Twenty-First Century Skills Award Act, 2011 O'Toole, John — Bill 26 (40th Parliament, 1st Session)

Bill 26, 40-1

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Bill 26, Twenty-First Century Skills Award Act, 2011

O'Toole, John

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Bill 26 2011

Act to create the Twenty-First Century Skills Award for school pupils

Preamble

Globally,

there is growing consensus that school students need to acquire more than just

knowledge to be successful in the 21st century. In 1997, the Organization for

Economic Cooperation and Development launched the Programme for International

Student Assessment, an assessment designed to determine whether children, at

the end of their schooling, have acquired the skills they need for successful

participation in society. The OECD and international scholars have identified a

set of what they consider are the key skills that children need to be

successful in a globalized and changing world.

Based

on the skills identified by the OECD, the Ontario Ministry of Education has

determined to include the following seven learning skills as objectives for the

regular curriculum of schools: responsibility, organization, ability to work

independently, collaboration, initiative, self-regulation and, if the pupil is

enrolled in a French-language instructional unit, ability in oral French. The

Government wishes to encourage school pupils to acquire these skills by

establishing an award for one elementary school pupil and one secondary school pupil

in each school board who demonstrates these skills.

Therefore,

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of

the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Definitions

1. In

this Act,

"board",

"French-language instructional unit", "Minister", "school year" and "teacher"

have the same meaning as in the Education Act ;

scolaire", "enseignant")

"elementary school pupil" and "secondary school pupil" mean a pupil

enrolled in an elementary school or a secondary school as defined in the Education Act , as the case may be. (" élève de l'élémentaire ", "élève du secondaire")

Award

(1) No

later than two months before the end of each school year, a teacher employed by

a board in a school may nominate a pupil who is enrolled in the school to

in French as Prix Compétences

pour le 21 e siècle if the teacher considers that the pupil during the current

school year has demonstrated the following skills in relation to school work:

responsibility, organization, ability to work independently, collaboration,

initiative, self-regulation and, if the pupil is enrolled in a French-language

instructional unit, ability in oral French.

Nomination

(2) To nominate a pupil for the award, a teacher shall

submit a recommendation to the Minister in writing identifying the pupil and

setting out the reasons for the nomination.

Selection

(3) The Minister shall evaluate the nominations received

and within two months of the end of the school year in which the nominations

were received shall select no more than one elementary school pupil and one

secondary school pupil for each board to receive the award if, in the

Minister's opinion, the pupil has demonstrated the skills listed in subsection

(1) in relation to school work during the year.

Selection

is not a regulation

(4) The act of the Minister in selecting a

pupil to receive the award is not a regulation within the meaning of

Part III

(Regulations) of the Legislation Act, 2006 .

Certificate

(5) The Minister shall issue a certificate to each pupil

selected to receive the award and, if the Minister considers it advisable to do

so, shall pay to the pupil the amount of a bursary in the amount determined by

the Minister out of the funds allocated by the Legislature to the Ministry of

the Minister.

Commencement

3. This

Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

4. The

short title of this Act is the Twenty-First Century Skills

Award Act, 2011 .

EXPLANATORY

NOTE

The

Bill allows the Minister of Education to confer an award known as the

Twenty-First Century Skills Award to no more than one elementary school pupil

and one secondary school pupil for each school board if, in the Minister's

opinion, a recipient has demonstrated the following skills in relation to

school work during the current school year: responsibility, organization,

ability to work independently, collaboration, initiative, self-regulation and,

if the pupil is enrolled in a French-language instructional unit, ability in

oral French. The Minister can also pay a bursary to a recipient of the award

out of the Ministry's budget.

Date Bill stage Activity Committee

December 6, 2011

First Reading

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

December 6, 2011

Committee

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

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