Integrating Essential Skills into Training - National Adult Literacy ...

Preview rewards for employees
• clarifies reading purpose and reduces
“I will use these reading strategies on the job;
stress
it will help ensure the job is done right and safely.”
• aids comprehension and memory Syncrude participant
• provides a strategy for large quantities of
reading
Preview rewards for trainers
• saves time and explanations
• quickly places reading within
“This is an excellent program. I wish had taken it 3 years
ago, before I started the OH&S certificate. I will use
the strategies at work as well as in my studies.”
OH&S participant
the workplace context “I learned new ways to approach reading. I will
• reveals training needs of focus on being in the moment. I will read
employees procedures differently.”
Shapotowak participant
Workplace Applied Math
Themes
Foundation skills for business literacy,
trades specific math and everyday use Numbers and Number Sense
Program: Measurement & Geometry
• workplace specific math
applications Data: Data Analysis, Statistics
• trained workplace math & Graphing
instructors
• small delivery Algebra: Patterns & Functions
Solution
Securing Canada’s Energy Future
Percentage application To teach this we instruct that all practical percentage
applications have three basic parts:
A CMS machinist is to allow a 1.5% tolerance on a Actual amount
shaft 18 feet in length. How much tolerance is Base (whole or original amount)
allowed? Give answer in inches. Rate (%)
Work with the people at your table to And the idea that: Actual amount = Rate(%) x Base (whole
answer this question. You
amount)
have 3 minutes.
= 1.5% x18 feet = 27/100 = .27 feet
Measurement conversion = .27 feet x12 in /1 ft
= 3.24 inches