June 2008
Bulletin #4

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Community Literacy of Ontario

Essentially Yours:

Training in the Essential Skills

The Essential Skills Website

Taking a Look Through the Literacy Lens

To date, CLO's Essentially Yours: Training in the Essential Skills project has produced two online training sessions on Centra, three bulletins (www.nald.ca/litweb/province/on/clo/newslet.htm), and a self-study module on CLO's Literacy Basics website (www.nald.ca/literacybasics/essentl/intro/01.htm).

We have designed this fourth and final project bulletin to be your personal “tour guide” for exploring the Essential Skills website. The excellent response to a guided introductory tour of the Essential Skills website during the Centra training sessions highlighted a need for more comprehensive information about the Essential Skills website. We will introduce you to useful links, effective tools and resources, important supplementary resources, and ideas to help make Essential Skills (ES) easier to understand and use. CLO will provide additional information—and hopefully inspiration. Set aside a block of time, fire up your computer and use this bulletin to discover what the ES website has to offer. To help keep you on track, we have italicized and/or bolded key links, and we have associated consecutive links with their pages of origin. When you are ready… let the tour begin!

An important part of the Essential Skills website is the Essential Skills Profiles link. The ES profiles were developed using NOC codes, and practitioners who know their codes can use them to effectively search the profiles for occupational information and other Essential Skills materials. Therefore, we decided to include a section about the NOC in this bulletin —about deciphering the codes and exploring the NOC website—to help practitioners forge an even greater understanding of Essentials Skills.