SHSM Application Package
What is SHSM?
The Specialist High Skills Major program is a ministry-approved specialized program that allows students to focus their learning on a specific economic sector while meeting the requirements to graduate from secondary school. It also assists in their transition after graduation to apprenticeship training, college, university or the workplace.
Each Specialist High Skills Major is a bundle of 8 to 10 courses within a selected field/sector completed in grades 11 and 12. Students choosing a SHSM program learn on the job with employers as well as in school, earning valuable industry certification and training related to their chosen sector.
Pursuing a SHSM helps students to:
Students who successfully complete a SHSM receive an Ontario Secondary School Diploma with an embossed red seal, an SHSM record documenting their achievement, and formal recognition on their Ontario Student Transcript.
To learn more about SHSM programs at LBP, read through the individual program pages & brochures, and talk to your guidance counselor.
Each Specialist High Skills Major is a bundle of 8 to 10 courses within a selected field/sector completed in grades 11 and 12. Students choosing a SHSM program learn on the job with employers as well as in school, earning valuable industry certification and training related to their chosen sector.
Pursuing a SHSM helps students to:
- Customize their secondary school education to suit their interests and talents.
- Develop specialized knowledge and skills.
- Earn credits that postsecondary educational institutions and the sector recognize.
- Gain sector-recognized certification and career-relevant training.
- Develop essential skills and work habits documented through the Ontario Skills Passport.
- Identify, explore and refine career goals and make informed decisions about their future.
- Remain flexible, with the option to shift between pathways, should their goals and plans change.
Students who successfully complete a SHSM receive an Ontario Secondary School Diploma with an embossed red seal, an SHSM record documenting their achievement, and formal recognition on their Ontario Student Transcript.
To learn more about SHSM programs at LBP, read through the individual program pages & brochures, and talk to your guidance counselor.
