| Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile
Employees (UNITE) Local 459 |
The Workplace Integrated Literacy and Computers
Project |
The Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE), Local 459
will design and create an approach, based on the "Integrated Model" created by
UNITE in 1997, within the workplace context, to provide support to practitioners
who use computers as a teaching and learning tool. To do this, the project will
identify a model for the use of computers by workplace literacy instructors as a
tool to manage student learning, to assist in lesson preparation and activity
development, and to facilitate the writing process. An instructor training session
will be developed and delivered to discuss the use of the model, gain project
feedback and provide an opportunity for trainers to network and collaborate. A
Practitioner Resource Handbook will be developed to assist workplace educators in
combining literacy and computer instruction. In addition, a promotional package
will be created to help develop awareness of the integrative instructional
methodology and the workplace model. Evaluation will be conducted through
receiving feedback from all project participants and from the field. The project will
explore and discover ways to teach and learn literacy and computer skills within
the workplace. |
| United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners
of America, Local 343 |
Improving Job Site Skills Project. Phase I -
Organizational Needs Assessment |
The main goal of the project is to determine the necessary workplace literacy skills
of carpenters on the job site and to develop recommendations for programs to
improve these skills. The techniques used included; a mail out questionnaire to all
carpenter members of Local 343, an employer survey, employer interviews, on site
observations and interviews, and focus groups. |
| United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners
of America, Local 343 |
Improving Job Site Skills Project, Phase II - Improving
Job Site Communication Skills |
Phase II of the project was design to address the concerns and recommendations
made in Phase I (1994). The project aims to develop a workplace literacy seminar
for trade instructors; to review existing courses to identify workplace literacy
skills, to develop course outline for speaking, writing & spelling, reading and
English as a second language, to develop a supervisory skill course and to explore
alternate methods of course delivery. |
| United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America Local 579 and 2564 |
Needs Assessment |
The project will assess the extent of basic literacy problems among union
members, their willingness to participate in a basic education program and the
most suitable program delivery, locations and times. |
| United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Allied
Workers of America Local 27 (LAC) |
Language Competency Training Program |
The Carpenters LAC has created the first carpentry specific Language Competency
Training Program. This project will see the development of a course instructors
manual which will enable the program to be used by other organizations. |