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1. CanadaWorks! (1998)
2nd Edition
Series: CanadaWorks
Authors: Judith Bond, Grace Nicholson
CanadaWorks! focuses on employability skills and knowledge that will help learners focus on experiences that come after getting a job. This is a classroom resource that can be integrated into curriculum that is already developed for learners based on an assessment of their workplace literacy needs.
Added: 2007-06-12
2. Communication Skills (2008)
QLWG Essential Life Skills - Unit 10
Series: QLWG Skills for Life Series
Authors: Vicki-Ann Huegli
Competency-based learning meets the needs of all learners. It is important to keep in mind, however, that all learners are different. In order to address the needs and interests of all learners, the units in this publication have been divided by Essential Life Skills and Individual Life Skills.
Essential Life Skills are important for everyone, while Individual Life Skills address the needs and interests of different learners. Once learners have completed the “Essential” units, they may choose a unit that is applicable to their interests and lifestyle.
Added: 2009-09-18
3. Guide to Workforce Literacy (2004)
Series: Skills at Work series
Authors: Karen Geraci
Guide to Workforce Literacy is a practical guide intended for literacy coordinators, instructors, assessors, and other program staff who work with learners with employment goals. This guide provides background information on workforce-focused literacy, ideas on program planning, and examples of what some workforce literacy agencies in Ontario have done to support learners towards their employment goals.
The guide is organized into three parts: Part 1, entitled "Elements of Workforce Literacy," looks at getting started with workforce literacy programming, assessment, training plan development, training, and follow-up, with an eye to how these areas might be addressed in a workforce-focused literacy program. Part II is an overview of the research conducted in this area, and Part III looks at workforce initiatives in the field.
Added: 2008-11-20
4. Language for Work: CLB and Essential Skills for Trainers (2009)
Series: Language for Work
Authors: Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks (CCLB)
This guidebook was developed by the Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks (CCLB) to help immigrants meet employment goals in the Canadian workplace by enhancing the understanding of Essential Skills (ES) for facilitators who work with immigrants. In addition, it is an excellent tool for a diverse range of individuals such as workplace trainers, teachers in educational institutions, members of labour unions, training consultants and counsellors in social service agencies, who may have little or no prior training in teaching English as a Second Language (ESL).
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5. Learning for our Lives (2000)
A Union Guide to Worker-Centred Literacy
Series: Learning in Solidarity
Authors: Canadian Labour Congress
This handbook has been developed by the Canadian Labour Congress as part of its action plan Learning in Solidarity: Sharing a Vision of Union Literacy. Unions intending to set up or strengthen a literacy program for their members will find this guide helpful. For those just getting started, this handbook will help them explore the issue of literacy from a labour perspective and guide them in the planning and implementation of their program. For those currently running a literacy program, this handbook can help them evaluate and strengthen their program. Unions who are not currently in a position to implement workplace literacy programs can use the handbook to develop policy and a strategy on literacy.
The handbook has been divided into the following four sections:
1) Why Get Involved
2) What a Union Approach Looks Like
3) How-to Guide
4) Getting More Information.
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Added: 2007-11-28
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6. My Health (2008)
QLWG Essential Life Skills - Unit 8
Series: QLWG Skills for Life Series
Authors: Vicki-Ann Huegli
Competency-based learning meets the needs of all learners. It is important to keep in mind, however, that all learners are different. In order to address the needs and interests of all learners, the units in this publication have been divided by Essential Life Skills and Individual Life Skills.
Essential Life Skills are important for everyone, while Individual Life Skills address the needs and interests of different learners. Once learners have completed the “Essential” units, they may choose a unit that is applicable to their interests and lifestyle.
Added: 2009-09-17
7. Practitioner Guide to Workbooks 1 and 2 (2004)
Series: Skills at Work series
Authors: Trudy Kennell
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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8. The Retirement Years (2008)
QLWG Individual Life Skills - Unit 30
Series: QLWG Skills for Life Series
Authors: Vicki-Ann Huegli
Competency-based learning meets the needs of all learners. It is important to keep in mind, however, that all learners are different. In order to address the needs and interests of all learners, the units in this publication have been divided by Essential Life Skills and Individual Life Skills.
Essential Life Skills are important for everyone, while Individual Life Skills address the needs and interests of different learners. Once learners have completed the “Essential” units, they may choose a unit that is applicable to their interests and lifestyle.
Added: 2009-09-30
9. Strategies for Numbers 1 (Understanding Numbers) (2008)
QLWG Essential Life Skills - Unit 15
Series: QLWG Skills for Life Series
Authors: Vicki-Ann Huegli
Competency-based learning meets the needs of all learners. It is important to keep in mind, however, that all learners are different. In order to address the needs and interests of all learners, the units in this publication have been divided by Essential Life Skills and Individual Life Skills.
Essential Life Skills are important for everyone, while Individual Life Skills address the needs and interests of different learners. Once learners have completed the “Essential” units, they may choose a unit that is applicable to their interests and lifestyle.
Added: 2009-09-23
10. Through the Looking Glass (1998)
Who am I? What Can I Do? What Do I Know? A workbook to use with CanadaWorks
Series: CanadaWorks
Authors: Judith Bond, Grace Nicholson
CanadaWorks! is a classroom resource (available in the NALD library) that focuses on employability skills and knowledge that will help learners focus on workplace experiences once they get a job.
Through the Looking Glass is an interactive workbook for learners that can be used with CanadaWorks! as a companion learning tool.
Added: 2007-07-05
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