National Adult Literacy Database

SkillPlan, a leader in essential skills, is pleased to present these online workshops for professional development. These workshops offer practitioners ideas on how to use these resources in instruction and provide an opportunity to share ideas with colleagues.

Controlling complexity online support

Understand the elements of question structure. Explore how the complexity of questions can be controlled in order to scaffold learning.

• Participants commit to reading the book and doing its exercises section by section outside of session times. Sessions are used as a forum for discussion, feedback, and support around the exercises and readings completed each week.
• The online format provides participants an opportunity to engage in discussions with other educators about question structure theory and practice.

A session series: 4 sessions, 90 minutes each, once a week
Completion of sessions and exercises for a certificate of participation
Additional session series can be arranged for groups of five to 10 participants upon request.

Numeracy at work

Learn how this resource can be a great tool for teaching your learners how numbers are used in workplace settings.

• Focus on examples of real workers completing job tasks for Money Math, Scheduling or Budgeting and Accounting Math, Measurement Math, and Data Analysis Math.
• Discuss how work applications can be used in instruction.

2-session course, each session 90 to 120 minutes
Completion of a short assignment and final assignment for a certificate

Reading at work

Learn how this resource can increase the ability of your learners to locate information in simulated work tasks.

• Link instruction to workplace applications, particularly thinking about reading as information processing.
• Review transferable reading strategies by using the SkillPlan publications Workplace Reader and Facilitator’s Guide.

3-session course, each session 60 to 90 minutes
Completion of a short assignment and a final assignment for a certificate

Thinking strategies for numeracy

Find out how this resource can be a valuable tool for learners who need to practise work tasks that involve integrating reading text, document use and numeracy skills.

• Learn a strategy that workers can apply to many types of work tasks.
• Discover how the accompanying e-book can be used to visually illustrate the thinking process.

2-session course, each session 90 to 120 minutes
Completion of short assignment and final assignment for a certificate

For more information visit www.skillplan.ca and go to Events and Services, Online Training.
If you have a group of three or four practitioners, SkillPlan can schedule sessions to suit your availability.

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