Summer registration now open!

July 5 – August 12

$325 /student

Registration closes June 24 

COOP DESIGN JAM program provides Cooperative Education students in grade 11 & 12 with the opportunity to develop transferable employability skills!

Using the Sustainable Development Goals, students will learn and apply Design Thinking creative problem-solving methodology to offer new solutions to challenges each career sector is facing in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Students will connect with professionals and entrepreneurs (Sector Champions) from various career sector themes to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges they have faced during the Covid-19 pandemic. Sector Champions will be invited to pitch presentations with the opportunity to provide feedback. 

Each student will complete the program with a visual skills portfolio in addition to the following transferable skills:

• • Public speaking
  • Project management
  • Collaboration
  • Innovation
  • Creativity
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Strategic thinking

PROGRAM ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:

• • 6 live virtual 2-hour workshops from 10am – 12pm delivered in the Unearth Education learning platform
    • July 6: Program Launch
    • July 8: Design Thinking and Project Management workshop
    • July 14: Infection Prevention and Control workshop + Design Check-in
    • July 21: ACED IT! workshop + Design Check-in
    • July 28: Career Exploration Forum & Pitches!
    • August 4: Skills Portfolio Development workshop & Wrap Up
  • Career Exploration Forum
    • • Various professionals and entrepreneurs from the career sector themes who will share their career journey.
  • 5 certificates of completion
    1. Design Thinking (SPE)
    2. Communication Skills and Public Speaking
    3. Project Management
    4. Infection Prevention & Control
    5. Skills Portfolio Development
  • Assignments created by certified teachers and a rubric based on the 2018 cooperative education curriculum.
  • Virtual Help available for students Tuesday – Thursday.
  • Team ICE Challenge Workbook
  • Student Workbook with individual assignments

CAREER SECTOR THEMES 

DETAILS AND LOGISTICS

Enrollment 

• • Registration closes on Thursday, June 24th.
  • Program requires a minimum of 40 students and a maximum of 60 students cumulative across all school boards.
  • UEÉ will notify teachers by Friday, June 25th to confirm that the program reached minimum registrations.

Technology

• • Students and teachers will receive a login to the UEÉ learning platform on Monday, July 5th.
  • Students require a computer with a camera and microphone to participate.
  • All content and workshops will be available inside the learning platform. Students are required to login with their username and password to participate.

Unearth Education Éveillée will:

• • Provide experienced, dynamic and engaging coaches to deliver live workshops.
  • Recruit and prepare Industry Sector Champions.
  • Manage registration.
  • Assign student teams. It is likely that students will be paired with others from different boards.
  • Create user accounts in the learning platform for teachers and students to access the program.
  • Prepare certificates of completion & send them directly to students (Teachers will receive a copy).

Teachers will:

• • Select the Career Sector theme for their students.
  • Attend the live workshops with their students to moderate student attendance and behaviour.
  • Allocate in-class work sessions for students to work with their team to complete program requirements. Allocate additional in-class time for students to complete individual workshop assignments.
  • Monitor student progress and receive student assignments.
  • Confirm that their students completed all requirements.

When registering, teachers must provide the following for each student:

• • Full name
  • Email
  • Career sector theme selection

Contact Jennifer Regnier (jennifer.regnier@uneartheducation.com) for more information.