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61. Educator Handbook for ADHD (2004)
Authors: Dauneen Abel, The Davis School District
Collection: Learning Materials
This handbook for educators on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) provides readers with basic information about this disorder. It has been organized to address the following topics:
- What is AHD?
- What causess ADHD?
- ADHD behavioural characteristics
- Positive characteristics
- Inefficient processing
- What really works for the ADHD student
- Quicks tios
- ADHD students in secondary school
- Where teachers can learn more (books, websites)
Added: 2009-03-18
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62. Elevating Workplace Literacy & Essential Skills - Focus: Health Care (2010)
Authors: ABC Life Literacy Canada
Collection: Research Materials
The goal of the project described here was to prompt action on helping workers whose limited literacy skills pose significant challenges to their workplace performance and success. Specifically, the project focused on entry-level workers in the health care sector.
Project objectives included demonstrating the costs and economic benefits of improving workers’ Literacy and Essential Skills (L/ES) levels; increasing employers’ awareness of workplace L/ES challenges; and helping employers develop strategies to meet those challenges.
The project report includes case studies of two workplace education projects, one in British Columbia and the other in Nova Scotia.
The project was funded by the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills (OLES) of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC).
Added: 2011-03-29
63. Equipped for the Future Assessment Report (2000)
How Instructors Can Support Adult Learners Through Performance-Based Assessment
Authors: Sri Ananda
Collection: Learning Materials
This guide presents information on how instructors can support adult learners through performance-based assessments. Prepared by the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL), this report introduces the Equipped for the Future Standards, a vehicle for aligning teaching and assessment with preparing adults to carry out everyday activities that are important to adult roles as parents, citizens, and workers.
The document is available free, either online or by mail, from the NIFL website at : http://www.nifl.gov For further information, contact : NIFL, 1775 I Street NW, Suite 730, Washington, DC, 20006-2401, USA, Tel. (202) 233-2025, Fax (202) 233-2050. (01.07.10)
Added: 2001-04-03
64. Essential Skills Program Implementation for Learning Networks: The Role of Employers and Learning Networks in an Essential Skills Program (2010)
Authors: Adult Basic Education Association (ABEA)
Collection: Learning Materials
This manual was designed to help Ontario’s Learning Networks with the implementation of brokering services for Essential Skills programs.
The authors explain that a learning network can play a role as a broker, acting as an agent or intermediary to negotiate and promote Essential Skills programs to employers. Brokering allows the network to use its expertise without a huge time commitment and maximizes its ability to promote Essential Skills programs in the community.
The authors explain the steps to becoming a broker; discuss whether brokering can be a revenue-generating activity; and provide a variety of broker tools.
Added: 2010-12-10
65. Essential Skills Training: The Foundation of Workplace Health & Safety - Case Study [Multiple Videos] (2012)
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Authors: ABC Life Literacy Canada
Collection: Learning Materials
Using a combination of text and short videos, this resource shows how Essential Skills training helped to improve health and safety performance at two Canadian companies.
The training is part of Essential Skills through Safety and Health (ESSH), a two-year project initiated by Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME) and funded by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) through the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills (OLES).
The project focused on workers who do not have English or French as their first language or who have trouble reading and writing in one of those languages. Its mandate was to embed Essential Skills into occupational health and safety training.
This resource is part of a series of case studies developed by ABC Life Literacy Canada to draw attention to successful workplace education programs across Canada.
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- Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME)
Added: 2012-11-14
66. Everything Present in the Seed: Community Leadership Facilitator’s Guide (2013)
Authors: Lucy Alderson, Kathy Coyne
Collection: Learning Materials
Everything Present in the Seed (EPIS) Community Leadership Training is a curriculum designed to help community members discover their innate leadership values and skills and, at the same time, improve their literacy and essential skills. It was developed through a partnership between Capilano University and a number of neighbourhood organizations in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The goal of this facilitator’s guide is to help community organizations and workshop leaders prepare to deliver the EPIS curriculum. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the EPIS manual.
Topics covered in the manual include assessing the readiness of both learners and organizations for the program; planning training sessions; ensuring inclusiveness; supporting English as a Second Language (ESL) learners; and using field trips to enhance the program.
The EPIS project was funded by the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (OLES-HRSDC).
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Added: 2013-06-05
67. Everything Present in the Seed: Community Leadership Manual (2013)
Authors: Lucy Alderson, Kathy Coyne
Collection: Learning Materials
This manual is one of the resources developed for Everything Present in the Seed (EPIS), a leadership training curriculum designed to help community members discover their innate leadership values and skills and, at the same time, develop their literacy and essential skills.
Funded by the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (OLES-HRSDC), the curriculum was developed through a partnership between Capilano University and a number of community organizations in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The manual was specifically designed to be accessible to participants who might not have completed high school, or whose first language is not English.
It contains 13 chapters dealing with such topics as the nature of community development; discovering leadership skills; building online communication skills; project planning; writing proposals; and sustaining growth. Each chapter provides an overview of key ideas; definitions of new words; exercises to help participants share ideas; links to online resources; opportunities to practise writing skills; and additional reading to expand participants’ thinking about volunteer work.
The EPIS materials also include a facilitator’s guide to help community organizations prepare to deliver the curriculum.
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Added: 2013-05-27
68. Expanding One's Environment for a Healthy Lifestyle (2010)
Authors: Meeka Arnakaq
Collection: Learning Materials
The author, an Inuk healer and elder from Pangnirtung, Nunavut, has drawn upon traditional Inuit practices in preparing this guide to living a healthy lifestyle.
The author uses the traditional igloo to explain the different components required to expand a person’s environment. The igloo’s foundation represents self knowledge; its snow blocks represent love and understanding within the family; and its porch points towards others in the community.
The author notes that the manual can be used by an individual or by a trainer leading a course.
The text has been directly translated into English from the author’s traditional teaching, handwritten in Inuktitut syllables. There has been only minimal editing of content and sentence structure, in order to maintain the integrity of the author’s work and oral traditional knowledge.
For more information on these resources, please visit http://www.lulu.com.
Added: 2011-07-12
69. Exploring the Impact of Theatre on Literacy and Upgrading Students: Marks on Paper (1992)
Authors: Cynthia Lee Andruske
Collection: Research Materials
This paper examines the impact of performing in Marks on Paper (1987), a type of popular theatre, on 22 learner/actors (15 women and 7 men), from the province of British Columbia, Canada, between 1989-1992. This study also documents transformation in perceptions and actions of 14 literacy (11 women and 3 men) and 8 upgrading students (4 men and women), focusing especially on women.
Added: 1992-01-01
70. Extending the Ladder (1997)
From CASAS to Work Keys Assessments
Authors: ACT Work Keys, CASAS Workforce Learning Systems
Collection: Research Materials
The goal of the CASAS' Work Keys study was to form a comprehensive assessment system that can be utilized by a variety of agencies, educational institutions, business and industry, and workforce development centers. By analyzing the data they obtained from reading and mathematical assessments, researchers involved in the project were able to investigate the relationship and provide linkages between the two assessment systems.
The study brings together two large-scale assessment systems, each of which provides important information about people: the assessment component of CASAS' Workforce Learning Systems which is designed to measure basic literacy skills within an employment context, and the assessment component of the Work Keys system which is designed to assess employability skills.
Added: 2007-04-10
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