Introduction
LLLP Website Benefits
| Literacy Agencies and Practitioners | Literacy Program Administrators and Boards of Directors |
| Learners | Government | Employment Ontario Partners | Individuals with an Interest in Literacy |
Community Literacy of Ontario recognizes that literacy practitioners in Ontario strive to meet the expectations of their stakeholders. Therefore, while designing and researching this website, we kept the following groups of stakeholders in mind:
Literacy Agencies and Practitioners
You have a vested interest in your lifelong learning and ongoing training needs. Literacy practitioners require a large number of soft skills, such as compassion, empathy, flexibility, openness, collegiality, the ability to think on their feet, and the ability to adapt constantly. However, soft skills can be challenging both to prove and to “count,” making them difficult to teach. We don't find many literacy practitioner workshops on “thinking on your feet,” even though the ability to do so is an important part of most practitioners' work. It's often the hard skills that are required of literacy practitioners which lend themselves to training.
Community Literacy of Ontario's long experience in providing practitioner training throughout this province clearly shows that literacy practitioners typically consider these factors when determining their training and education needs:
- Time
- Cost
- Relevance
- Ease of access
- Quality
The LLLP website is designed with you in mind. It will enable you to access training and resources to improve your literacy practice and at the same time consider your own wants and needs. It will also inform you about the education and skill requirements for the other literacy sectors.
Literacy Program Administrators and Boards of Directors
If you are a literacy program administrator or if you sit on a Board of Directors for an adult literacy program, you are likely concerned about the skills of your staff – how to attract skilled practitioners and tutors, how to assist practitioners and tutors to gain additional skills, and how to protect your organization from a skills drain in the event that long-term practitioners or tutors leave the program. The LLLP website will help you guide practitioners and tutors in their own professional development and will help you develop effective succession planning at the organizational level.
