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Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Music 9-12

Connecting (M-C2)

Overall Expectations

The learner develops understandings about relationships between music and multiple contexts past and present by:

Specific Expectations

Visual Arts

An important goal of the Manitoba Visual Arts curriculum to is the help students “mature into visually and artistically literate adults able to enjoy, participate fully in, and think critically about and within the evolving visual culture that surrounds and exerts influence in their lives.” As a result, digital media literacy expectations are found throughout the curriculum at all grade levels.

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Visual Arts 9-12

Connecting (VA-C1)

Connecting: The learner develops understandings about the significance of dance, dramatic arts, music, or visual arts by making connections to various times, places, social groups, and cultures.

Specific Expectations

The learner develops understandings about people and practices in the visual arts by:

Career Development

The Manitoba Ministry of Education defines Career Development in this way:

The new realities of the contemporary workplace and the contemporary worker have changed our perception and use of the concept of career. Career development is now viewed as complex and multidimensional, involving growing through life and work - an interweaving of learning, experiencing, living, working, changing, and identifying and discovering pathways. Thus career development can be seen as the creation of an individual's life/work designs.

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Career Development 10: Full Credit

Personal Management

Overall Expectations

GLO A: Build and maintain a positive self-image.

Specific Expectations

1.A.4 Discover the importance of developing a realistic and positive self-image and the consequences of an erroneous one.

1.A.5 Identify how a realistic and positive self-image contributes to self-fulfillment, both personally and professionally.

1.A.6 Evaluate the impact of self-image on self and others.

MediaSmarts Resources

Watching the elections

Joe McGinniss’ book The Selling of the President had a shocking title for 1968, suggesting as it did that in the television age the presidency had become nothing more than another product to be packaged and sold. MediaSmarts’ resource, Watching the Elections (a lesson for Grades 8-12), shines a light on how the different aspects of an election – from the debates to political ads to the candidates themselves – are actually media products.

Events, Internet & Mobile, Journalism & News, Marketing & Consumerism, Resources, Television

Outcome Chart - Saskatchewan - Arts Education 9

Career Education

According to the document Career Education 9, “The Career Education curriculum is designed to develop the competencies required by all people to successfully manage their work and life.” Media and digital literacy skills and mostly found in the Change and Growth strand.