Ontario Grade 11 GPP3O Leadership and Peer Support (Grade 11, Open)
Chapters: 3
1. A. Personal Knowledge and Management Skills
A1 Personal Knowledge · A2 Leadership Qualities · A3 Personal Management · A4 Strategies and Resources
- Leadership and Management: Leading People, Teams and Change – Management gets work done through planning, organising, staffing, directing and controlling. Leadership inspires people to work towards a shared goal. Leaders choose a style that fits the people and the task, build qualities like communication and integrity, guide teams through their stages, plan projects with schedules, delegate well, and help people accept change.
2. B. Interpersonal Knowledge and Skills
B1 Interpersonal Relations · B2 Communication Skills · B3 Group Dynamics · B4 Connecting With the Community
- Leadership and Management: Leading People, Teams and Change – Management gets work done through planning, organising, staffing, directing and controlling. Leadership inspires people to work towards a shared goal. Leaders choose a style that fits the people and the task, build qualities like communication and integrity, guide teams through their stages, plan projects with schedules, delegate well, and help people accept change.
- Peer Support Communication: Listening, Feelings and Feedback – Communication is a loop: sender, message, channel, receiver and feedback, with noise that can block it. Peer helpers use active listening: face the person, eye contact, nodding, open questions and paraphrasing. Feelings are best shared as calm I-messages ('I feel … when … because …'), not bottled up or blasted out. Helpful replies show empathy and check understanding; unhelpful replies judge, dismiss or rush to advice. Good feedback is specific, kind and useful: name strengths (glows) and one next step (grow).
3. C. Exploration of Opportunities
C1 Accessing Options · C2 Developing a Plan · C3 Exploring Careers
- Leadership and Management: Leading People, Teams and Change – Management gets work done through planning, organising, staffing, directing and controlling. Leadership inspires people to work towards a shared goal. Leaders choose a style that fits the people and the task, build qualities like communication and integrity, guide teams through their stages, plan projects with schedules, delegate well, and help people accept change.
- Programming Basics: Sequence, Selection, Loops and Functions – A program is a set of exact instructions a computer follows. Every program is built from three structures: sequence (steps in order), selection (if/else choices) and iteration (loops). Variables store values. Functions group code into reusable, named blocks, which makes programs modular and easier to test, debug and maintain.
- Career Planning: From Knowing Yourself to Your First Job – Career planning has five steps. 1) Know yourself: interests, skills and values. 2) Explore career families and find out the work, study needed, pay and demand. 3) Plan a pathway with SMART goals and a plan B. 4) Search for jobs with a CV, cover letter, digital portfolio and interview practice. 5) Make the move from school to work and keep learning, because careers change over a lifetime.