Links to your success
Bringing it all together
Below you can find links to other resources that will aid you in your search for the proper standards to follow when considering Workplace Education. We believe that only through partnerships and understanding can workplace education be a success. Help education grow, start with you today! (Links open in new window)
Speech by Earl Leslie on Workplace Education (video) with kudos for Margan Dawson, our Executive Director!
The Centre for Education and Work - Connecting the Workforce to Learning.
Recently released report by the Expert Panel on Older Workers.
Reaching for the Tipping Point in Literacy - Summary of a joint knowledge exchange event held February 4-5, 2008 by the Work and Learning Knowledge Centre (WLKC) and the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre (AdLKC). Also available in French.
EMPLOYABILITY
IN CANADA: PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE
Report of the House of Commons Standing
Committee on Human Resources, Social Development and the Status of Persons
with Disabilities
Online Resource: The Canadian Literacy Thesaurus
Developed in consultation
with the Canadian literacy community, both the terminology and structure
of the Thesaurus reflect the diversity of regional literacy practices
and activities across Canada. The Thesaurus can be used to index documents,
whether they are print, audiovisual, or electronic. It can also be
used to organize reading lists and bibliographies. People can consult
the Thesaurus when searching in existing databases such as library
catalogues. Finally, the Thesaurus will be helpful to people who wish
to familiarize themselves with terminology or emerging concepts in
the Canadian literacy field.
Labour Market News, Nova Scotia (HRDC)
Labour Market Information (Service Canada)
Conference Board of Canada's website has a series of case studies relating to best practices in Workplace Education programs, including several in Nova Scotia companies. They are available from the Case Studies page on the Conference Board's website.
Also see: Workplace Literacy Best Practices Reader published by the Conference Board, with the 1998 Awards of Excellence in Workplace Literacy (PDF)
NALD@Work
(NALD = National Adult Literacy Database) - an online repository
containing program models, teaching and learning materials, assessment
tools, research documents and much more.
Nova Scotia Partners for Workplace Education - AWENS is an active player
in
this provincial initiative.
Click here to view
a PowerPoint presentation about how NS Partners for Workplace Education
works.
National Occupation Classification
The Test of Workplace Essential Skills (TOWES)
Applications of Working and Learning (AWAL)
Numeracy at Work and Writing at Work
Work and Learning Knowledge Centre, part of the Canadian Council on Learning
Learning to Learn - a training program aimed at teaching adults with little schooling the methods necessary to learn
Partnerships in Learning's report on a study of The Interplay between Formal and Informal Learning for Low Skilled Workers
