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NALD's Feature of the Month: A Timeline of Literacy and Essential Skills from Essential Skills Ontario
Headline News | Posted: May 1, 2013 | 
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
“Throughout its long history, the literacy and essential skills field has continually evolved and adapted in response to the changing needs of adults. This timeline captures some of the important people, events, initiatives and other influences that have helped shape the literacy and essential skills field in Canada over the past 200 years.” -- Essential Skills Ontario
ESI: Essential Skills Investigation – Episode 2 [Video – 16:07] by Bear Image Productions (2007)
Library | Posted: May 9, 2013
This video is one in a series designed to promote understanding of the role Essential Skills play in learning, work, and life.
Fact Sheet: Youth Literacy Skills by Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) (2010)
Library | Posted: May 9, 2013
This assessment of the literacy skills of 15-year-old Canadians is part of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) conducted every three years by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The International LitCam Conference 2013, Literacy and Gender (October 07, 2013 - October 08, 2013)
Event | Posted: May 8, 2013
This year the International LitCam Conference, Literacy and Gender“ will take place on 7th and 8th of October 2013 in Frankfurt. Cooperation partners will be, amongst others, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning.
Calgary Learns : Join the Conversation (June 06, 2013)
Event | Posted: May 8, 2013
Calgary Learns invites you to Join the Conversation event on Thursday, June 6, 2013.
Good news: Canada’s high-school dropout rates are falling - Lessons in Learning – December 16, 2005 by Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) (2006)
Library | Posted: May 8, 2013
While much progress has been made across Canada in reducing the high-school dropout rate, the progress is much slower among certain groups, including Aboriginal students, those in rural areas, and young men. The authors of this article examine what is known about factors affecting high-school completion, and look at ways to encourage all students to complete high school.
Getting Started: Tools and Resources [Video – 19:08] by Canadian Apprenticeship Forum (CAF) (2011)
Library | Posted: May 8, 2013
This is the final webinar in a four-part series developed by the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum (CAF) as a guide for implementing Essential Skills (ES) training programs in the workplace.
A call to action: ACCC's National Leaders' Summit looks at ways to close essential skills gaps in Canada
Headline News | Posted: May 7, 2013 |
Category: Essential skills
The following strategic orientations emerged at the summit as key to helping Canada regain its leading edge in a competitive economy: addressing development of literacy and essential skills as a national priority; raising the quality of practice; and integrating ES assessment and upskilling in college technical programs.
National Survey of Literacy and Essential Skills Workforce extended to May 17
Headline News | Posted: May 7, 2013 |
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
If you are involved in the provision of Literacy and Essential Skills programs and services, exclusively or as part of other services you deliver, to adults, as a paid teacher/instructor, skills assessor, program/curriculum developer, administrator, coordinator or manager, this survey is for you.
Be a role model for children and teach financial literacy, independence
Headline News | Posted: May 7, 2013 |
Category: Essential skills
Many parents feel the need to give financial support to their grown children well into adulthood, from welcoming them back home after graduation day to helping them pay off their credit card. In fact, one-in-five Boomers (19%) admit they would consider putting their own security and financial future at risk to help support their adult children.
Saving for Independent Living: Belinda Swaby, participant of SEDI’s Independent Living Accounts program [Video - 2:44] by Social and Enterprise Development Innovations (SEDI) (2010)
Library | Posted: May 7, 2013
Social and Enterprise Development Innovations (SEDI) is a Canadian nonprofit organization, founded in 1986, that helps low-income earners gain financial independence through financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and asset building.
Top 20 PDF Downloads for April 2013
Headline News | Posted: May 7, 2013 |
Categories: Essential skills, Labour market, Learning
Each month NALD releases Library user statistics in a feature known as the Top 20 downloads/20 Plus téléchargés. The report examines the number of NALD Library documents, in both English and French, which are viewed and downloaded by visitors to the websites NALD and BDAA.
Numeracy Research: Recommendations - Numeracy concepts - Interview with Katherine Clarke-Nolan, Policy analyst, OLES [Audio – 1:42] by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) (2011)
Library | Posted: May 7, 2013
This podcast is the fifth in a series of eight prepared by the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills (OLES) in Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC). The series outlines the research on numeracy that is part of the Essential Skills Research Project, undertaken to improve the current measurement framework for those skills.
Counsellors for Frontier College's summer literacy camps have experience of a lifetime
Headline News | Posted: May 6, 2013 |
Category: Essential skills
The Summer Aboriginal Literacy Camps are day camps that are run by Frontier College in Aboriginal communities across the country. The impetus for the camps, now in their seventh year, is to provide activities that are fun yet educational for Aboriginal children, ensuring that their reading levels remain the same or improve during the summer months.
Families and Literacy by Literacy Newfoundland and Labrador (2012)
Library | Posted: May 6, 2013
This fact sheet focuses on the role of parents in helping children develop literacy skills.
Giving Safety Talks: A guide for the construction sector – Participant Workbook by Alberta Workforce Essential Skills Society (AWES) (2012)
Library | Posted: May 6, 2013
This document is part of a set of resources designed for staff members who deliver safety training to workers whose first language is not English. This workbook and the accompanying facilitator’s guide can be used to deliver either one or two three-hour train-the-trainer workshops.
Literacy Newfoundland and Labrador's Annual General Meeting (June 01, 2013)
Event | Posted: May 3, 2013
Literacy Newfoundland and Labrador is inviting its members to itsr Annual General Meeting, Saturday, June 1, 2013.
The Situation of Official-Language Minorities in the Labour Market by Jean-François Lepage (2012)
Library | Posted: May 3, 2013
This Statistics Canada analysis is based on information from the Labour Force Survey carried out in March 2012, which for the first time included questions designed to identify language characteristics of workers.
Yukon Literacy Coalition 2010-2011 Annual Report by Yukon Literacy Coalition (2011)
Library | Posted: May 3, 2013
This annual report offers an update on the work of the Yukon Literacy Coalition (YLC), an organization committed to supporting and encouraging literacy in all the languages of the Yukon.
Atlantic area premiers join forces to boost economy, improve jobs front
Headline News | Posted: May 2, 2013 |
Category: Essential skills
The four Atlantic premiers have agreed, through the Atlantic Workforce Partnership, to harmonize apprenticeship programs across the region and deliver online training to small and medium-sized businesses. This will make the region a national leader in the delivery of critical skills training.
The future of work: Paper resumés headed for extinction
Headline News | Posted: May 2, 2013 |
Category: Essential skills
Future job seekers will increasingly have to let their digital deeds speak for them, says Jaigris Hodson, an instructor for Ryerson’s digital literacy program. “In fact, some high-tech firms may discount you for a job if you send them a resumé on paper,” she says.
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