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

Essential Skills Essential Skills
Introduced in 1995
Human Resources and Social Development (formerly
• Identified how a core or essential set of skills
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada)
are used in the workplace Reading Text Thinking Skills
• Defined the set of skills as Essential Skills Document Use • Problem Solving
because they were found in virtually every
workplace in Canada
Writing
Numeracy
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Decision Making
Job Task Planning and
Organizing
Working with Others • Significant Use of
Continuous Learning
Oral Communication
Computer Use
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Memory
Finding Information
How do they Compare? What we set out to do...
Key Points Development of Transferable Skills
Basically the same skills Update Entry Level Skills
Research shows that these skills are Combine them with the language of
transferable other skills frameworks
Attitudes have been found to be the
Reflect the language used in the
“drivers” behind an employee being
workplace
able and willing to use the other skills Rename them Transferable Skills to
These skills and attitudes are found
throughout most industry sectors
emphasize their transferability
Development Process Development Process
ONE • Reviewed the Entry Level Skills Standards Received strong participation in
TWO • Integrated the language of Essential Skills
the feedback process
and Employability Attitudes
• Very supportive of having the attitudes
THREE • Developed a framework diagram to show the
connections of the three sets of skills
up front and calling them attitudes
• Everyone who replied made comments
that justified having those skills and
FOUR • Created a draft Transferable Skills Standards attitudes in the standards
document • No negatives
FIVE • Circulated the draft document to an industry
review committee Validation Committee
• Committee ratified the Transferable Skills
O b j e t i v e Standards on March 7, 2003