Educator Page
Welcome, educators! On this page, you will find useful tools for your classroom. From hands-on projects supporting the new K-12 curriculum, to helpful information for your post-secondary classes, we have resources available for you to use.
If you have any questions or need further information – please contact us.
Maker Way Projects – ITA’s Youth Discover the Maker Way
“Design thinking” is applicable to more than using everyday tools and traditional building materials! Check out our projects created for elementary school classrooms, pairing culinary with design thinking. Not only do these project templates meet the requirements for the ITA’s Youth Discover the Maker Way grant, but they are also connected to the Ministry of Education’s new ADST curriculum. Feel free to adapt the project to fit your classroom’s needs – enjoy!
- Inclusive Meal for All Challenge
- Local Food Challenge
- Zero Food Waste Challenge
- Emergency Preparedness Meal Challenge
- Inter-generational Recipe Saving
A heart heartfelt thank you to our contributors for these projects:
- Amanda Adams, Program Manager, Growing Chefs!
- Barb Finley, Director, Project CHEF
- Darren Clay, Executive Culinary Chef Instructor, Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts
- Helen Sortini, Executive Director, Growing Chefs!
- Lindsay Lindholm, Industry Development Manager, Hort Education BC
Cook, Baker and Common Core Module – ITA’s Youth Explore the Skills
Your students can experience firsthand what being a cook or baker is all about! Have you utilized the cook and baker of ITA’s Youth Explore Trade Skills in your classroom yet? The common core ties in all the trades together and has some great SuperHost™ sample resources to outline the importance of customer service skills for all trades.
Through this program, students get to sample three different trades. Certain school districts have been complementing the cook and baker modules with a Board Authorized third component. If you are interested in learning about what other districts have done, please contact us.
Resources
Infographics
Download, print and share these infographics with your students. We have created a double-sided provincial snapshot along with half page double-sided regional snapshots of BC’s Tourism Industry Workforce. Use this as a classroom reference to learn about our industry at a glance: What is our 10-year forecast for employment openings? Or how does our workforce compare to other industries? Take a look below.
Provincial Infographics
Regional Infographics
- Cariboo
- Kootenay
- Mainland South West
- North Coast and Nechako
- North East
- Thompson Okanagan
- Vancouver Island/Coast
We plan to update these annually when we receive the new labour market information every fall.
Career Explorer
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” If your students are struggling to figure out where they would like to work, whether that’s a part-time job throughout the school year or a career for after they graduate, direct them to these helpful resources:
- Is a Career in Tourism for You?
- Interactive Quizzes for Tourism
- Find a Job in BC Tourism & Hospitality
Got Skills? (Worksheet)
Every skill we learn along the way is a building block that contributes to our future career options. Skills are transferable and can be learned in a variety of settings, from playing on sports teams, volunteering, or while working your first customer-facing front-line job. Make a skills inventory with your students by using this worksheet.
Tourism Open Textbooks
These tourism-focused open textbooks can be a helpful complement to the content you cover in your classroom. Created by post-secondary tourism & culinary educators and go2HR, these resources are editable and free, designed with a first year post-secondary audience in mind. Take a look and adapt the relevant content to your audience.
- Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality in BC
- Working in the Food Service Industry
- Workplace Safety in the Food Service Industry
Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association Career Video & Guide
For students looking for a change of scenery, wanting an adventurous lifestyle, or already living in the area, encourage them to find a tourism job in the Thompson Okanagan area. With four ski resorts, 50 golf courses, and hundreds of resorts, restaurants, attractions and wineries, there’s a job for all types of personalities.
Created in partnership with the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association, this career guide and video feature reasons to work in the tourism industry, career success stories from youth working in the region, and useful information on finding a job in the region.
Relevant Industry Training Certificates
Prepare your students to help them enter the workforce with knowledge and confidence. go2HR offers the following industry-recognized certificates that all qualify for graduation credit through the Workforce Certificates 12 program.
Post Secondary Possibilities
Training Map
Do you have students interested in entering a post-secondary tourism and hospitality or culinary program? See all the programs available around BC on our Training Map!
Orange Book of Success
This book contains advice and tips from BC tourism industry professionals, the educational community, graduates and students. If any of your students are intending to pursue a post-secondary tourism and hospitality program, provide them with this helpful resource to get a head start with their planning. It includes helpful checklists, career profiles, industry tips and career planning advice.
Certifications for Cook and Baker trades are issued by the Industry Training Authority, and delivered through designated training providers and assessment agencies. Click here to learn more about the certifications available for these two trades.
ITA Youth has developed relevant programming for the K-12 system:
Training Map
Do you have students that are interested in entering a post-secondary culinary program? Show them all the programs available around BC on our Training Map!
Both employers and potential students use this page to find relevant culinary, tourism and hospitality programs. If your school offers a program, make sure to take a look to see that your program’s information is listed and up-to-date. Please fill out our form if this needs an update.
Culinary and Tourism Open Textbooks
These culinary- and tourism-focused open textbooks can be a helpful complement to the content you cover in your classroom. Created by culinary & tourism educators and go2HR, these resources are editable and free. Take a look and adapt the relevant content to your audience.
- A wide range of culinary textbooks can be found here.
- Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality in BC
Resources
Infographics
Download, print and share these infographics with your students. We have created a double-sided provincial snapshot along with half page double-sided regional snapshots of BC’s Tourism Industry Workforce. Use this as a classroom reference to learn about our industry at a glance: What is our 10-year forecast for employment openings? Or how does our workforce compare to other industries? Take a look below.
Provincial Infographics
Regional Infographics
- Cariboo
- Kootenay
- Mainland South West
- North Coast and Nechako
- North East
- Thompson Okanagan
- Vancouver Island/Coast
We plan to update these annually when we receive the new labour market information every fall.
Career Explorer
So your students are enrolled in the program and they’ve shown they’re dedicated to the industry – but with so many career options in tourism and hospitality, they may not be sure where they fit in yet. Direct them to our career explorer, quizzes or job board to help them figure out their next step, whether it is for their work experience through school or to establish a long-term goal.
- Is a Career in Tourism for You?
- Interactive Quizzes for Tourism
- Find a Job in BC Tourism & Hospitality
Training Map
Both employers and potential students use this page to find relevant culinary, tourism and hospitality programs. If your school offers a program, make sure your program’s information is listed and up-to-date. Please fill out our form if this needs an update.
Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association Career Video & Guide
For students looking for a change of scenery, wanting an adventurous lifestyle, or already living in the area, encourage them to find a tourism job in the Thompson Okanagan area. With four ski resorts, 50 golf courses, and hundreds of resorts, restaurants, attractions and wineries, there’s a job for all types of personalities.
Created in partnership with the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association, this career guide and video feature reasons to work in the tourism industry, career success stories from youth working in the region, and useful information on finding a job in the region.
Orange Book of Success
This book contains advice and tips from BC tourism industry professionals, the educational community, graduates and students. Provide your tourism and hospitality students with this helpful resource to get started with their career planning. It includes helpful checklists, career profiles, industry tips and career planning advice.
Tourism Open Textbooks
These tourism-focused open textbooks can be a helpful complement to the content you cover in your classroom. Created by post-secondary tourism & culinary educators and go2HR, these resources are editable and free, designed with a first year post-secondary audience in mind. Take a look and adapt the relevant content to your audience.
Indigenization Open Textbooks
These guides were created to support the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge into professional practice, enabling post-secondary institutions to continue to build the structures and processes by which Indigenous students experience their post-secondary education in resonance with their own lives, worldviews, and ambitions. These resources were created by the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training, and a Steering Committee of Indigenous education leaders. The content in these guides is authored by teams of Indigenous and ally writers from across B.C.
Relevant Industry Training Certificates
Online Training for New and Young Workers
Are your students gearing up to join the workforce? Whether they are looking for a part-time position or co-op placement while they are finishing their studies, or preparing for a career after graduation, you can help them get workplace-ready by encouraging them to take relevant training.
go2HR has launched Foundations of Workplace Safety and SuperHost Foundations of Service Quality. The two online courses are designed specifically for new and young workers. Students can work through both courses at their own pace and in the convenience of their own home.
Opportunities FOR Engagement with Industry
Partners in Tourism – TIP Society
The Tourism Industry Partners (TIP) Invitational Golf Tournament was established in 2005 to foster future generations of tourism professionals through scholarships and awards raised primarily through the annual golf tournament.
With the goal of placing the funds directly into the hands of the BC students and programs, $60K in scholarships and awards are distributed to students and programs on an annual basis. Learn more about this charity and eligibility criteria for the student awards or infrastructure assistance request by contacting us.
