Tools
Self-evaluation | Workforce preparation
Library catalogues
Decoda Literacy Solutions Resource Catalogue
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This section of the Decoda Literacy Solutions website is intended to provide you online access to the library collection.
Online educational resources
Category: Essential skills
The Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) has developed this site to provide an exchange network on essential skills for its member institutions and their partners. It features a description of ongoing and completed essential skills projects and a database of resources and tools.
Category: Essential skills
Accredited online colleges are growing in size, traditional colleges are adopting online programs, and all trends indicate that distance learning is not only here to stay but that it will make an unprecedented impact on the educational systems currently in place. This site is dedicated to providing resources that will help readers understand online colleges and accreditation and make informed decisions regarding the different schools and certifications being offered for those who are interested in pursuing a degree online.
Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks (CCLB)
Category: Essential skills
The Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks (CCLB) is the national standard setting body for the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) and Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadiens (NCLC). The CCLB supports and promotes the use of these national standards in educational, training, community and workplace settings.
Category: Essential skills
National Bank has stepped up its efforts in recent years to increase public awareness of the importance of being financially literate. Its website Clear Facts has helped readers make enlightened decisions that will contribute to their financial health. It offers valuable information to families, students and entrepreneurs, along with interactive games for youngsters.
Construction Sector Council (CSC) E-Learning Centre
Category: Essential skills
The Construction Sector Council (CSC) is a national organization committed to the development of a highly skilled construction workforce. One of its ongoing programs is the development of e-learning courses for construction supervisory and managerial personnel. To view a listing of the courses that CSC currently provides please view its Course Catalogue.
Directory of ESL Courses and Employment Programs for Immigrants in British Columbia
Category: Essential skills
This is a comprehensive online directory of English as a second language courses and programs, courses and services that prepare immigrants for a job or career in British Columbia. The directory allows users to select a city in which programs are offered and view specific contact information for each site.
Category: Essential skills
Take the Employer of Choice challenge. An Employer of Choice is one people have heard about and want to join and one where people are proud of the fact they belong to the organization. An Employer of Choice is one where people go out of their way to perform at the highest level possible and one where people make an extra effort to find new and innovative ways to respond to new demands.
Essential Skills at Work in the North
Category: Essential skills
By clicking on various posters on this interactive display board, visitors can learn about each job outlined, the training and background required for each, and the skills needed to do the work successfully. The job profiles include information about how the essential skills are used in each job.
Category: Essential skills
The Government of Canada conducted extensive research to examine the skills people use in the workplace. From this research and through interviews with workers, managers, practitioners and leading researchers, over 350 Essential Skills Profiles have been developed for various occupations of the National Occupational Classification.
Category: Essential skills
The Everyday Life Project uses interactive, situation-based lessons to teach functional literacy skills. This new approach to learning allows learners to apply their basic literacy skills to real-world situations so they can gain the confidence and skills to be successful.
Category: Essential skills
InMyLanguage.org provides multilingual information for newcomers to Ontario. Categories include immigrating, work, housing, health, education, legal matters and daily life. Funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the site was developed by the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants.
Job Profiles / Literacy in the Workplace
Category: Essential skills
In conjunction with industry training organizations and employers in New Zealand, the website Workbase has created profiles of the literacy skills required in many jobs. The profiles can be used by employers, industry training organizations, tutors and trainers, schools, career counsellors and employees.
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Language Portal of Canada is a website that showcases Canadian expertise in the area of language. It informs readers about Canadian resources including online language tools; articles and writing tips; word games and exercises (the Well Written, Well Said section); a collection of links to language-related works and sites (the Discover section); and Canadian writing tools and content produced by governments, universities and others. Information is available in English and French, and in some Aboriginal languages.
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This website features practical ideas to make it easier to teach and learn when you or people you work with are faced with violence or hard times. You will also be linked to people and organizations that are exploring violence and learning through research and practice. Most of the information is Canadian and from the adult literacy field.
Category: Essential skills
The Learning Edge is a learning tool funded by the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities and the National Literacy Secretariat. Its video and audio components cover topics such as communication in the workplace, workplace safety, essential workplace skills and what it takes to stay employed.
Ontario Network of Employment Skills Training Projects (ONESTEP)
Category: Essential skills
The Ontario Network of Employment Skills Training Projects (ONESTEP) is a province-wide umbrella organization for the community-based training and employment sector. More than 450 programs are provided by member agencies. Services include career and personal counselling; literacy, ESL and numeracy programs; job-finding clubs; computer courses; sector-specific training and job placement.
Category: Essential skills
SkillPlan has been nationally recognized as a leader in the field of essential skills and workplace education. Its mandate is to serve the construction sector, however, its experience in responding to a variety of workplace challenges suggests that many essential skills issues are common not only to multiple trades but to other sectors. One of SkillPlan’s strategies for improving essential skills is to develop materials for others to use. These resources make a valuable addition to professional libraries.
STP: Skills Training Partnership
Category: Essential skills
A Skills Training Partnership is a unique project designed to assist employers in developing training programs that prepare qualified job seekers with disabilities for employment. A creation of the Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work, this website offers employers, community agencies and persons with disabilities the tools needed for getting started, information about best practices and project/job search support.
Summer in Smallywood Essential Skills Learning Series
Category: Essential skills
The Centre for Skills Development & Training has developed an educational video game targeted at young adults aged 15 to 30 to help enhance their employability. The game is focused on improving their competence in three of the essential skills: oral communication, working with others and thinking skills. It can be played in French by selecting “French” as the language from the top right drop-down menu. The project was funded by the Government of Canada’s Office of Literacy & Essential Skills in partnership with the Halton Industry Education Council.
Category: Essential skills
The Toolkit brings together a pool of resources for workplace language, literacy and numeracy in order to make good practice freely available to practitioners, learning representatives and brokers. These resources include guidelines, case studies and exemplar materials to support and supplement training and development activities.
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Tutela.ca is a national online repository and community for Canadian ESL and FSL professionals. As a repository, it contains learning activities, worksheets, templates, teacher training resources, curriculum guidelines, policy and management documents, research papers and more. As a community, Tutela offers interactive technologies to support ongoing collaboration and sharing, and builds community through special interest groups, a calendar of events, survey tools, postings of training/job opportunities, wikis and news feeds.
Category: Essential skills
The Workit Youth Apprenticeship Initiative is a province-wide effort to fill the increasing labour shortage in Nova Scotia’s skilled trades. Whether you’re a youth, parent, educator or an employer, this site has the information you need to learn more about the benefits of youth apprenticeship.
Category: Essential skills
Your Financial Toolkit is divided into 11 modules, each focusing on a different financial topic. In addition to the basic information, the modules contain tools to help you practise financial skills and apply the information to your own life. The tools include videos, interactive worksheets, calculators, quizzes, questionnaires and case studies. Your Financial Toolkit was developed by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, the Investor Education Fund and l'Autorité des marchés financiers.
Program directories
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Experience exchange and knowledge transfer are crucial means of promoting literacy and numeracy efforts. In order to encourage all key players to share their experiences and gain inspiration from innovative approaches in the field of literacy, this website provides a selection of effective adult literacy and numeracy programs from all regions of the world.
Self-evaluation
Blueprint for Life / Work Design
Category: Essential skills
The Blueprint for Life/Work Design helps you discover the skills, knowledge and attitudes required to effectively design and manage your life, work and career. It is a national framework that maps out the life and work competencies individuals need to effectively build their lives and careers.
Category: Essential skills
The Candidate Manager is a free time-saving, job-matching tool that helps skilled trades employers and potential candidates in the Durham region of Ontario find each other. Employers answer questions about the job they need to fill, candidates answer questions about the skills they have to offer and the system uses technology to find the best matched candidates for available jobs.
Clear Language and Design Reading Effectiveness Tool
Category: Essential skills
Use the reading effectiveness tool to find out if your draft manuscript is at the right grade reading level for your intended audience. This interactive tool is based on the Simple Measure of Gobbledegook (SMOG) readability formula. The tool will do the calculations for you. If your text is shorter than 30 sentences, go to the version of this tool for shorter documents.
Common Assessment of Basic Skills (CABS)
Category: Essential skills
Seventy-nine demonstrations from the CABS (Common Assessment of Basic Skills) manual have been recreated here in an online environment to provide a practical assessment tool for use with literacy/basic skills students who can work on computers.
Category: Essential skills
Service Canada’s training and careers website features Employability Skills+, a tool that informs you about skills you need to enter, stay in and progress in the world of work – whether you work on your own or as a part of a team. Rate yourself against the skills employers say are needed in today’s workplace. There are 49 questions and the approximate time required to complete the exercise is five minutes.
ESPORT, the essential skills portfolio
Category: Essential skills
ESPORT is a basic skills assessment and planning tool to help people prepare for entry level occupations. ESPORT with PLATO Essential Skills Online offers a supported learning program tailored to the occupation you choose.
Category: Essential skills
Measure Up is a self-assessment tool available on the TOWES website. Users will have an opportunity to practise three essential skills needed in all types of occupations: reading text of the sort typically found in manuals, training material, product information and regulations; document use that involves the reading of materials in information displays such as maps, forms, schedules, diagrams and catalogues; and numeracy, the use of arithmetic with numbers found in text and documents.
Category: Essential skills
The Ontario Skills Passport is a bilingual web-based resource that provides clear descriptions of the skills and work habits needed for success in the workplace. It is designed to help employers assess and record the skills and work habits learners demonstrate on the job and helps students and job seekers improve their skills and work habits.
Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR)
Category: Essential skills
Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC) has defined Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) as the process of identifying, assessing and recognizing skills, knowledge and competencies that have been acquired through work experience, unrecognized training, independent study, volunteer activities and hobbies. Strategies associated with PLAR can be a valuable labour market tool to assist workers-in-transition.
Workplace Essential Skills Learning Assessment Tool (WESLAT)
Category: Essential skills
A service of the Centre for Education and Work, WESLAT is a tool to assess learning in an organization. The tool provides information to organizations about their workplace learning in order to identify strengths and learning gaps. It is free and easy to administer.
Workplace Informal Learning Matrix (WILM)
Category: Essential skills
The Workplace Informal Learning Matrix (WILM) is a powerful tool to help you measure the complexity of informal learning in your workplace. It consists of a series of specific scales used to capture the opportunity and levels of the essential skills required for a range of job classifications in the workplace. These non-technical skills include communication, problem solving, working with others, decision making, leadership, workplace culture, diversity and continuous learning.
Workforce preparation
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Project Aspiro is a comprehensive career planning and employment resource for individuals who are blind or partially sighted. You’ll find everything you need to achieve your career goals including career planning advice, information about education, profiles of people enjoying meaningful careers, and much more. There’s also a range of valuable information for friends and family, service providers and employers.
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