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Integrating Essential Skills into Training Materials Report & Resource Guide WW
Workshop 2: Essential Skills Tools and Resources
Lynda Fownes
Lynda Fownes, Executive Director of SkillPlan, familiarized delegates with the variety of
tools and resources available for use when integrating essential skills into training
development and delivery. In particular she focused on the many resources developed
by SkillPlan with funding provided by Human Resources Social Development Canada.
Lynda reviewed SkillPlan’s mandate and the services that SkillPlan provides before
reviewing four of the SkillPlan resources, Reading at Work, Writing at Work, Document
Use at Work, and Numeracy at Work. Information on each resource including costs can
be found below. Resources can be ordered by accessing the online order form at
http://www.skillplan.ca/English/orderonline.htm SkillPlan also very generously
contributed 6 Reading at Work: Workplace Readers, and 5 Reading at Work Facilitator’s
Guides to delegates who agreed to complete a tracking form so that SkillPlan can followup
with them in future to determine how the resources have been put to use.
Reading at Work
Reading at Work illustrates how the Essential Skills of reading text and document use
are applied in the workplace. In the Reading at Work Workplace Reader and Facilitator's
Guide, authentic workplace documents and real-life stories of workers on the job form
the basis of learning activities. Lesson activities in the Facilitator's Guide help the
instructor introduce and expand on topics in the Workplace Reader, providing learning
strategies, suggestions for further activities, and additional source documents. Reading
at Work enables instructors and trainers from the fields of adult/workplace education,
literacy, and employment counseling, to focus on the information processing structure
and strategies that lead to increased learner success and worker competency. For
students and workers, the stories and activities in the Workplace Reader provide a
unique opportunity to practice reading skills such as locating, combining, comparing and
contrasting, integrating, explaining, and evaluating information. These skills are
transferable and used by workers in many occupations.
Facilitator’s Guide Price: $75.00 Workplace Reader Price: $35.00 [$25* each on
GST and shipping charges extra. orders of 10 or more copies]
Format: 3 ring binder, 410 pages. GST and shipping charges extra.
*Note: Discount Price. Expires August 31, 2006
Format: 3 ring binder, 306 pages.
Writing at Work
Writing at Work is a resource based on the world of work. It describes the writing
used in many occupations. The descriptions and examples use the language of Human
Resources Social Development Canada’s Essential Skills Profiles, which have become the
standard in addressing workplace writing in Canada. Each chapter examines the
purpose, style, organization and use of such writing forms as Memos, Entry Forms,
Logbooks, Bulletins and Regulations.