Rehearsal... transition from school to adult life!

"Transition" is the operative word for this program. The Get Real Game focuses on the transition from grades 11 to 12 to postsecondary life. Using highly interactive activities, students strategize ways of acquiring necessary skills, training, education, and work experience to achieve their future goals.

The program offers an ideal opportunity for students to practise and hone the career and life-planning skills necessary for the 21st century.

Game Specs:

• Targeted for 11th- and 12th-grade students.
• Includes 13 core sessions, each with detailed lesson plans and all learning materials required.
• Optional activities and discussion topics are included for use at the discretion of educators.
• Allows students to pass through unique, transitional gateway events to a life that extend beyond the secondary educational experience(all in the classroom!
• Easily localized and linked to actual community resources and realities.
• Includes 13 to 20 hours of learning (more with optional activities).
• Realistically links students' life to work roles and personal career aspirations to all curriculum subjects.
• Can be team taught by teachers and counsellors.
• Lends itself to involvement by community members.
• Includes specific learning outcomes for all sessions with performance indicators compliant with the Blueprint for Life/Work Designs.
• Enhances the impact of career curriculum and other career development and teaching resources.