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11. Chance and Luck: Making a Job (1998)
Volume 4
Series: Working Lives
Authors: Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador
This is the fourth in the series, Working Lives, four volumes designed to provide relevant and engaging literacy materials that speak directly to the concerns and interests of adult learners. All essays in each volume are accompanied by questions for discussion and, where necessary, word lists and follow-up notes and activities.
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Added: 2005-06-13
12. Computers for Deaf Learners (2007)
Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba
The experience of the deaf in a hearing-majority workplace is filled with frustration, secondhand information and the annoyance of always being "the last to know." In 2007, Workplace Education Manitoba published the curriculum developed through a workplace essential skills project conducted at partner Boeing Canada Technology Ltd. in Winnipeg. Using computer training coursework as the essential skills delivery vehicle, materials were specifically designed to help level the playing field and to make equality more of a reality for deaf workers.
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Added: 2009-05-22
13. Conversations With Parents (2004)
A Practitioner's Guide to Family Literacy Sessions With Parents of Infants, Toddlers and PreSchoolers
Authors: Lynda Homer, Anne Hunt, Jan Greer Langley, Pamela Nuttall Nason, Sherry Rose, Pam Whitty
This is a guide for community-based practitioners who want to deliver literacy workshops to parents of infants, toddlers and preschoolers. The authors encourage practitioners to tailor their workshops to meet the needs and interests of their particular group.
The authors have included information on planning a workshop, tips for leading a session, and suggestions for accessing resources in the community.
The guide is divided into sections with specific ideas for various age groups. The authors have also included many suggestions for reading material.
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Added: 2010-11-05
14. Creating Learning Partners (2007)
A facilitator's guide for training effective adult literacy tutors
Series: A Facilitator's guide for training
Authors: Rebecca Still, Linda Weir, Ann Goldblatt
This training guide is intended for literacy coordinators and others who train adult literacy tutors.
It is divided into 12 units dealing with such topics as learning styles; characteristics of adult learners; planning for learning; and learning disabilities.
As well, two units focus specifically on English as a Second Language (ESL) tutoring.
Each unit contains both core and optional activities, along with an estimate of the time each will require and suggestions for modifying the activities.
The authors note that the guide has been designed to be flexible and can be used for introductory training or for more advanced in-service workshops. It can also be used in a group setting or for training a single tutor.
Added: 2008-09-04
15. Creating Learning Partners (2007)
OVERHEADS for the facilitator's guide for training
Series: A Facilitator's guide for training
Authors: Rebecca Still, Linda Weir, Ann Goldblatt
This resource consists of a series of overheads intended to be used with tutor training guide Creative Partners: A Facilitator's Guide to Training Effective Adult Literacy Tutors. The overheads are related to specific topics covered in the guide.
Added: 2008-09-04
16. Creating Learning Partners (2007)
HANDOUTS for the facilitator's guide for training
Series: A Facilitator's guide for training
Authors: Rebecca Still, Linda Weir, Ann Goldblatt
This resource consists of handouts for adult literacy tutors-in-training. It is intended to be used in conjunction with the Creative Learning Partners:Facilitator's Guide for Training Effective Adult Literacy Tutors. It includes handouts for the 12 units listed in the training guide.
Added: 2008-09-04
17. Decimals, Fractions & Percent Part 1 - Concept [Video - 6:54] (2011)
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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials
Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)
This brief video offers a refresher course on the relationship between decimals, fractions and percent.
The instructor explains how to convert a decimal to a fraction or a percent. He takes the learner through several examples, including one requiring long division.
Added: 2012-05-25
18. Decimals, Fractions & Percent Part 1 - Practice [Video - 7:30] (2011)
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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials
Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)
This video offers an opportunity to practise calculations involving decimals, fractions and percentages.
It presents three problems, beginning with a simple one and progressing to more complex ones. For the second and third problems, the learner must also apply the order of operations.
The problems appear on a computer screen, with the narrator giving step-by-step instructions on how to solve them.
Added: 2012-05-25
19. Decimals, Fractions & Percent Part 2 - Concept [Video – 8:05] (2011)
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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials
Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)
In this video tutorial, the instructor discusses decimals, fractions and percent specifically in terms of measurement and basic conversions from one format to another.
Using an Imperial ruler, he points out the markings for quarters, eighths and sixteenths of an inch. Then he explains, step by step, how to convert those fractions into decimals and percentages.
Added: 2012-06-06
20. Decimals, Fractions & Percent Part 2 - Practice [Video – 6:29] (2011)
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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials
Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)
This video gives learners the chance to become more familiar with decimals, fractions and percent as they relate to the eighths and sixteenths fraction families.
It includes three problems of increasing complexity. Learners are asked to pause the video while they work out the problems on their own, then restart it to see the instructor’s detailed solutions.
The instructor also offers some shortcuts to speed up common calculations. For example, based on earlier instruction, learners already know that one-eighth is equal to 0.125 or 12.5 percent. Therefore, if they need to convert three-eighths into another format, they can simply multiply 0.125 or 12.5 percent by three.
Added: 2012-06-06
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