National Adult Literacy Database

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.