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Grade 12 – Senior Year

Life Skills & Personal Development

The practical sequel to Personal Development Skills: run a home, feed yourself well and safely, handle adult paperwork and institutions, get around, use health care and public services, manage adult relationships and civic duties, and stay effective when things go wrong.
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About Course

Life Skills & Personal Development is the practical sequel to Personal Development Skills.
Where that course built self-awareness, habits, communication and decision-making — and listed what
independent living requires — this one is about actually doing it.

It is deliberately practical. Every unit is built around the real tasks of independent adult life:
finding a place and knowing your rights as a tenant, planning meals and cooking safely, managing documents
and dealing with institutions, getting around, using health care and public services, handling adult
relationships and civic duties, and staying effective when things go wrong.

What you will study

  • Unit 1 — Running a Home: finding and securing a place, tenancy rights and
    responsibilities, utilities and household management, and home safety.
  • Unit 2 — Food and the Kitchen: meal planning and grocery management, food safety, and
    cooking fundamentals.
  • Unit 3 — Managing Your Affairs: becoming a legal adult, documents and records, and
    dealing with institutions.
  • Unit 4 — Getting Around: licensing and driving safely, and car care, transit and
    mobility planning.
  • Unit 5 — Health Care and Services: navigating health care, appointments,
    prescriptions and privacy, and public services and community support.
  • Unit 6 — Relationships and Community: family relationships as an adult, roommates and
    friendship, healthy adult relationships, and civic life in practice.
  • Unit 7 — When Things Go Wrong: household emergencies and preparedness, and decisions
    and problem-solving under pressure.

How the course works

The activities are applied tasks: a housing checklist, a repair request, a weekly meal plan, a
costed meal, a document inventory, a contact log, a commute comparison, a local services map, a roommate
agreement, a voting plan, an emergency kit and a first-calls list. Each unit includes teaching
lessons, interactive activities and a quiz marked automatically. A mid-course assessment follows Unit 4 and
a final assessment closes the course.

A note on law, health and local rules

The course uses the United States as its example and describes laws, programmes and health guidance in
general terms. Rules vary by state and city and change over time. The course is not legal or medical
advice; it points students to official sources and to trusted adults.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Find, secure and run a home — tenancy rights, utilities, routines and safety
  • Plan meals, shop on a budget, handle food safely and cook reliable meals
  • Manage documents, records and dealings with institutions as a legal adult
  • Plan transport, drive safely and handle collisions and breakdowns
  • Use health care, prescriptions and public services with confidence
  • Handle adult relationships, roommates, civic duties and decisions under pressure

Requirements

  • Personal Development Skills (Grade 10) recommended. This course builds directly on it and does not repeat its foundations.

Audience

  • Grade 12 students preparing to live independently, whether moving out, going to college, starting work or taking on more responsibility at home.

Course Content

Getting Started
<p>How this course works, what you will learn, and how you are assessed.</p>

  • Course Overview and Learning Objectives

Unit 1: Running a Home
<h2>Unit Introduction</h2> <p><strong>Personal Development Skills Lesson 6.4 listed what independent living requires. This course is about actually doing it</strong> — starting with the place you live.</p> <p><strong>Financial Literacy Unit 7 covered what housing costs.</strong> This unit covers everything else: <strong>finding a place without being scammed, knowing what a landlord can and cannot do, setting up utilities, keeping a home running week to week, and keeping it safe.</strong></p> <p><strong>None of this is difficult. Most of it is simply never taught</strong> — which is why so many people learn it the expensive way.</p> <p><em>Housing law varies by state and city. This unit describes common US rules in general terms; it is not legal advice. Check your local tenant rights before signing anything.</em></p> <h2>Unit Learning Objectives</h2> <p>By the end of Unit 1 you will be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Search for housing, view it properly and avoid rental scams</li> <li>Explain common tenant rights and responsibilities</li> <li>Set up utilities and run a household routine</li> <li>Keep a home safe from fire, gas, electrical and security risks</li> </ul>

Unit 2: Food and the Kitchen
<h2>Unit Introduction</h2> <p><strong>Health Education Unit 3 covered what food does and how to read a label. This unit covers getting food onto a plate</strong> — affordably, safely and without it becoming a daily struggle.</p> <p><strong>Three skills do most of the work:</strong> planning meals so you shop once and waste little, handling food so it does not make you ill, and a small set of cooking techniques that make a large number of meals possible.</p> <p><strong>No special equipment or experience is needed.</strong> A pan, a pot, a knife, a chopping board and an oven or hob are enough for everything in this unit.</p> <h2>Unit Learning Objectives</h2> <p>By the end of Unit 2 you will be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Plan meals and shop on a budget with little waste</li> <li>Store, prepare and cook food safely</li> <li>Use core cooking techniques to make simple, reliable meals</li> </ul>

Unit 3: Managing Your Affairs
<h2>Unit Introduction</h2> <p><strong>At 18, a great deal of responsibility moves from parents and schools to you</strong> — often without anyone saying so.</p> <p><strong>This unit covers the administrative side of adult life:</strong> what legally changes when you become an adult, which documents matter and how to keep them, and how to deal effectively with the offices, services and organisations that adult life involves.</p> <p><strong>It is the least glamorous unit in the course and one of the most useful.</strong> People who handle their paperwork calmly avoid a remarkable number of problems.</p> <p><em>This unit uses the United States as its example. Specific rules vary by state and change over time.</em></p> <h2>Unit Learning Objectives</h2> <p>By the end of Unit 3 you will be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Explain what legally changes at 18</li> <li>Identify, store and replace important documents</li> <li>Run a simple personal administration system</li> <li>Deal effectively with institutions, bureaucracy and customer service</li> </ul>

Unit 4: Getting Around
<h2>Unit Introduction</h2> <p><strong>How you get around shapes what jobs, study and social life are realistically open to you</strong> — and it is often the second-largest expense after housing.</p> <p><strong>Financial Literacy Unit 7 covered the cost of owning a car.</strong> This unit covers <strong>getting a licence and driving safely</strong>, <strong>looking after a vehicle and handling a collision</strong>, and <strong>the alternatives</strong> — public transport, cycling, walking and ride services — so you can plan transport deliberately rather than by default.</p> <p><strong>This unit is shorter than the others</strong>, with two lessons, because the cost side has already been covered.</p> <p><em>Licensing rules vary by state. Check your state's motor vehicle agency for current requirements.</em></p> <h2>Unit Learning Objectives</h2> <p>By the end of Unit 4 you will be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Describe graduated licensing and the main causes of young-driver crashes</li> <li>Handle a collision correctly and look after a vehicle's basics</li> <li>Use public transport, cycling and ride services safely</li> <li>Plan transport around cost, time and reliability</li> </ul>

Unit 5: Health Care and Services
<h2>Unit Introduction</h2> <p><strong>Health Education taught you how bodies and minds stay well. This unit is about using the systems that help when they do not</strong> — booking and getting the most from appointments, managing prescriptions, dealing with medical bills, and finding the public and community services that exist to support people.</p> <p><strong>Many young adults avoid health care simply because they do not know how the system works</strong>, or worry about cost. <strong>This unit takes the mystery out of it.</strong></p> <p><strong>Financial Literacy Unit 6 covered how insurance works</strong> — premiums, deductibles and related terms. This unit covers <strong>using</strong> health insurance, and what to do without it.</p> <p><em>This unit uses the United States as its example. Coverage, programmes and eligibility vary by state and change over time. It is general information, not medical or legal advice.</em></p> <h2>Unit Learning Objectives</h2> <p>By the end of Unit 5 you will be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Choose the right kind of care for a situation</li> <li>Prepare for appointments and manage prescriptions safely</li> <li>Handle medical bills and know your rights around privacy</li> <li>Find and apply for public services and community support</li> </ul>

Unit 6: Relationships and Community
<h2>Unit Introduction</h2> <p><strong>Personal Development Skills covered communication, assertiveness and boundaries. Health Education covered healthy relationships and consent.</strong> This unit applies those skills to the <strong>new situations adult life brings</strong> — changing relationships with family, living with people who are not family, making friends without school to do it for you, managing money and practicalities in relationships, and taking part in civic life.</p> <p><strong>These are the areas where adults often struggle most</strong> — not because the skills are hard, but because the situations are new, and nobody explains them in advance.</p> <h2>Unit Learning Objectives</h2> <p>By the end of Unit 6 you will be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Renegotiate family relationships as an adult</li> <li>Set up and maintain shared living arrangements</li> <li>Build and keep friendships after school</li> <li>Manage practical and financial aspects of relationships safely</li> <li>Register to vote, respond to a jury summons and take part in civic life</li> </ul>

Unit 7: When Things Go Wrong
<h2>Unit Introduction</h2> <p><strong>Every adult eventually faces a bad day</strong> — a power cut, a flooded bathroom, a lost wallet, a car that will not start, a scam realised too late, or a decision that has to be made now.</p> <p><strong>The difference between a bad day and a crisis is usually preparation and the first few decisions.</strong> This final unit brings together the practical knowledge from the whole course and applies it to situations under pressure.</p> <p><strong>Personal Development Skills covered decision-making models and resilience.</strong> <strong>This unit is about using them when time is short, stress is high and the stakes are real.</strong></p> <h2>Unit Learning Objectives</h2> <p>By the end of Unit 7 you will be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Prepare a household for emergencies and respond to common ones</li> <li>Stay effective under pressure, using a simple pause routine</li> <li>Triage problems and decide what to do first</li> <li>Recognise pressure tactics and get help early</li> </ul>

Course Completion
<p>Final assessment and full-course review.</p>

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