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1. Maintenance and Repairs (2009)
Canadian Language Benchmark 1/2
Series: ESL Activity Kit for Newcomers to Ontario
Authors: Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO)
Collection: Learning Materials
This document is housed on the Community Legal Education of Ontario (CLEO) server.
This English as a Second Language (ESL) activity kit is aimed at newcomers to Ontario. Students are expected to learn that landlords have maintenance and repair responsibilities, and learn how to get help if there are problems.
Language outcomes include getting information from very basic texts; requesting assistance; and describing a situation by completing a short guided text.
Funders:
- The Law Foundation of Ontario
Added: 2010-10-07
2. Maintenance and Repairs (2009)
Canadian Language Benchmark 4/5
Series: ESL Activity Kit for Newcomers to Ontario
Authors: Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO)
Collection: Learning Materials
This document is housed on the Community Legal Education of Ontario (CLEO) server.
This English as a Second Language (ESL) activity kit is aimed at newcomers to Ontario. Students are expected to learn what a landlord’s responsibilities are with respect to maintenance and repairs and to understand the steps required to get problems addressed.
Language outcomes include getting the gist, key information and important details from the accompanying booklet; and conveying a simple message about a problem in the form of a written note.
Funders:
- The Law Foundation of Ontario
Added: 2010-10-07
3. Mairi St. John Macdonald and Joan Brown Hicks: A Conversation (1989)
Women's Education des femmes, 1979-1989 - Vol. 7, No. 2
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Christina Starr
Collection: Research Materials
Mairi St. John Macdonald was the first national president of CCLOW, from 1979-1982. Joan Brown Hicks was CCLOW's president from 1985-1986.
This article features conversations among the author and these former presidents of CCLOW.
Added: 2004-07-30
4. Make the most of your credit score (2009)
Series: Self-help booklets for managing your personal finances
Authors: Consolidated Credit Counseling Services of Canada, Inc.
Collection: Learning Materials
This self-help guide, prepared by Consolidated Credit Counseling Services of Canada, focuses on credit scores.
The authors explain that a credit score is a formula that lenders use to predict risk when issuing loans, setting a credit limit on an existing account or deciding what interest rate to charge on an account.
They also explain how negative information will affect a credit score, and for how long; how to obtain your credit score; and how much a poor credit score will cost in terms of increased interest rates.
Added: 2011-04-12
5. 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
6. Make Nutrition Come Alive - It's All About You (1998)
Series: CONNECT: Canada's Resource Publication on Technology & Adult Literacy
Authors: Diane McCargar
Collection: Learning Materials
This website review from CONNECT features Make Nutrition Come Alive, by Dietitians of Canada. This website provides learners and instructors with information about nutrition, health and food.
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Added: 2003-07-21
7. 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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8. Making the Business Case for Integration among Employment Ontario Program and Services (2009)
Academic Upgrading, Job Connect, Apprenticeship, and Employment Assistance Services
Authors: Sue Folinsbee, College Sector Committee for Adult Upgrading (CSC)
Collection: Research Materials
This report outlines the work of the College Sector Committee (CSC) with seven colleges across Ontario to document the business case for partnership efforts among academic upgrading, apprenticeship, job connect, and employment assistance services. The CSC assists the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities and leads the Ontario College System in promoting the continuous improvement of the delivery of upgrading programs to meet the needs of adult learners.
Participating colleges were Conestoga College, George Brown College, Georgian College, Midland Campus, Lambton College, Niagara College, Northern College, and St. Lawrence College.
The report includes seven detailed case studies and an overall report that includes an analysis of the findings across the cases, as well as two-page summaries of the findings for each college.
The findings show that there is a strong business case for partnership work. Results show greater student success and retention, and an increase in the numbers of non-traditional students. However, the author cautions that more quantitative data needs to be collected in this subject area.
Added: 2010-03-02
9. Making a Case for Literacy (2000)
The State of Adult Literacy and Adult Basic Education in the NWT - A Summary of Research
Authors: Lutra Associates Ltd.
Collection: Research Materials
The NWT Literacy Council wanted to find out about adult literacy and adult basic education in the NWT. In order to do the research they asked a few questions. Here's an example of a few questions :
What is literacy in today's world?
How do NWT adults get help to improve their literacy?
What can we do to influence the future of adult literacy and adult basic education in the NWT?
In other sections of the report, the researchers looked at who is responsible for adult literacy and adult basic education in the Northwest Territories, for example. As well, they gave recommendations such as: Develop and implement a policy for literacy and adult basic education.
For this research, the use of other reports and interviews was very helpful. For more information : NWT Literacy Council, http://www.nwt.literacy.ca/.
Added: 2002-04-17
10. Making the Connection (2009)
Six information sheets for adult literacy practitioners on learning and violence
Authors: Jenny Horsman
Collection: Research Materials
This is a set of six information sheets, designed for adult literacy practitioners, on learning and violence. In general terms, all six sheets deal with the prevalence of violence and how its effects on individuals may be manifested in a classroom.
Each sheet begins with a sample journal entry by a teacher, describing a situation or the behaviour of one or more individuals in the classroom. Using that journal entry as a starting point, the author discusses possible causes for the behaviour and suggests ways to help everyone learn.
Added: 2012-04-23
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