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Specialist High Skills Majors (SHSM)

The Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) is a Ministry-approved specialized program that allows students to focus their learning on a specific economic sector while meeting the requirements for the Ontario Secondary School Diploma. The program also assists students in their transition from secondary school to apprenticeship training, college, university, or the workplace. A SHSM enables students to gain sector-specific skills and knowledge in the context of career-related learning environments and helps them focus on graduation and pursuing post-secondary goals. 

The following SHSM courses will be offered to Grade 11 & 12 students during the 2012-2013 school year. Contact your high school guidance department for more information, or click on the links below.

Experiential Learning

An experiential (exploring) learning activity connected with the student’s postsecondary pathway can be considered a “reach ahead” (focusing) experience. The activity can be recorded only once on the student’s Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM) Record as either an experiential learning activity or a “reach ahead” experience. Experiential learning is about making connections and strengthening relationships among learning partners. 

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Arts & Culture

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Offered at the following schools: 

  • All Saints High School
  • Immaculata High School
  • St. Paul High School
  • St. Peter High School 

Energy

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Offered at the following school:

  • Mother Teresa High School

Information & Communications Technology

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Offered at the following school:

  • All Saints High School

Horticulture and Landscaping

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Offered at the following school:

  • St. Patrick's High School
     

Health & Wellness

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Offered at the following school:

  • St. Patrick's High School
  • Holy Trinity High School

Transportation

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Offered at the following school:

  • Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School
     

Environment

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Offered at the following schools: 

  • Notre Dame High School
  • Sacred Heart High School
  • St. Mark High School
     

Social Justice

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Offered at the following school: 

  • Holy Trinity Catholic High School

Justice, Community Safety, and Emergency Services

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Offered at the following school:

  • St. Pius X High School