Your students might want to check out this site:

http://www.skillplan.ca/English/measureup.htm

How do your skills Measure Up? is an exciting online resource that links
essential skills to real Canadian workplaces. This web-based practice and
self-assessment provides more than 100 activity sets based on workplace
documents. Each task has been placed on the scale used by Human Resources
and Skills Development Canada's Essential Skills Profiles. The activity sets
on How do your skills Measure Up? are consistent with the problem sets in
the Tests of Workplace Essential Skills (TOWES).

Practice typical workplace tasks or assess skill levels in three essential
skills:

Reading Text 
Document Use 
Numeracy 
Select the activity sets by occupation (for example, Shipper/Receiver), by
type of document (for example, an entry form), or by skill and level (based
on the Essential Skills Profiles and IALS).

Download and print each activity set for practice or self-assessment in a
classroom, at an employment centre, at work, or at home -- there is no fee
for use. 

Use the links to the NOC and the Essential Skills Profiles to explore job
options, make realistic career choices and identify upgrading needs.


Warm regards,

Nancy Watters, M.A.
Researcher--Workplace Literacy Project

Victoria READ Society
www.readsociety.bc.ca

201-3440 Douglas Street
Victoria, BC, Canada V8Z 3L5
Cell: 250-896-2143
Ph:   250-388-7225
Fax: 250-386-8330



-----Original Message-----
From: Nancy Watters [mailto:nwatters at readsociety.bc.ca] 
Sent: April 22, 2008 9:14 AM
To: 'workplace at nifl.gov'
Subject: Evidence that literacy skills are important for trades

Check out the Essential Skills Website, which is based on extensive research
by the Canadian government
http://srv108.services.gc.ca/english/general/home_e.shtml  They have
identified 9 Essential Skills for workplace success, including reading text,
document use, numberacy, writing, oral communication, working with others,
thinking skills, computer use and continuous learning. You can use this site
to search approximately 250 job profiles that describe what level of each of
those Essential Skills are needed for a particular job. 


Subject: [Workplace 1270] Re: workplace literacy and high school
	students
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Gary, 
That is a good idea, except those things are kind of like a foreign language
to me!  Many of these kids go to vocational classes in the afternoon, so
maybe I could have them ask their teachers in their specific fields for
suggestions.  
This sounds like a great motivator, because they will see for themselves
just how important reading skills are.  Also, the kids' chosen career fields
are so diverse, I will inevitably learning some new things.
Thanks for the idea,
Maggie

Maggie Moran
Moram87 at oneonta.edu
Oneonta, NY


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From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Gary Bartolina
Sent: Mon 4/21/2008 9:55 AM
To: The Workplace Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [Workplace 1270] Re: workplace literacy and high school students
 
Maggie,

 

The best you can do; show them manuals that are specific to their field,
i.e. electrical manual, carpentry manual, mechanic etc.  I don't know
what your thoughts are about this, but when I read one of those "new
technical manuals"...I feel like I need a graduate degree in that field.

 

 

Ms. Gary Bartolina, Program Manager
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Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 2:07 PM
To: workplace at nifl.gov
Subject: [Workplace 1263] Re: workplace literacy and high school
students

 

I have been working with 12th graders, most of whom are not planning to
go to college.  We do a big unit on workplace literacy.  Many of them
believe that they will not need literacy skills for their chosen
careers, especially the ones who plan to go into manual labor.  In the
area where I teach, the economy is very depressed, having been the
victim of major outsourcing about 10 years ago.  I would love to find
ideas about how to convince them that literacy skills are important for
any job, and that perhaps they might like to change careers somewhere
down the road and need a different skill set.  I have used the Bureau of
Labor website to teach them about the job market (they have some great
slideshows), and we have used the Internet to research different careers
and the skills needed for them.  If anyone has any ideas on how to
engage high school students in workplace literacy, I would love to hear
them.

Thank you,

Maggie Moran

Maggie Moran
Moram87 at oneonta.edu
SUNY Oneonta
Oneonta, NY 


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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:01:15 +1000
From: Barbara Jacala <barbara.jacala at guamcc.edu>
Subject: [Workplace 1271]  Working with One-Stop
To: workplace at nifl.gov
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In response to Donna's request for examples of OneStop experience: On Guam
we have a small population (about 160,000) and almost everyone knows
everyone else. The agencies tend to work with each other even on an informal
way. Recently, the local Department of Labor published a manual on workplace
literacy using information gathered from OneStop and from the ABE program at
the Guam Community College. The local DOL is putting together a training
team composed of retired senior citizens. This team will go to the community
centers in the different municipalities and hold the training there. They
will refer students who do not have a high school diploma to the college for
ABE courses and GED preparation. 
 
Barbara Jacala
Adult Education at
Guam Community College
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