1. Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP)
Starts in Grade 11 or Grade 12 with the Cooperative Education program.
Students have an opportunity to become registered apprentices and work towards becoming certified journeypersons in a skilled trade while completing their secondary school diplomas.

2. Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP)
Students start training in a skilled trade while completing the requirements for an Ontario Secondary School Diploma;
School to work transition by direct entry into apprenticeship training;
Employers have the opportunity to train the skilled workers they require;
Addresses the problem of skilled tradespeople shortages in general, and specifically the lack of young people joining the trades.

3. Allows students to focus their learning for an OSSD on a specific economic sector
Agriculture
Arts and Culture
Aviation/Aerospace
Business
Community Safety and Emergency Services
Construction
Energy
The Environment

4. Offers first hand training in the four career pathways: apprenticeship training, college, university, or the workplace.
Forestry
Health and Wellness
Horticulture and Landscaping
Hospitality and Tourism
Information and Communications Technology
Manufacturing
Mining
Transportation

6. Select an area of interest based on personal strengths and weaknesses.
Focus is in Grade 11 and 12
Select an area of interest based on personal strengths and weaknesses.
Must take a bundle of courses that focus on the SHSM:
          4 major credits
            2 to 4 contextualized learning areas that support SHSM
            2 Cooperative education courses
Field trips, job shadowing, industry certificates (WHMIS, Standard First Aid, CPR)
Essential Skills and work habits required in the sector
Skills Passport (OSP)
Special Diploma with SHSM red seal

8. MISCONCEPTIONS

9. Since then, my teaching has been through a headset, talking to students I have never met yet feel like I know better than many that were in my class each day. 9

10. This is a screen shot of a Learning Strategies class
This is a screen shot of a Learning Strategies class. I was using this opportunity to demonstrate to students what a mind map was. As well, we were exploring the various ways to submit the mind map to the teacher – not always easy when students construct huge mind maps on white boards or bristol board. I could demonstrate several possible methods such as the digital photograph shown.

11. This is a screen shot of my current online office
This is a screen shot of my current online office. Students have submitted photos from vacations. I have posted a link for the geography students, and some students have been working out a problem in one of their geography assignments.

12. Determining the Needs of Special Students

15. eLearning Ontario Lead Teachers

16. Ontario Educational Resource Bank