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181. Preparing for Technical Training: Essential Skills for Water/Wastewater Operators, Levels 1 & 2 - Course Overview (2010)
Series: Preparing for Technical Training: Essential Skills for Water/Wastewater Operators
Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)
Collection: Learning Materials
This document provides an overview of a course designed to train people to work in water and wastewater treatment facilities.
The course consists of eight classes, each five hours in length. Course materials include a pre-assessment test, along with eight modules for the teacher to complete with learners.
The modules include a basic math refresher; fractions, decimals and percents; measurement conversions; linear, area and volume calculations; solving equations; chemical measurements; hydraulics; and wastewater and electricity.
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Added: 2011-12-02
182. Preparing for Technical Training: Essential Skills for Water/Wastewater Operators, Levels 1 & 2 - Curriculum (2010)
Series: Preparing for Technical Training: Essential Skills for Water/Wastewater Operators
Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)
Collection: Learning Materials
This is the curriculum for a 40-hour course developed to train people to work in water and wastewater treatment facilities.
The curriculum has been designed to be presented in eight modules: a basic math refresher; fractions, decimals and percents; measurement conversions; linear, area and volume calculations; solving equations; chemical measurements; hydraulics; and wastewater and electricity.
Each module begins with a list of objectives, explaining what the student will be expected to know upon completion of the unit.
While most of the units are designed to be taught by the instructor, the authors note that some can be studied by the student on his own.
Added: 2012-01-24
183. Preparing for Technical Training: Essential Skills for Water/Wastewater Operators, Levels 1 & 2 – Teacher’s Guide (2010)
Series: Preparing for Technical Training: Essential Skills for Water/Wastewater Operators
Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)
Collection: Learning Materials
This is the teacher’s guide for a 40-hour course developed to train people to work in water and wastewater treatment facilities.
The material has been divided into eight modules: a basic math refresher; fractions, decimals and percents; measurement conversions; linear, area and volume calculations; solving equations; chemical measurements; hydraulics; and wastewater and electricity. Each module includes a variety of practice exercises, with answers provided.
The authors have also included several formula sheets for quick reference. Some of the formula sheets offer general mathematical information, like the formulas for determining area and volume, while others are oriented specifically to the water/wastewater sector and contain information about such topics as flow rates, sludge density index, and solids retention time.
Added: 2012-01-24
184. Preparing Your Child For School (1998)
Western Quebec School Board Family Literacy Project
Authors: Western Quebec School Board
Collection: Learning Materials
Parents have a very important role to play in their child's education. Help and encouragement are needed to develop a child's reading, writing and language skills. If you are new to parenting and have a baby or a pre-schooler at home, you will appreciate the information this booklet offers.
Added: 2003-07-24
185. Prescription for Learning - Communication Skills for the Practice of Pharmacy (2003)
Facilitator's Guide
Series: Prescription for Learning
Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba
Collection: Learning Materials
This is the facilitator’s guide for Prescription for Learning, a 50-hour program designed to help integrate International Pharmacy Graduates (IPGs) into the Canadian workforce. An IPG is someone who completed training in pharmacy outside of Canada, and for some of them, English may be a second language.
The guide begins with an introduction to the program’s core areas, which include the culture of the Canadian workplace; communication, both verbal and non-verbal; problem solving; and written communication.
The program is designed to be delivered in seven sessions, each one seven hours long, and the guide includes detailed instructions on what is covered in each session.
Added: 2012-02-17
186. Prescription for Learning - Communication Skills for the Practice of Pharmacy - Overview (2003)
Series: Prescription for Learning
Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)
Collection: Learning Materials
This document provides an overview of Prescription for Learning, a 50-hour program designed to help integrate International Pharmacy Graduates (IPGs) into the Canadian workforce. An IPG is someone who completed training in pharmacy outside of Canada, and for some of them, English may be a second language.
Core areas of the program include the culture of the Canadian workplace; communication; problem solving; and written communication.
Added: 2012-02-21
187. The Privatization of Training: Women Pay the Cost (1988)
Women's Education des femmes, Winter 1988 - Vol. 6, No. 1
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Susan Witter, Terry Dance
Collection: Research Materials
In this article, the authors take the position that the privatization of training as a systemic trend is detrimental to women.
Added: 2004-09-09
188. Productivity, Employment, and Essential Skills (2000)
Conference Final Report
Authors: Western Canada Workplace Essential Skills Training Network (WWestNet)
Collection: Research Materials
These are notes from the fourth WWestnet conference. Its goal was to have participants pause to ‘take stock' of the progress made during the last ten years; then to look forward to the challenges facing the Canadian workforce in the new century. The conference evaluations indicate that most people thought the conference was worthwhile, with high ratings for organization and overall success.
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Added: 2006-06-14
189. Purposeful Literacies Through Informal Learning (2004)
A Resource for Literacy Practitioners
Series: Informal Learning Practices and Media Perceptions of Adults with Low Literacy Skills
Authors: Maurice C. Taylor, Brenda Wright
Collection: Research Materials
This resource guide provides information on informal learning. Barriers to the learning process are discussed, as well as how to help adult literacy learners overcome those barriers. The resource talks about adult learners' motivations for learning, their beliefs, and how culture affects learners.
The resource guide is part of a series of documents generated during a two-year National Literacy Secretariat funded research project entitled, “Informal Learning and Media Perceptions of Adults With Low Literacy Skills”.
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Added: 2004-01-01
190. Pushed Through and Second Chances: Stories About the Right to Read (2003)
Authors: Libby Creeman, Agnes Walsh, Ed Kavanagh
Collection: Learning Materials
This book is based on interviews with adult learners and contains the interviews/essays and a finished play.
The idea for the project was to explore, through interviews, some of the less obvious reasons why people end up with poor literacy skills and to prepare a theatrical presentation based on these real–life stories.
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Added: 2005-07-04
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