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41. Living and Learning (2006)
Essential Skills Success Stories
Series: Awareness Tools - HRSDC
Authors: Human Resources and Social Development Canada
Collection: Learning Materials
Taking time to work on Essential Skills often leads to success in the workplace and at home. It offers workers a bright future, while greatly improving day-to-day life. Essential Skills help people to carry out different tasks, give them a starting point for learning other skills, and help them adjust to change. This booklet includes six real stories about Canadian workers who have taken time to work on their Essential Skills. By improving their skills, these individuals were more successful at work and at home. Hopefully these stories will inspire others to work on their own Essential Skills. A guide to improving Essential Skills is included. It is based on what was learned from the workers’ stories.
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Added: 2008-04-15
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42. Make it Real: Participatory Action Research with Adult Learners (2006)
Series: Research in Practice Projects
Authors: Dee McRae
Collection: Research Materials
This document offers an approach to teaching adult literacy learners that is respectful of their current place in the world and also allows them to develop personal skills and capacities to allow them to further explore, expand and negotiate their world. The author will show the reader the ways this happened, and what she thinks caused this growth to occur in a project she facilitated "Hair Straight Back".
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Added: 2007-12-13
43. Make Skills a National Priority (2001)
Consultations by the Canadian Labour and Business Centre
Authors: Canadian Labour and Business Centre
Collection: Research Materials
This report is a synthesis of policy directions and approaches that could help meet Canada's current and future needs for skilled workers.
Earlier national business-labour leadership surveys by the Canadian Labour and Business Centre indicate that "skills shortages" — which as an issue was barely on the radar screen of labour and business four or five years ago — is now ranked by both constituencies as one of their top ten concerns.
What is needed, as both constituencies point out, is leadership to make the skills and learning agenda a national priority, with a sense of urgency and a will to act that is shared by all stakeholders. Moreover, the active commitment of all orders of government is needed to deal with jurisdictional issues, and to facilitate collaboration with one another and with other stakeholders.
Added: 2007-05-23
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44. Measuring and Monitoring Literacy: What the data imply for policy in Alberta (2008)
A PowerPoint Presentation
Authors: T. Scott Murray
Collection: Research Materials
This resource is a powerpoint presentation of 76 slides by T. Scott Murray, Director, Learning Outcomes, of the UNESCO Institute of Statistics. In his presentation, Murray discusses the importance of skills and learning in terms of public policy, particularly in regards to the Province of Alberta. Through the use of charts and diagrams, he looks at the impact of skill at the individual level and in terms of the labour market, economic growth and productivity. He touches on health literacy, skill quality, skill flow, skill change and skill loss and how public policy can influence skill. He concludes his presentation by discussing more specifically what the data on skill imply for Alberta, pressures the province faces, and a possible policy response.
Added: 2008-09-10
45. Meeting the Challenge (2005)
A Guide to Working with Essential Skills
Series: Essential Skills
Authors: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
Collection: Research Materials
This resource highlights the importance of Essential Skills, those basic skills that we use every day to take part in activities of daily living and to do the tasks required in our job. This guide provides information on a number of programs, tools, best practices, applications, initiatives and pilot projects from across Canada that focus on Essential Skills. The guide begins by describing what is meant by the term "Essential Skills" and discusses why these skills are so important. The next section looks at the federal government's skills development commitment, specifically the Essential Skills and Workplace Literacy Initiative. The last and largest part of this guide, entitled "Essential Skills in Action," consists of scenarios that show how various organizations and groups across the country have already taken on the Essential Skills challenge. These scenarios, from industry, the learning system, provincial governments, the private sector and others, demonstrate the wide array of applications that Essential Skills have for daily life, for learning opportunities, and for meeting the changing needs of Canadian workplaces.
Added: 2008-09-30
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46. Nanny / Caregiver Demonstration - LBS Levels 2/3 (2005)
Series: Connecting to Workplaces
Authors: Karen Farrar
Collection: Learning Materials
The Nanny / Caregiver Demonstration - LBS Levels 2/3 booklet gives learners and instructors information on a career as a nanny or caregiver.
It includes essential core skills chart, exercises and answer keys, demonstration overview, practitioner instructions and other useful information.
This is one of ten booklets in a series entitled "Connecting to Workplaces". The other careers in the series include:
1- Security Officer LBS Levels 2/3
2- Taxi Driver Demonstration LBS Level 3
3- Hunting/Fishing or Recreation Guide Demonstration LBS Levels 2/3
4- Laundromat Operator Demonstration LBS Level 4
5- Chambermaid/Housekeeping Cleaner Demonstration LBS Level 3
6- Florist Assistant Demonstration LBS Level 3
7- Cashier Demonstration LBS Level 3
8- Forestry Worker Demonstration LBS Level 3
9- Pet Groomer Demonstration - LBS Levels 3/4
Added: 2006-03-10
47. Nova Scotia TriPartite Forum Proceedings - July 2005 (2005)
Authors: Canadian Labour and Business Centre
Collection: Research Materials
On July 5, 2005, the Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Labour convened a Tripartite Forum on labour/management relations in the province. The Canadian Labour and Business Centre was asked to help to organize and facilitate the Forum.
The objective of the Forum was to bring together senior representatives of employers, labour and government to discuss the role which labour/management relationships can play, both through collective bargaining and through other means, in contributing to strong growth in the provincial economy.
The document includes: the agenda, the opening remarks, keynote address, summary of the roundtable discussions, luncheon address and concluding remarks.
Added: 2007-05-09
48. Numeracy (2001)
Series: Best Practice and Innovations
Authors: Lisa Hagedorn
Collection: Research Materials
The goal of this series is to provide important information on three topics of high priority to the literacy community and to highlight new, innovative, and successful practice relevant to LBS-funded agencies across Ontario.
Added: 2003-05-29
49. Practitioner Guide to Workbooks 1 and 2 (2004)
Series: Skills at Work series
Authors: Trudy Kennell
Collection: Learning Materials
This practitioner guide is for instructors and tutors who are working with adults using the Skills at Work workforce literacy materials. Skills at Work explores common entry - level jobs and the ways literacy skills are applied generally at work. Its target audience is adults in Literacy and Basic Skills programs whose goals include employment. This guide introduces practitioners to the Skills at Work materials and blended learning as well as the following two workbooks: Workbook I - Assess your skills; and Workbook 2 - A day on the job.
Added: 2008-10-23
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50. Reading for Working (1975)
A Functional Literacy Anthology
Authors: Thomas G. Sticht
Collection: Research Materials
A compilation of research on job-related literacy conducted by the Human Resources Research Organization.
Added: 2006-05-03
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