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recently posted:
Work For All: Stop Racism in the
Workplace - Making It - an online video (10 minutes) by
Sobaz Benjamin.
Workbase: The New Zealand Centre for
Workforce Literacy Development is a not-for-profit
organisation specialising in improving workforce literacy. Many
useful resources and publications.
Essential skills - from the
Canadian Automotive Repair and Serivce - an enumeration of skills
needed for work, learning and life; providing the foundation for
learning all other skills. Essential skills enable people to evolve
with their jobs, adapting to workplace changes.
Workforce Development Guides -
The Texas Workforce Commission has developed comprehensive guides for
Texas Workforce Center, Board, and all TWC staff. Each guide provides
comprehensive, statewide policy and resources for operational guidance
and oversight of services and contains learning components to reinforce
and support key concepts.
Totally Skilled - U.K.
-based Embedded Skills for Life in Vocational Qualifications Project;
the site is "designed to help you access the work of those awarding
bodies and Sector Skills Councils that worked with us to develop ways
to embed Skills for Life and Key Skills into different aspects of their
work."
The Workforce Alliance -
national coalition of community-based organizations, community
colleges, unions, business leaders and local officials advocating for
public policies that invest in the skills of America's workers, so they
can better support their families and help American businesses better
compete in today's economy.
Dr.
Martin Luther
King,
Jr.and SEIU 1199 - The Freedom we Seek; history of the
Reverand Dr. King's
relationship
with the union, as well as a speech he delivered shortly before his
assassination
Understanding
Curriculum Development in the Workplace: A Resource for Educators
by Mary Ellen Belfiore; posted 11/03, written in 1996, this
resource book written by Mary Ellen Belfiore provides a comprehensive
view of a range of curriculum development approaches.
The
Maturing of a Profession: An Overview of Workplace Education
Practitioner
Development Opportunities by Margarit Roger, M.Ed
about.com -
Workplace literacy and basic skills:
compendium of resources
Applications of
Working and Learning
- Canadian AWAL national professional development project for
educators.
"Participants are placed in a variety of workplace environments to help
them connect the curriculum they teach in the classroom with how that
curriculum
is used in the workplace. Using what they learn, participants develop
relevant
classroom activities that are then stored in an easy to use,
searchable,
electronic database."
The
Impact of Arts Education on Workforce Preparation - National
Governors
Association Issue Brief providing "examples of arts-based education as
a money-and time-saving option for states looking to build skills,
increase
academic success, heighten standardized test scores, and lower the
incidence
of crime among general and at-risk populations."
Asian Immigrant
Women Advocates - (AIWA) is a
community
based organization established in 1983. Through education, leadership
development,
and organizing, AIWA seeks to foster empowerment of low-income, limited
English speaking Asian immigrant women who work as seamstresses, hotel
room cleaners, electronics assemblers, nursing home workers, and
janitors
in the greater San Francisco, Oakland, and South Bay Area.
(read an article about AIWA in Sojourners
Magazine, July-August, 1997.)
Ask
a working woman - one of AFLCIO's women
and work resources, with results of their 2002
survey indicating that child care (not surprisingly) is a necessity
for parents who work, study or otherwise need to be out of the house to
earn a living.
Career
Planning Guide for Adult Learners - useful set of questions for
reflection about work for those seeking new or different kinds of
employment.
Career Voyages – US Dept of
Labor website exploring career options in advanced manufacturing,
automotive, construction, energy, financial services, health care,
hospitality, information technology, retail, and transportation
industries, as well as in emerging industries -- biotechnology,
geospatial technology, and nanotechnology. Learn which industries are
growing, how to qualify for a good job, and where to get started.
Includes video (with subtitles) illustrating a number of occupations.
The Center for
Study of Working Class Life - dedicated to exploring the
meaning of class in today's world. Its work includes the study of
class "mainly with tools of the social sciences, but we also pay
attention
to the arts. Through our gallery and tv/video pages, we highlight the
work
of artists who convey the many faces and circumstances of working
people
today."
Certified Nursing Assistant materials
- excellent resources available from Frontline
Publishing Corporation and, Nursing
Assistant Monthly and Nursing Assistant resources on the web.
District
1199 Training and Upgrading fund - The New England
Health
Care Employees Union, District 1199 and the Connecticut Nursing
Homes
Training and Upgrading Fund provides educational opportunities
for
1199 members from 37 nursing homes, and one residential facility,
throughout the state of Connecticut.
Employability
Skills: An Update - ERIC Digest No. 220 by
Christine
Overtoom, 2000. [one of several digests relevant to adult learning at
the
ERIC Clearninghouse on Adult,
Career and Vocational Education.
Employment
and housing rights for survivors of abuse - one of a series of
pages at Legal
Momentum
that examines work and women's rights on the job. (PDF version here)
Equipped
for the Future Work Readiness Credential - new initiative
designed
to identify those skills needed to enter the workforce: " a new tool
for
assuring that jobseekers have the knowledge, skills, and abilities they
need to succeed in the 21st Century Workplace."
Essentail
Skills for Life, Learning and Work - bank of workplace tasks
and
overarching language/literacy skills, from Human Resources Development,
Canada
Facilitators'
Notes - The Challenges of Literacy and Employment by Susan
Devins
and Maureen Sanders - full text document from Prospects Literacy
Association,
Alberta, Canada.
Finding
the Right Job - 2nd Edition, 2000
Copyright:
© Prince Edward Learning Centre, 1997, 2000
Focus on Basics:
Workplace
Education - November, 2004
Getting
There: A Curriculum for People Moving into Employment (pdf file) - Marian
Colette, Beverly Woliver, Mary Beth Bingman and Juliet Merrifield, 1996.
Facilitator's guide
(html)
Good
Practice in Use - Guldelines for Good Practice in Workplace Education:
(Mary Ellen Belfiore, Ontario Literacy Coalition, September 2002), and
other workplace education resources.
The Heldrich Center
for
Workforce Development at Rutgers - "a university-based research
and policy center dedicated to raising the effectiveness of the
American
workplace by strengthening workforce education, placement and training
programs and policies."
The Impact
of
the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 on Women's Employment
- from
The National Jobs
for All Coalition
Investing
in Workers' Basic Skills: Lessons for Adult Education Professionals
from
Company-Funded Workplace Literacy Programs. NIFL fellowship
project,
1999 - 2000 by Alec Levenson.
Jobs for the Future -
resources
for creating strategies for educational and economic opportunity
The
Language of Opportunity: Expanding Employment Prospects for Adults with
Limited English Skills, CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY: Heide
Spruck Wrigley, Elise Richer, Karin Martinson, Hitomi Kubo, and Julie
Strawn.
September, 2003
This report describes the demographics and economic circumstances of
low-income adults with limited English proficiency (LEP) as well as the
language and job training services available to them. The authors
summarize
lessons from scientific evaluation research on employment programs for
low-skilled adults and provide recommendations for policy and practice
that would increase opportunities for LEP adults to gain access to
higher-paying
jobs. The appendix includes profiles of several programs that are
successfully
training and working with LEP adults.
Learning
For Life - campus based community service program that pairs
Swarthmore
College students with members of the College staff. The "learning
partnerships"
work together on various continuing education activities, from learning
basic computer skills, to taking and developing pictures, to reading
the
Bible or to preparing for the GED.
Literacy
and Employability: New Discussions - A conversation with Judy
Hofer
and Sarah Wing, from the Best
of Bright Ideas.
Literacy at
Work - Newsletter of ABC Canada Literacy Foundation
Looking
for a Job? A guide for adult literacy students -
step
by step guide to the job-seeking process.
National
Workplace
Literacy
Program - archived materials as well as other related
resources.
New
Skills for a New Economy report and awareness campaign from
MassINC,
examining connections between educational attainment and employment
possiblities
for adult in (and around) Massachusetts,
- and other resources from Commonwealth
Magazine
Canadian English Language Benchmark
Assessment for Nurses - "fair and reliable assessment of an
internationally-educated nurse’s English language proficiency in four
skills: listening, speaking, writing and reading."
Participatory
Classess About Work and Union by Jenny Lee Utech, in Field
Notes Vol. 13, No. 3 (Winter 2003) Theme: Social Justice
- including other pieces about work and workers' rights.
Project
in Adult Immigrant Education - archivd resources from a
three-year
project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through a grant to
the
Center for Applied Linguistics. The project began in September 1994 and
continued through September 1997.
Self-esteem and
employment - workshop delivered by the Employment Project for
Women,
Inc., Manitoba.
from The Workforce Alliance: Skilling
the American Workforce 'On The Cheap': Ongoing Shortfalls in Federal
Funding
for Workforce Development "...the federal government's
investments
in workforce development programs - particularly those targeting
low-income
adults and youth - have seen significant cuts in recent years. Notable
findings include a near 30% reduction in annual funding
(inflation-adjusted)
for U.S. Department of Labor job training programs since the mid-1980s,
translating into lost opportunities both for a significant number of
American
workers and for U.S. businesses that continue to suffer from shortages
of skilled labor. At the same time, Washington policymakers have
restructured
a number of federal programs so that they are more focused on
short-term
"work first" activities rather than training job-seekers for 21st
century jobs.
Starting
with Women's Lives: Changing Today's Economy - A Facilitator's
Guide to a Visual Workshop Methodology by Suzanne Doerge and
Beverly
Burke, Women's Inter-Church Council of Canada and Canadian Labour
Congress, 2000
Steps
to
Employment in Ontario - series of manuals for teachers and
learners
related to a number of occupations. While some material is
specific
to Ontario, much is adaptable and useful as resource material.
Includes
content as well as supporting skills work.
Taxi
dreams: PBS documentary series - immigrant drivers
"on the road to the American dream."
Teacher's Guide to the Occupational Outlook
Handbook describes hundreds of jobs. For each job, it tells
what workers do, working conditions, the training and education needed,
earnings, and expected job prospects. Job search tips,
information about the job market in each state, articles about specific
occupations and industries, and additional career information are
included.
Whose
economic wellbeing?: A challenge to dominant discourses on the
relationship
between literacy and numeracy skills and (un)employment - (2002)
Paper challenging "common sense understandings of the relationship
between
literacy and numeracy skills and (un)employment." Critical perspectives
to consider in a time of increasingly stringent control over who
learns what. Dr Stephen Black: University of Technology, Sydney
Women
Work! The National Network for Women’s Employmentl,
including job and training locators.
Workers on Film: Los
Trabajadores and the issues
explored
in the film
Work
and Learning Lifelong Network - WALL is a part of the
Initiative for the New Economy, which aims to help Canadians understand
and benefit from the ways in which the global economy is being
transformed.
The Workforce
Paradox for Adults with Limited Literacy and English Language
Proficiency:
A Report from the Field, February, 2003 - A study of the One
Stop
Career Centers in New Mexico and their effectiveness in serving adults
with limited literacy and/or English language skill, conducted in 2002
by the New Mexico Coalition for Literacywith funding from the New
Mexico
Department of Labor.
Workplace
learning at Harvard University - from the Harvard Gazette,
September
28, 2000
Workplace Basic Skills
Network - the UK’s only national organisation dedicated to
workplace
basic skills training
Subject: NLA Info: Turning Skills to Profit
through
Workplace Ed. From: David J Rosen <DJRosen@theworld.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999
A ...study by The Conference Board, ..."Turning Skills into
Profit: Economic Benefits of Workplace Education Programs," answers the
question: what is the return on investment to businesses which have
workplace
education programs? The Conference Board, a business-oriented research
organization whose purpose is to "improve the business enterprise
system
and to enhance the contribution of business to society...interviewed
employers,
employees and union representatives from more than 40 private- and
public-sector
workplaces representing a cross-section of economic sectors throughout
the United States." Interviewees were selected from 45 national
workplace
education projects funded between 1995-1998 by the U.S. Department of
Education,
through its National Workplace Literacy Program.
This report, in no uncertain terms, lists the economic benefits
to employers of Workplace Education Programs: improved quality of work,
better team performance,improved capacity to cope with change in the
workplace,
improved capacity to use new technology, increased output of products
and
services, reduced time per task, reduced error rate, better health and
safety record, reduced waste in production of goods and services,
increased
customer retention, and increased employee retention.
If this is so, one must wonder, why hasn't the business
community
- and especially its various trade associations -- let Congress know
that
workplace education can help them, as well as their employees. Why was
the business community silent at the sunset of the workplace education
program?
Those of you who believe that the public sector should be
involved
in helping business (especially small-to-medium-sized businesses) and
organized
labor to start workplace education programs, may wish to get copies of
this report and me sure the business community in your state sees it.
You
may wish to ask business and labor to support the creation of a new
federally-funded
workplace education program, one which continues to require a
partnership
approach of business, labor and education providers, and which
continues
to require that large companies increasingly and ultimately pick up all
of the program costs, but which recognizes that small businesses and
labor-sponsored
programs may need ongoing public support.
The 15-page report, Turning
Skills into Profit: Economic Benefits of Workplace Education Programs,
is [also] available from the Conference Board, 845 Third Avenue, New
York,
NY 10022; [the report can be downloaded in PDF format]. [summary: National
Institute for Literacy Policy Update New Reports Underscore
Importance of Literacy ]
Workers.gov - Connects
to government resources for workers on nine categories including jobs,
learning, family and health, as well as rights and protections.
Workers' Educational Association
- the UK's largest voluntary provider of adult learning opportunities.
Workforce Education
special
collection - Southern LINCS collection of resources related to
workforce learning and teaching
Workforce Strategy Center
and ABE Career Connections
Workforce Strategies Initiative
- resources for practitioners
Working simulations
- includes, to a date, an office training program teaching basic
workplace
skills within a simulated working environment.
Workplace
and
Vocational
ESL Digests from ERIC and the National Clearinghouse for ESL
Literacy
Education / Cemter for Adult English Language Instruction
Workplace
Basic
Skills : a teacher's guide for community based literacy
programs
- Lynette Sarah Plett 1962
Workplace
Basic Skills.com - site containing workplace basic skills
information,
tools and advice for employers who want to raise their employees skill
levels; developed by the Conference Board with funding from the US
Department
of Education.
Workplace Diversity
- free to job seekers; fee-for-service for employers -- job search site
geared towards diverse people seeking employment in a range of
occupations.
Workplace education
resources from Connecticut's Adult Training and Development
Network
Workplace
educational resources from the National Adult Literacy Database
Workplace
ESL Online
Workplace
Literacy Annotated Bibliography by Perrine Robinson-Geller.
Workplace
Literacy
and Basic Skills - by Sue (Waugh) Folinsbee, Published by the
National
Literacy Secretariat Ottawa, Ontario KlA 1K5 December l990 Updated
December
1994.
Workplace
Literacy: Employment Issues for the Adult Learner with Learning
Disabilities
- Spring 1995. Volume 2, Number 1. Newsletter of the National Adult
Literacy
& Learning Disabilities Center.
Workplace literacy resources
from the National Adult Literacy Database, Canaday
WorkWorld
Resources
Database
- WorkWorld Resources Network is a resource collection of programs,
documents,
and personnel in the areas of workplace ESL and skills training,
including
vocational ESL, applied science and math ESL, and school-to-work
transition
issues for language minority and out-of-school youth.
Rhode Island resources
Amos
Culinary Education Program, on-the-job training
at the RI
Community Kitchen
Institute
for Labor Studies and Research - workplace literacy and
related
offerings and support
Rhode
Island Department of Labor and Training
Links to job listings, information and career
education and job tainingand programs in the state and beyond.
Certified Training Programs -
compiliation of proprietary programs on the DLT site
RI DLT
Labor Market Information for business and reserach
Rhode
Island
Jobs with Justice Education Project - RI Jobs with Justice is
a
coalition of labor unions, community organizations, and faith-based
groups
fighting for workers’ rights and economic justice in Rhode
Island.
RI JwJ was formed in 1996 after the demonstrated need to fight
together,
in solidarity, to win real victories for workers in Rhode Island.
Rhode
Island
Workforce Literacy Collaborative - collaborative with the
mission
of creating a framework for an ongoing, comprehensive, seamless system
for delivering adult workforce literacy services in Rhode Island.
updated March 31, 2008
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