{"id":30,"date":"2016-12-04T14:50:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T14:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/moscrop-careerprep\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:46:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:46:52","slug":"how-it-works-90-hours-wex-12a","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/moscrop-careerprep\/career-prep-options\/work-experience-30-or-90-hours\/how-it-works-90-hours-wex-12a\/","title":{"rendered":"How it Works &#8211; 80 Hours &#8211; Career Preparation &#8211; WEX 12A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Career Prep 80 Hours is an <strong>elective<\/strong>. It is very popular but you <strong>do not have to<\/strong> take it! If you <strong>want<\/strong> to elect it, here is what you do:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Identify a career focus or goal. You may have more than one choice in mind.<br \/>\n(Example: accountant, carpenter, social worker, artist, travel agent, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Select <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>ONE<\/strong><\/span> focus area that best relates to your career plans.\u00a0 This focus area is not restrictive; therefore, you can request a work placement that is included in another focus.\n<p>Pick <strong>one<\/strong> of the following (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/moscrop-careerprep\/career-prep-options\/work-experience-30-or-90-hours\/how-it-works-90-hours-wex-12a\/90-hours-focus-areas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">potential careers for each focus area<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Business and Applied Business<\/li>\n<li>Fine Arts, Design, and Media<\/li>\n<li>Fitness and Recreation<\/li>\n<li>Health and Human Services<\/li>\n<li>Liberal Arts and Humanities<\/li>\n<li>Science and Applied Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Tourism, Hospitality and Foods<\/li>\n<li>Trades and Technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Choose four courses in Grade 11 &amp; 12 that will help you to support your career areas of interest.\u00a0 These are \u201cnatural\u201d choices that you most likely would choose.\u00a0 For example:\n<p>&#8220;I am interested in Accounting as a future career.\u00a0 I might select Accounting 11, and Math 11 Pre Calculus&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am interested in Health Science career.\u00a0 I might select Biology as my science 11, because it focuses on the study of living organisms&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am interested in Political Science as a career, I might select Philosophy 12 because it is a university entrance course, and teaches logical reasoning&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Meet with your Career Education Advisor to develop some personal goals for learning and skill development, discuss your career plans and work experience opportunities.<\/li>\n<li>Complete 80 hours of work experience and related assignments. It could look like:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Grade 11 \u2013 40 hours (5 days)<\/li>\n<li>Grade 12 \u2013 40 hours (5 days)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Your work experience must be a school-sanctioned opportunity <strong>related to your career plans.<\/strong> You cannot count your own paid or volunteer work.<br \/>\n<strong>*Note:<\/strong> You don\u2019t have to do the compulsory 30 hours that you need for your grad transitions on <strong>top<\/strong> of this \u2013 it is included in the 80 hours, so you are actually only doing 50 <strong>extra<\/strong> hours.<\/li>\n<li>In Grade 12 you will complete an Career Reflection Assignment (This will help with talking about your Work Experience as part of your Capstone Presentation.)<\/li>\n<li>At the end of Grade 12, you will get a letter grade for WEX 12A (4 credit, Grade 12 course) based on\u00a0 some forms\/assignments that you must complete and your Career Reflection Project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Although this is a Grade 12 course, you must register for it at the end of Grade 10 so that you will have 2 \u00bd years to complete the 80 hours of work experience. (If your Career Educator feels that it is appropriate, you <strong>may<\/strong> be able to start accumulating Work Experience hours near the end of Grade 10).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/moscrop-careerprep\/career-prep-options\/work-experience-30-or-90-hours\/how-it-works-90-hours-wex-12a\/procon-of-90-hours\/\">Pros and Cons of the Program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/moscrop-careerprep\/career-prep-options\/work-experience-30-or-90-hours\/\">Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Career Prep 80 Hours is an elective. It is very popular but you do not have to take it! If you want to elect it, here is what you do: Identify a career focus or goal. You may have more than one choice in mind. (Example: accountant, carpenter, social worker, artist, travel agent, etc.) Select &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/moscrop-careerprep\/career-prep-options\/work-experience-30-or-90-hours\/how-it-works-90-hours-wex-12a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How it Works &#8211; 80 Hours &#8211; Career Preparation &#8211; WEX 12A&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6960,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/moscrop-careerprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/moscrop-careerprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/moscrop-careerprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/moscrop-careerprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/moscrop-careerprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/moscrop-careerprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/moscrop-careerprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/735"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/moscrop-careerprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/moscrop-careerprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}