National Adult Literacy Database

Report and Resource Guide

Authors: The Western Canada Workplace Essential Skills Training Network

Hosted by WWestnet, the Integrating Essential Skills into Training Materials workshop held in Yellowknife, NW in May 2006, combined hands-on sessions with presentations and networking opportunities. Over the course of the two days, delegates learned techniques for integrating essential skills into training, worked through a wealth of activity examples, learned about resources that can be accessed to assist with essential skills training, heard a presentation on the Ready to Work North program that is now available for delivery, were updated on the training situation for the Mackenzie Gas Project, and heard about an innovative new program being piloted in a remote community in British Columbia.

The goals of the event were to increase the understanding of the role of essential skills in improving training outcomes and to increase the confidence of participants so that they could proceed with integrating essential skills into training materials and incorporating essential skills into delivery strategies.

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• OLES

Added: 2006-09-26

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Evaluation Report

The Peterborough Native Learning Program, an adult literacy community-based program in Ontario, works with individuals who have their sights and hearts set on getting decent, meaningful jobs, providing training so that they are ready to write the grade 12 equivalency test or the last level of upgrading at the local college. In 2007, the program received funding to develop a training series and materials called "Supporting Smoother Transitions" at three stages of life: Elementary School to High School, High School to Post-Secondary, and Adult Literacy to Employment.

In this report, project organizers evaluate the training sessions and the program they developed. Their report is divided into the following sections:

- Executive summary
- Significant issues that arose
- Findings
- Conclusions
- Participant notes

Added: 2008-07-25

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