Interpersonal and Family Relationships 11
Curricular Competencies
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Applied Design
Understanding context
- Engage in research and empathetic observation to determine service design opportunities and barriers
Defining
- Establish a point of view for a chosen service design opportunity
- Identify context and requirements and wishes of people involved
- Identify criteria for success, intended valued impact, constraints, and possible unintended negative consequences
Ideating
- Take creative risks in generating ideas and add to others’ ideas in ways that enhance them
- Screen ideas against criteria and constraints
- Analyze potential competing factors to meet individual, family, and community needs for preferred futures
- Identify, prioritize, and apply sources of inspiration and information, and include people involved when possible
Prototyping
- Develop a product and/or service plan that includes key stages and resources
- Evaluate strategies for effective use and possible individual, familial, and community impacts
Testing
- Identify and access sources of feedback
- Consult with people involved to gather constructive suggestions for improvement
- Use consultation data and feedback to make appropriate changes
- Identify and use appropriate strategies
- Use project management processes throughout when working individually or collaboratively
Sharing
- Share progress to increase opportunities for feedback and collaboration
- Decide on how and with whom to share or promote product or service and strategies
- Critically assess the success of their product or service plan and explain how the ideas contribute to the individual, family, community, or environment
- Critically reflect on their processes and ability to work effectively, both individually and collaboratively, including their ability to share and maintain an efficient co-operative workspace
Applied Skills
- Apply precautionary, safe, and supportive interpersonal strategies and communications, both face-to-face and digital
- Identify and assess the skills needed, individually or collaboratively, in relation to projects, and develop plans to refine them over time
- Critically reflect on cultural sensitivity and etiquette skills, and develop specific plans to learn or refine them over time
- Apply audience-appropriate interviewing and consultation etiquette
Applied Technologies
- Explore existing, new, and emerging tools and technologies and evaluate suitability for design interests
- Evaluate impacts, including unintended negative consequences, of choices made about technology use
- Analyze the role technologies play in societal change and interpersonal communications
- Examine how cultural beliefs, values, and ethical positions affect the development and use of technologies
MediaSmarts Resources
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Dealing with Digital Stress
- Digital Media Experiences are Shaped by the Tools We Use: The Disconnection Challenge
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads - Lesson
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Online Gambling and Youth
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
- Privacy Rights of Children and Teens
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- Sex in Advertising
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
Content
Students are expected to know the following:
- service design opportunities for individuals and families across their lifespan
- factors involved in interpersonal relationships, including types, roles, and functions
- nature of committed relationships, including the influences of community and culture
- factors involved in ending relationships
- components of healthy relationships and how to thrive and reciprocate in a variety of interpersonal relationships
- indicators of unsafe relationships and actions to ensure safety of self and others
- interpersonal relationship communication styles and strategies
- cultural sensitivity and etiquette, including ethics of cultural appropriation
- problem-solving models