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Notes on Translation
The electronic translation service on the York Region District School Board's website is hosted by Google Translate. The quality of the translation will vary in some of the languages offered by Google. Google Translate is a free service and currently offers translation in over 50 languages, although an impressive number, this does not capture all languages or dialects. The basic translation’s goal is to capture the general intention of the original English material.
The York Region District School Board does not guarantee the quality, accuracy or completeness of any translated information. Before you act on translated information, the Board encourages you to confirm any facts that are important to you and affect any decisions you may make.
The York Region District School Board is committed to parent, family and community engagement, and it is our hope that by providing this tool on our website that we are making our information more accessible to families whose first language is not English and thereby enabling better engagement in public education.
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Ms. S. Sansom
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The Place of Canadian and World Studies in the Curriculum
In
Canadian and world studies, students develop skills, knowledge and
understanding, and attitudes that will serve them both inside and outside the
classroom, including in the world of work and as responsible citizens in the
various communities to which they belong. The focus of teaching and learning in
the Canadian and world studies curriculum is the development of ways of
thinking and of transferable skills that students need in order
to
acquire and apply knowledge and understanding. Students apply these concepts of
thinking and skills in a variety of contexts to examine information critically;
to assess the significance of events, developments, and processes; to develop
an understanding of and respect for different points of view; to reach
supportable conclusions; and to propose solutions to, and courses of actions to
address, real problems.
The Grade 9 to 12 Canadian and world studies curriculum shares a common vision with the Grade 1 to 8 social sciences, history and geography curriculum. That vision and the goals of the elementary and secondary program are as follows:
- develop the ability to use the "concepts of disciplinary thinking" to investigate issues, events, events, and
- develop the ability to determine and apply appropriate criteria to evaluate information and evidence
- develop skills and personal attributes that are needed for discipline-specific inquiry and that can be
- build collaborative and cooperative working relationships;
- use appropriate technology as a tool to help them gather and analyse information, solve problems
Taken from the Revised 2013 Ontario Ministry of Education Curriculum 9 - 12
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