Your program curriculum is designed to ensure graduates acquire the essential skills, knowledge, and attitudes appropriate and relevant to both the needs of students and employers.
Program Vocational Learning Outcomes
Program vocational learning outcomes describe what graduates of the program have demonstrated they can do with the knowledge and skills they have achieved during their studies. The outcomes are closely tied to the needs of the workplace. Through assessment (e.g., assignments and tests), students verify their ability to reliably perform these outcomes before graduating.
The program vocational learning outcomes for this program are:
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Conduct oneself in an ethical competent and accountable manner in all professional relationships. |
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Provide person directed supports/services that respect and promote self-determination for people with developmental disabilities. |
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Provide for safety for people with developmental disabilities, self and others in compliance with all applicable legislation, regulations and standards of practice. |
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Support the health and wellbeing of people who have a developmental disability. |
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Employ and adapt formal and informal strategies to support the learning of people who have a developmental disability. |
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Provide leadership in the development of inclusive communities |
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Develop professional and personal plans that enhance job performance and wellbeing. |
Essential Employability Skills Outcomes
Essential Employable Skills (EES) are skills that, regardless of a student’s program or discipline, are critical for success in the workplace, in day-to-day living, and for lifelong learning.
| New Essential Skills Outcomes | |||||||||
| 1 | Financial Literacy – Make responsible financial decisions with confidence using money management skills and knowledge. | ||||||||
| 2 | Applied Ethics – Respond to moral problems by analyzing and implementing practical solutions from an ethical perspective. | ||||||||
| 3 | Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship – Explore and create ideas that lead to innovation, entrepreneurship and social enterprise opportunities. | ||||||||
| 4 | Digital Literacy – Evaluate, create and share meaning through the use of new technology and media in a responsible and ethical manner. | ||||||||
| 5 | Collaboration – Work with others toward a common purpose. | ||||||||
| 6 | Cultural Competency – Interact respectfully with people across cultures. | ||||||||
| 7 | Social Responsibility – Reflect on one’s actions to engage in a process of continuous learning. | ||||||||
| 8 | Personal Resiliency – Build personal resilience to maintain one’s well-being, maximize performance and achieve goals in continuously changing environments. | ||||||||
Global Citizenship and Equity Learning Outcomes
There are six Global Citizenship and Equity (GCE) learning outcomes integrated into Diploma and Advanced Diploma programs as a component of Centennial’s Signature Learning Experience (SLE). The SLE reflects the College’s promise to provide students with a distinctive and inclusive educational experience that builds on a foundation of global citizenship, equity, and social justice. Certificate and Graduate Certificates also include at least two GCE learning outcomes. The GCE learning outcomes are:
- Identify one’s role and responsibilities as a global citizen in personal and professional life.
- Identify beliefs, values and behaviours that form individual and community identities and the basis for respectful relationships.
- Analyze issues of equity at the personal, professional, and global level.
- Analyze the use of the world’s resources to achieve sustainability and equitable distribution at the personal, professional, and global level.
- Identify and challenge unjust practices in local and global systems.
- Support personal and social responsibility initiatives at the local, national, and global level.
Global Citizenship and Equity Portfolio
As a component of the SLE, Diploma and Advanced Diploma program students will complete the Global Citizenship and Equity (GCE) Portfolio. Building the GCE Portfolio is a process of documenting your GCE learning. Each item selected for inclusion in the portfolio demonstrates growth and understanding of Global Citizenship and Equity within your program of study.
Students are encouraged to develop their GCE Portfolio beginning in their first semester. You will add artifacts from coursework and accompanying reflections as well as artifacts arising from co-curricular activities, volunteering, etc. to your portfolio as you progress through the program. You are encouraged to use the ePortfolio tools available on eCentennial, as well as to develop an online professional portfolio presence through LinkedIn and/or other personal websites/blogs.
