Annex B: Detailed descriptions of projects

Essential Skills Projects


Name of Project: Basic Education and Skills Training Transformations
Sponsor's Name: Canadian Auto Workers Union
Description: 50% paid time and 50% personal time. Use of peer instructors. Emphasis on a learner-directed model, using adult learning principles. A curriculum more standardized. Different modules and levels, with a certification of completion for each. Options to address emerging priorities and needs in workplace.
   
Start Date: July 2001 End Date: July 2002
City: Toronto Provice/Territory: Ontario
       
Scope: Local Checked Box Provincial/Territorial National
  Regional Interprovincial  
       
Essential skills: Checked Box Reading text Oral communication Thinking skills:
  Document use Working with others Problem solving
  Writing Computer use Decision Making
  Numeracy Continuous Learning Job Task Panning
and Organization
      Significant user of memory
      Finding information
       
Skilled trades addressed: Auto industry trades
Essential skills profile created?  
Project Cost:  
Government funder: HRSDC (HRP)