Trainer's Corner

Training & Certification has been extremely busy these last few months bringing in all the changes to standards and working on revisions to the Literacy Trainer Handbook (LTH) that will reflect these changes. You will all be receiving a packet from the Development Office this fall containing all the new modules for the LTH, as well as inserts of other pages that reflect all the changes to the LTH.

Trainer Kit Order Forms are now available from the Development Office for any of you who would like to order a training kit, or portions of one. Each province's PTO has been given a complete kit to share with trainers in their province, but separate kits may be ordered for individuals who would like one of their own.

Our Trainer's Listserv is now up and running. For those of you who would like to join, but have not yet done so, it's not too late. Just contact Karen Ingalls at the Development Office and she'll see that your name is added to the list. So far we have over 30 members, and the numbers are growing weekly.

The LTH, the LWR Trainer Charts, and the LWR and LWE Workshop Handbooks have been removed from the LLC order form. These items must now be ordered through the Development Office to insure that only LLC trainers can have access to them. Also, copies of the Peer Youth Supplementary Training Manual and the Creating a Learning Culture in the Home Manual are now available for purchase. Contact the Development Office for more information.

Congratulations go out to the following newly Certified Trainers-Literacy:

Andrea Haines NS Heidi Schulz ON
Jean-Pierre Amiel QC Darcy Allen BC
Hazel Sabourin QC Jane Fitschen BC

Supervising Trainer-ESL:
Diane Hunt
NB

Happy Training!
Diane Hunt, Chairperson - Training & Certification
65 Nevers Rd., Lincoln, NB E3B 8R7 dianehu@nbnet.nb.ca

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Congratulations to the LLC tutors below who have achieved the Laubach tutor status of Master Tutor for tutoring 300 hours plus completing 20 additional hours of literacy or tutor-related training. Thank you for your dedication to literacy.

Isabella Barry Humber Literacy Council NF
Jean Daniels Humber Literacy Council NF
Joseph Drysdale North Bay Literacy Council ON
Cathy Falconer Kamloops Literacy Council BC
Michelle Gibbons Humber Literacy Council NF
Linda Harris North Bay Literacy Council ON
Ann Heft Literacy Council of South Simcoe ON
Valerie Leveille Hamilton & District Literacy Council ON
Harold Madsen North Bay Literacy Council ON
Janis Moore Hamilton & District Literacy Council ON
Ed Oldford Gander & Area Literacy Council NF
Kathryn Potgieter Literacy Council of York Simcoe ON
Peter Rideout North Bay Literacy Council ON
Philip Sargent Hamilton & District Literacy Council ON
Vera Sheppard Humber Literacy Council NF
Kay Shields North Bay Literacy Council ON
Linda Stonehouse Humber Literacy Council NF
Darlene Veltri Literacy Council of South Simcoe ON
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Equal Ability Program - Literacy at Work

The Equal Ability Literacy Program provides small group and one-on-one literacy training to adults with physical disabilities. Our first tutor training workshop was held in January 2000.

Back: Anne Marie Demers / Front, l to r: Grant Bristlow, Tom Harris, Erwin BernauerThe small group training focuses on both employment and personal goals, including:

  • increasing employment-related vocabulary
  • developing banking skills
  • familiarizing students with health and safety
  • completing common forms

All students have indicated a desire for greater independence at work and home. We thank Laubach Literacy of Canada for the $600 book grant and Ford Canada for their donation of six computers for the literacy room.

Anne Marie Demers, Instructor

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