Training Opportunities
Other Training Opportunities
Up to this point, this section has highlighted some training opportunities that increase practitioners' skills and abilities in certain skills areas. Of course, there are many other skills that literacy practitioners may want or need to increase in order to deliver effective literacy instruction and run effective literacy programs. The following organizations all offer training or directories of training that can be relevant to literacy practitioners. You might want to check their websites regularly to see what is available. Please remember that the samples that we have included are only a snapshot of the endless training opportunities and possibilities. You are encouraged to conduct an even broader search via the Internet and through your own personal connections with friends, family, work colleagues and organizations in your community and beyond.
A Commitment to Training and Employment for Women: www.actew.org/
You can access ACTEW's directory of training and employment services for women in Ontario to locate training in your community.
Festival of Literacies: www.literaciesoise.ca/Index.html
Festival of Literacies describes itself as a "place to celebrate the creation and mobilization of knowledge about literacy practice and literacy research". It includes links to both online and on-campus (University of Toronto) courses.
The Ontario Network of Employment Skills Training Projects (ONESTEP)
www.onestep.on.ca
NESTEP is a province-wide umbrella organization for the community-based training and employment (CBTE) sector. More than 450 programs are provided by their member agencies, with over 250,000 clients served each year. Services include but are not limited to: career and personal counselling; literacy, ESL and numeracy programs; job-finding clubs; computer courses; sector-specific training and job placement.
Quill Learning Network: www.quillnetwork.ca
www.quillnetwork.ca/training.htm
This Quill webpage links to a PDF containing a list of workshops that are offered by people in the LBS field. Some of these workshops are suitable for the general public as well as for the literacy field. For more detailed information, contact workshop facilitators directly.
Thinkfinity Literacy Network:
http:literacynetwork.verizon.org/Free-Online-Courses.21.0.html
Verizon's Thinkfinity Literacy Network offers free, online training on a variety of topics relevant to literacy practitioners.
