Essential Skills - National Adult Literacy Database

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Essential Skills and the Northern Oil and Gas Workforce Final Report and Resource Guide
Phase 4
•Learner uses technical skills to produce
the product or service (based on product
specifications and production planning).
•Learner given additional technical skills
development and skills reinforcement
where necessary.
Phase 5
•Learner assesses product in terms of client
feedback and product specifications.
•Learner develops product assessment criteria
(must reflect specific quality standards
addressing form, function, finishing, esthetics).
•Learner undertakes quality control using criteria.
•Learner re-designs and re-develops the product
and the process to improve results and
documents.
•Learner files documents for future reference.
Other information…
• Technical, business and essential skills are
acquired by working through a number of
projects that target specific skills.
• Learners assume the role of entrepreneurs –
there is no production without a client or target
market, a design brief, a specifications list, a
production plan.
• Costing and pricing (and eventually customer
quotations) is a part of every project.
• Trainees create their own business names and
identities, and produce business cards.
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An example: The Cabinet
Project (Woodworking)
• Every learner had to find a customer
who wanted to buy a handmade cabinet.
• Each learner designed and produced a
cabinet to meet his or her customer’s
specific needs.
• The result – a range of styles (each
cabinet was developed from a different
set of specifications).
Cabinet
Project
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