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1. Report: Adult Learners, What Do You Think? (N.D.)
Series: Adult Learners, What Do You Think?
Authors: Movement for Canadian Literacy
Over 150 learners from 10 regions of Canada responded to questions posed by the Learners Advisory Network, Movement for Canadian Literacy (MCL). The information was compiled to reflect the learning experiences of those surveyed and to offer their advice.
Added: 2003-04-25
2. Aboriginal Literacy Fact Sheet (N.D.)
Authors: Saskatchewan Aboriginal Literacy Network Inc. (SALN), Saskatchewan Literacy Network (SLN)
The authors of this fact sheet note that according to the International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS), 63 per cent of urban Aboriginal people in Saskatchewan scored below Level 3, compared to 39 per cent of the non-Aboriginal population. Level 3 is considered the minimum needed to function effectively in modern society.
The authors provide a number of suggestions for improving literacy skills among Aboriginal people. They include using a learner-centred approach; using a community-based approach; incorporating a holistic approach; building awareness of Aboriginal success stories; and basing teaching methods on Aboriginal ways of learning.
Added: 2011-05-10
3. Catching Confidence and Learning Essential Skills: Presentation during The Centre for Literacy Summer Institute 2010 in Montreal, QC (N.D.)
Series: The Centre for Literacy Summer Institute
Authors: Janine Eldred
This discussion paper explores the idea of confidence as an indicator of success in learning, and introduces a tool designed to enable literacy practitioners to help adult learners record changes in their confidence during the process of learning.
The author, a researcher at the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) in the United Kingdom, points out that traditional tests used as a means of assessing success may not tell the full story for adult learners. When asked about how they measure success, both learners and teachers overwhelmingly point to gains in confidence.
The NIACE undertook a small study to try to understand more about the nature of confidence, its significance in learning situations, and how changes in confidence could be assessed so that learning gains could be recorded. Those findings led to the development of the Catching Confidence pack, which is intended to be used in conjunction with other ways of recognizing and recording learning in a wide number of settings and contexts.
The paper was presented during The Centre for Literacy Summer Institute 2010, held in Montreal, Quebec in June of that year. The centre supports best practices and informed policy development in literacy and essential skills by building links between research, policy, and practice.
Added: 2012-11-05
4. Volunteer Handbook (N.D.)
Literacy Tutors in a Correctional Centre
Authors: Darlene George
This Volunteer Handbook has been compiled to provide volunteers with information that will help them perform their duties as a Literacy Tutor or Computer Mentor in a Newfoundland Correctional Facility.
Volunteers are a necessary part of educational programs in prisons. Their friendship and skills will have a positive influence on inmates, to help offenders work toward their successful reintegration into the community. Volunteer tutors and mentors serve as facilitators, to help inmates make connections to literacy resources.
This manual includes useful information such as: "What to Consider before making a Commitment," "Volunteering in a Correctional Setting," and "Literacy Statistics."
Added: 1990-01-01
5. Program Guidelines for Literacy Volunteers in a Correctional Centre (N.D.)
Authors: Darlene George
This training package outlines policies, procedures and guidelines for volunteer program development, training and delivery in a correctional setting. It is intended to provide a common framework for trainers and volunteers, with a focus on literacy. It is comprised of a Training Manual, with appendices, and a Volunteer Handbook, to provide an addendum to training.
Added: 1990-01-01
6. Ways of Knowing in a Writing-Based Adult Literacy Program (N.D.)
Authors: Pat Dyer
Teachers and learners in a writing-based literacy program tend to have different opinions on what knowledge is and how it is acquired. This paper will help teachers to make better choices in working with their students, based on understanding these different ideas about the processes of knowing and learning.
Added: 2002-07-10
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