Basic Skills for the WorkplaceLiteracy or basic skills instruction for the workplace is a new and evolving field of practice for trainers, program planners and other partners in business, industry and education. With the growing gap between workplace demands and workforce skills increasing, there is now a need to ensure that employees with basic skills deficiencies have education and training opportunities. This book is a response to this need. It is a useful resource for day to day practical guide for developing and implementing workplace programs. Information is arranged under four major themes: Part 1: Understanding the need for workplace literacy * Understanding the history and definitions of workplace literacy (Eunice Askov and Betty Aderman) * Understanding Literacy in the Canadian Business Context: Conference Board of Canada Study (Kenneth Hart) * Understanding Basic Workplace Skills in a Changing Business Environment" (Paul Jones) * Understanding the Need for Workplace Literacy Partnerships" (Glenda Lewe) * Understanding Lessons Learned in Employee Basic Skills Efforts in the United States: No Quick Fix" (Paul Jurmo) * Understanding Values in Workplace Education" (James A. Draper) * Understanding a Project Proposal Development" (Audrey Anderson) Part 2: Identifying workplace training needs: * How to Assess Learners and Build Workplace Literacy Programs" (Miria Ioannou, Gordon Nore, Brent Poulton and Sarah Thompson) * How to Assess Organizational Needs and Requirements" (Sue Waugh) * How to Establish a Workplace Basic Skills Program: A Blue Print for Success: (Anthony Carnevale, Leila J. Gainer and Ann S. Meltzer) * How to Approach Worker Testing and Assessment" (Maurice C. Taylor) * How to Identify Workplace Communications Skills in the British Columbia Sawmill Industry" (Bert Hawyrsh) * How to Plan and Conduct a Literacy Task Analysis" (Maurice C. Taylor and Glenda Lewe) * How to Design Instruction: From Literacy Task Analyses to Curriculum" (Jorie Philippi) Examples of practice in workplace basic skills training: * So We Can Make Our Voices Heard: The Ontario Federation of Labour's BEST Project on Worker Literacy" (James Turk and Jean Unda) * Basic Skills Upgrading: A Trades Training Perspective" (Julian Evetts and Patrick Flanagan) * Workplace ESL and Literacy: A Business and Education Partnership (Peggy Kinsey) * The Massachusetts Workplace Education Program" (Judy Hikes) * A Canadian Volunteer Industrial Tutoring Project" (Luke Batdorf) * WORKBASE: Practical Approaches to Literacy in the Workplace" (Rose Taw) * Towards a Workplace Literacy Curriculum Model" (Michael Langenbach) Discovering approaches for program development: * Choosing Workplace Literacy Resources" (Susan Imel) * Adapting Workplace Materials for Teaching ESL Students" (Avis Meenan) * Thinking Critically in the Workplace" (Gloria Pierce) * Accrediting Basic Skills for the Workplace" (Leslie Morphy) * Using Television for Work Force Basic Skills Training" (Dehra Shafer) * Evaluating Workplace Literacy Programs" (Kathryn Chang) * Deciding on the Effectiveness of Workplace Literacy Programs" (Larry Mikulecky, Lisa D'Adamo-Weinstein) Epilogue: * Reflections on Education in the Workplace" (James A. Draper). |
Contents
Understanding the History and Definitions | 7 |
Understanding Literacy in the Canadian Business | 21 |
Understanding the Need for Workplace | 51 |
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