National Adult Literacy Database

NOC 7251

Series: Trade Essentials: More skills ... more opportunities

Authors: Trade Essentials

Collection: Learning Materials

The Trade Essentials program was designed to help clients improve their essential skills so they are better prepared to advance in their chosen career. The goal is to provide a seamless learning path to trades certification.

This manual includes a guide for assessing existing essential skills; curriculum framework and guidelines; and a guide for the essential skills curriculum instructor. While the focus is on the plumbing sector, the authors have also included information about adult learning and trades education in general.

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Added: 2011-07-26

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• Manuel des compétences essentielles : Plombier

NOC 7313

Series: Trade Essentials: More skills ... more opportunities

Authors: Trade Essentials

Collection: Learning Materials

The Trade Essentials program was designed to help clients improve their essential skills so they are better prepared to advance in their chosen career. The goal is to provide a seamless learning path to trades certification.

This manual includes a guide for assessing existing essential skills; curriculum framework and guidelines; and a guide for the essential skills curriculum instructor. While the focus is on the refrigeration and air conditioning sector, the authors have also included information about adult learning and trades education in general.

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Added: 2011-08-16

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• Manuel des compétences essentielles : Mécanicien de réfrigération et d'air climatisé

NOC 7252

Series: Trade Essentials: More skills ... more opportunities

Authors: Trade Essentials

Collection: Learning Materials

The Trade Essentials program was designed to help clients improve their essential skills so they are better prepared to advance in their chosen career. The goal is to provide a seamless learning path to trades certification.

This manual includes a guide for assessing existing essential skills; curriculum framework and guidelines; and a guide for the essential skills curriculum instructor. While the focus is on the steamfitting and pipefitting sector, the authors have also included information about adult learning and trades education in general.

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Added: 2010-10-07

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• Manuel des compétences essentielles : Monteur d'appareils de chauffage

NOC 7265

Series: Trade Essentials: More skills ... more opportunities

Authors: Trade Essentials

Collection: Learning Materials

The Trade Essentials program was designed to help clients improve their essential skills so they are better prepared to advance in their chosen career. The goal is to provide a seamless learning path to trades certification.

This manual includes a guide for assessing existing essential skills; curriculum framework and guidelines; and a guide for the essential skills curriculum instructor. While the focus is on the welding sector, the authors have also included information about adult learning and trades education in general.

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Added: 2010-10-15

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• Manuel des compétences essentielles : Soudeur

Authors: Lee Torvi, Gary Johnston

Collection: Research Materials

This survey was carried to determine why workers affected by plant closures and layoffs in Ontario’s Renfrew County weren’t enrolling in programs offered by the area’s literacy and basic skills (LBS) agencies.

The survey showed that participants who have completed high school may still need further upgrading, especially if they are moving into other careers or seeking higher education; they are frustrated by the lack of coordinated services; and they are not aware that literacy and essential skills training are available, free of charge, in the community.

The authors have included the survey questions and a summary of responses.

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• Ontario Ministry of Education and Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities

Added: 2010-08-24

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Final Report

Authors: Tri-County Literacy Network

Collection: Research Materials

Over an eleven-month period, the Evaluating Outreach Strategies and Events (EOSE) project evolved from the need to better understand how to reach out to potential learners in the Tri-County area to a pilot implementation strategy that involved two spokespeople, two new promotional materials with a focused message and a targeted outreach model based on word-of- mouth referrals.

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• OLES
• Ontario Ministry of Education and Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities

Added: 2006-05-04

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Series: l

Authors: Tri-County Literacy Network (TCLN)

Collection: Research Materials

This document outlines the Evaluating Outreach Strategies and Events project carried out in the Chatham-Kent, Essex and Lambton counties areas of Ontario during 2002-03. The authors describe how the project evolved from trying to find ways to reach out to potential learners to a pilot implementation strategy that focuses on a targeted outreach model based on word-of-mouth referrals.

The project involved telephone interviews, focus groups, and the preparation of promotional material.

The authors found that single mothers were underrepresented in Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) programs in the area. They recommend involving current or graduate learners as spokespersons to encourage other potential learners to enrol in programs.

Added: 2011-11-25

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Authors: Taber & District Community Adult Learning Association

Collection: Learning Materials

This handbook was developed for use by Community Adult Learning Centres (CALCs) in Alberta, though the authors note that it can be used in other literacy settings.

An evidence file is similar to a learning or career portfolio. While a portfolio typically includes an autobiographical essay, learning statements, and documented evidence of prior learning, an evidence file contains only documented evidence of prior learning related to a specific goal. That evidence might include a goal statement or cover letter, resumé, letters of reference or verification, sample work documents, skills checklists, certificates, and performance assessments.

The handbook includes sections on how evidence files can help individuals; what to include in the file; different types of evidence of learning; the stages in developing an evidence file; and next steps to take after preparing the file.

The handbook grew out of a project linked to the Alberta government’s goal of increasing learners’ access to Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR), the recognition of the knowledge and skills an individual has acquired through non-formal and informal learning.

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• Government of Alberta

Added: 2013-04-26

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Authors: Audrey M Thomas

Collection: Research Materials

The author was asked to "research and report in writing on existing programs and delivery mechanisms for adult literacy that might be seen as 'exemplary' by adult literacy practitioners in British Columbia." This report provides descriptive case-studies of thirteen innovative adult literacy programs in Canada, many of which have been in existence for nearly ten years or more and thus have a track record. Some of the thirteen are younger, but were chosen because of some innovative practices or project(s) in which they are engaged. After these descriptions there are five shorter descriptions of programs or parts of programs which are particularly innovative or serve to illustrate a particular point. Finally, there is a list of some innovative practices among Native groups in Ontario.

Added: 2002-07-31

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Authors: Maurice C. Taylor

Collection: Research Materials

This article analyzes 18 qualitative case studies of workplace education programs in Canada using a framework of principles of good practice. Results indicated that many of the components can be used as guide posts in the development of workplace education initiatives. In addition, certain framework components are supported, further defined and provide a foundational base for understanding the complexity of workplace learning.

Added: 1997-01-01

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