National Adult Literacy Database

Series: Adult Learning Video Series

Authors: Adult Learning Knowledge Centre (AdLKC)

This video, about four minutes in length, is part of a series prepared by the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre of the Canadian Council on Learning.

The video focuses on a fishing village in the Magdalen Islands area of Quebec. Several fishers talk about the growing need for vocational training and upgrading in the fishing industry as equipment becomes more sophisticated and regulations more complicated.

The video also features a teacher talking about ways to help dropouts continue their high school education and continue on in a vocational program leading to a diploma in fishing.

The video is in French, with English subtitles.

Added: 2011-04-20

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• L'éducation des adultes dans le secteur de la pêche [Vidéo - 3:48]

Series: Adult Learning Video Series

Authors: Adult Learning Knowledge Centre (AdLKC)

This video, about three and a half minutes in length, focuses on a program that combines writing with reading to help both parents and young children advance their literacy skills.

The “Picture It, Publish It, Read It” program was developed by professors at Mount Saint Vincent University in Nova Scotia and was piloted with a parents’ group in Yarmouth, in the southwest region of that province.

The program builds on the parents’ existing knowledge of the importance of reading to their children by showing how writing fits into overall literacy. Children in the program were given cameras to take photos in their neighbourhood, then used the pictures they had taken to make books about their interests.

The program helps parents gain confidence in their ability to support their children’s learning as they begin school.

The video was prepared by the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre (AdLKC).

Added: 2011-05-27

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• L'alphabétisation des adultes par le biais d'ateliers familiaux [Vidéo - 3:27]

Series: Adult Learning Video Series

Authors: Adult Learning Knowledge Centre (AdLKC)

This brief video focuses on Canada-wide efforts to ensure the quality of Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) in the university setting.

The video includes interviews with some of the people involved in bringing together university representatives to discuss their concerns about PLAR and how to make sure that it is an academically reliable, rigorous process.

The video also includes an interview with a woman who explains how the credits she earned through PLAR helped her finish her university degree when she was tempted to quit.

The video, about three and a half minutes in length, was prepared by the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre (AdLKC).

Added: 2011-06-03

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• Les bienfaits de l'ERA dans les universités canadiennes [Vidéo - 3:24]

Learn why Essential Skills are important when working with others

Series: Essential Skills Videos - HRSDC

Authors: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)

This animated video provides an introduction to the nine Essential Skills (ES), explaining that they are foundational skills that are the key to acquiring and applying all other skills required on the job.

The video also includes an example of how a foreman on a construction site uses the lens of ES to understand a problem he is facing on the job, find a solution, and apply it.

This video, about two and a half minutes long, has both an English soundtrack and English subtitles.

Added: 2011-06-24

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• Compétences essentielles d'une équipe gagnante [Vidéo - 2:37]

Learn how Essential Skills can help you better meet workplace goals

Series: Essential Skills Videos - HRSDC

Authors: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)

This video, about two minutes in length, offers an introduction to the nine essential skills, with particular emphasis on reading, document use, and working with others.

The video uses the example of the operations manager at a large technology firm who has been told to increase productivity. He uses an essential skills perspective to analyse a possible solution to a production problem, then brings in an essential skills instructor to help workers develop the skills they will need to implement the new process.

The video is in English, with subtitles also in English for people who are hearing impaired.

Added: 2011-06-30

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• Compétences essentielles pour la gestion du changement [Vidéo - 2:06]

Learn how Essential Skills can help you adapt and succeed at work

Series: Essential Skills Videos - HRSDC

Authors: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)

This animated video, about two and a half minutes long, shows how a workplace problem can be solved by viewing it from the perspective of Essential Skills.

The video focuses on an employee who has recently been promoted to a supervisory job and is now having problems completing online reports. A human resources manager, using an Essential Skills framework, realizes that the employee’s problem stems from weak basic computer skills and arranges targeted training to help him overcome that problem.

The video is in English, with subtitles for people with hearing impairments.

Added: 2011-07-05

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• Compétences essentielles pour l’avancement [Vidéo - 2:23]

Authors: Tri-County Literacy Network (TCLN), TVCOGECO Chatham

This 10-minute video focuses on the experiences of two people who took part in adult upgrading programs offered throughout the Chatham-Kent, Sarnia-Lambton and Windsor-Essex regions of Ontario.

One participant describes spending his early years in a variety of foster homes, with little opportunity to get a solid basic education. Through the upgrading program, he filled the gaps in his education and continued on to college, where he is learning a trade.

The other subject explains that she left school after getting pregnant at the age of 17. After completing educational upgrading, she got a job as a cashier in a store and quickly progressed to becoming a supervisor and, eventually, assistant manager.

The video includes information on how to find upgrading programs and register for them.

Added: 2011-07-08

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Authors: Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police

This video focuses on an initiative of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP), aimed at making police aware of how low literacy may affect the people they deal with.

The video features a number of people involved in the project, including police officers, corrections officials, specialists in clear communication, and literacy workers. They explain that low literacy can interfere with access to justice for complainants, witnesses and suspects, all of whom may have trouble understanding the complex material they are faced with.

CACP has produced fact sheets, a resource manual and a workshop curriculum for the project.

Added: 2011-06-28

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• Alphabétisation et services policiers : L'alphabétisation contre le crime [Vidéo - 5:43]

Authors: The Labour Market Group

This video focuses on the benefits to businesses of encouraging employees to improve their literacy and essential skills.

The producers of the video point out that improved skills lead to better employee performance; improved safety records; greater customer satisfaction; and higher employee retention rates. All of these factors help businesses strengthen their competitive edge.

The video, about four minutes in length, was produced by The Labour Market Group, an Ontario not-for-profit organization that promotes the development of a skilled and competitive workforce.

Added: 2011-08-05

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Authors: The Labour Market Group

This six-minute video offers an introduction to Ontario’s network of 25 local boards, funded by the province’s Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. The local boards work with community partners to address workforce development issues.

The boards use a “trends, opportunities and priorities” process to compile annual reports on projected employment needs in their communities. The boards work together to develop long-term integrated labour plans.

Added: 2011-08-16

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