Act, including the right to know, the right to participate and the right to refuse unsafe work. They connect transferable skills to all five destinations and plan how to grow them, analyse the influences beyond interests that shape choices, learn to manage their digital footprint and personal information, and build and use their network, including informational interviews. The summative, the Future of Work Report, becomes part of Section 3 of the Career Portfolio.

Assessment of learning: Future of Work Report: research one occupation, the trends affecting it, the transferable skills it needs and the rights and responsibilities of its workers.

Lessons

1. Work Is Changing
2. Workers' Rights and Responsibilities
3. Transferable Skills
4. What Shapes Our Choices?
5. My Digital Footprint
6. Networking

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, look-fors and answer guides
• Detailed slideshows (15 to 18 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus warm-ups, worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, organizers and exit tickets, with original scenarios and examples
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview and the summative task with a rubric and teacher guide

Built for the Ontario curriculum (Career Studies, Grade 10, Open, GLC2O, 2024, including the mental health literacy expectations) and Ontario's 2026 evaluation policy (65% classroom work, 15% culminating task, 5% financial literacy graduation requirement, 15% attendance and participation), and easy to adapt for any Canadian career education course.

Need just one lesson? Single lessons from this unit will also be available for CA$3.99 each.