Know Your Risk: A Risk Awareness Program
The Know Your Risk resource is recommended for use in Law, Economics, Business Studies, Family Studies, Career Studies, and Life Skills classrooms, as well as in other subject areas where the topic of risk and managing risk in daily life is a consideration.
Description
Insurance Institute of Canada
, 2003
44 pages, colour, coil-bound, softcover
Grades : 7-9
Concepts : Safety, responsibility, judgment, health, risk management
Subjects : Career Guidance and Life Skills, Health and Physical Education, Business Studies, Social Sciences
CSC Evaluation
Curriculum Correlation
The Know Your Risk resource supports learning outcomes in any classroom where there is a consideration of risk and how it impacts on students' decision-making. This resource would be useful in a variety of subject areas including Career Education, Guidance, and Physical Education.
Content
The information is credible, reliable, and current. Students are provided with opportunities to consider the topic of risk and how to manage risk in their daily lives. The resource makes links to a variety of risks that students, families, and employees may experience in a number of industries. The producer has used credible resources from all Canadian provinces, thus enabling the resource to be used in classrooms across the country. Both rural and urban risk management and risk responsibility scenarios are presented.
Methodology
Activities are simple to use and provide opportunities to investigate and evaluate personal risk situations and to apply those experiences to new situations. Learning opportunities include both student- and teacher-centred activities. A variety of real-life situational exercises provide opportunities for students to demonstrate their understanding of learning material both orally and in written form. Learners are consistently challenged to practise investigative thinking skills and further evaluate their research or personal choices in order to develop a personal risk management plan.
Assessment
The resource package provides opportunities for students to demonstrate their knowledge of risk management in a variety of practice situations. Although teachers may use the learning activities and exercises to assess student achievement of a variety of expectations, the resource does not include ready-made assessment and evaluation tools.
Format
The format of the module-style resources in the package is well-suited for educational purposes. Booklet pages are made of durable stock and are coil-bound, allowing teachers to reproduce activity sheets with ease. Teachers may want to include creative activity sheets.
Bias
Diversity is promoted throughout the learning material.
Review Recommendation
The Know Your Risk resource is recommended for use in Law, Economics, Business Studies, Family Studies, Career Studies, and Life Skills classrooms, as well as in other subject areas where the topic of risk and managing risk in daily life is a consideration.
Contact Information
Tammye Bedard
Career Connections Officer
Insurance Institute of Canada
18 King Street East, 6th Floor
Toronto, ON M5C 1C4
416-362-8586
Toll Free: 1-866-362-8585
Fax: 416-362-2692
http://www.career-connections.info
Margaret Parent
Director, Professionals Division
Insurance Institute of Canada
18 King Street East, 6th Floor
Toronto, ON M5C 1C4
416-362-8586 ext. 2243
Toll Free: 1-866-362-8585
Fax: 416-362-2692
e-mail: mparent@insuranceinstitute.ca
http://www.career-connections.info
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