| Project Read Literacy Network Waterloo-
Wellington Inc. |
An Initial Assessment of Apprenticeship Candidates -
Workplace Literacy |
Project Read Literacy Network (PRLN) Waterloo-Wellington Inc. will adapt their
existing Literacy and Basic Skills Referral Assessment package for three identified
apprenticeship trades. By doing this, they will provide employers with a useful tool
to screen potential apprenticeship candidates, who in turn will be able to profit
from more effective individual training plans from literacy agencies. PRLN will
begin with initial research on the apprenticeship sector to determine its entry
requirements, existing pre-testing and enrolment procedures. They will also
contact all their advisory partners for their input regarding the targeting of trades
and the adaptation of the literacy assessment package. They will then identify three
target industry sectors that utilize an apprenticeship system and contact the training
committees in those sectors to begin consultations and development of the
package. Further research will be conducted to gather materials for inclusion into
the literacy assessment package. Once completed, the assessments will be
validated by PRLN's advisory partners, piloted with apprenticeship candidates and
revised as needed. The results of the project and the steps taken to achieve them
will be documented in a report, which will be made available to other
organizations throughout Ontario. Feedback on the assessment package from adult
and literacy agencies representatives, as well as pre-project and post-project
surveys with key stakeholders will be used to evaluate the success of this project. |
| Roofing Industry Training Association of
Alberta |
Roofers Educational Skills Training |
The project will provide curriculum development, as well as administrative and
instructional services for training which delivers literacy skills necessary to better
perform roofers' job and to keep up with technological changes within the roofing
industry. |
| Saskatchewan Apprenticeship and Trade
Certification Commission |
Apprenticeship entry requirements |
Grade level entry requirements have been removed from trade legislation. The
project is to compare grade entry levels with essential skill profiles, review entry
examinations and ensure apprentices either have the skills to be successful when
they enter training, or know where deficiencies are and have a means of addressing
them. |
| Saskatchewan Labour Force Development
Board |
Applied Mathematics for Trades |
The project will pilot a new approach to applied mathematics teaching for people
in the apprenticeable trades. The project will develop exercises in particular trades
(i.e.. electrician) to enable to move from the general instruction of a concept to the
specific training required by the participants. |