1. Promoting Provincial Partnerships: Motivation, Process and Outcomes
Ontario Native Literacy Coalition

2. Promoting Provincial Partnerships: Motivation, Process and Outcomes
HRSDC funded
Ontario Advisory Committee – partner organization membership
Provincial Working Group – one member per partner organization

3. Provincial Working Group
Irene Blayney – CESBA
Sandra Hennessey – CSC
Nida Home Doherty – ONLC
Mary-Ann Stark – CLO

4. Project Overview
document how effective cross-sectoral partnerships are identified and developed
outline challenges and benefits
discover best practices
Essential Skills training as vehicle

5. Partnership Terms of Reference Mission, Vision and Values Baseline Surveys – partnership, Essential Skills Surveys – to be re-administered at final meeting Final report – process, challenges, benefits, best practices, next steps
Product – Workbook
Self-directed and face-to-face ES familiarization based on survey
Chapter identification and assignment
Workbook template development
Editor and desktop publisher identified
Drafts, edits – some in final form (case studies and tools development underway)
Publication date – June 2008

6. Seven Grandfather Teachings
WISDOM
LOVE
RESPECT
BRAVERY HONESTY
HUMILITY
TRUTH

7. Challenges Perceived at project start up:
organizational culture preventing full participation
initial investment of time, resources and staff
differences in operational requirements
potential “scrutiny” by partners
fear of unknown
requirement to work in new ways
increased communication requirements
increased need for flexibility and compromise
competition between stakeholders
lack of trust
potential for shared PD funding base

8. Benefits Perceived at project start up:
increased opportunity for/wider collaboration
improved transition of learners
establishment of new network or forum
increased opportunity for staff training and PD
decreased cost for staff training and PD
enhanced practitioner confidence
increased funding opportunities
better support at the local level
improved ES training for learners
levelling of the playing field
frontline connections

9. Chapters 7 & 8 may be collapsed
The Workbook
Chapter Title
1 Introduction
2 Essential Skills Background and History
3 Introduction to Essential Skills
4 Essential Skills Profiles
5 Using ES and Profiles With Your Learners
6 Other ES Resources
7 Additional ES Stories and Case Studies
8 Summary
Appendices
Chapters 7 & 8 may be collapsed

10. Introduction to Essential Skills
Essential Skills are:
‘enabling’ skills that help people perform tasks required by their jobs
skills that provide workers with a foundation for learning other skills
skills that enhance the ability to adapt to change
skills people use to carry out a wide variety of everyday life and occupational tasks
skills needed for work, learning and life
are not technical skills
Essential Skills are the Velcro to which other training sticks.

11. Introduction to Essential Skills…
There are 9 Essential Skills:
Reading Text
Document Use
Writing
Numeracy
Oral Communication
Thinking Skills
Working with Others
Computer Use
Continuous Learning

12. Essential Skills Profiles
Government has profiled the Essential Skills requirements for all C and D NOC job classifications
Each profile provides detailed information about how Essential Skills are used by workers in that job classification
Skill descriptions include the measure or complexity at which the skill is used
By 2009 all job classifications will have been profiled
Profiles are an important Essential Skills tool
Profiles can be found at

14. Measuring Essential Skills
International Adult Literacy Survey 500-point scale
HRSDC 5-level scale

15. Comparing ES Complexity Levels
IALS 500-Point Scale
ES Complexity Level
LBS Level
Prose Literacy
Reading Text, Writing, Oral Communication
Level 1
Communications
Levels 1 - 3
Level 2
Levels 4 - 5
Document Literacy
Document Use, Computer Use
Quantitative Literacy
Numeracy, Thinking Skills
Numeracy
226 – 275
Level 4
Adapted from Ministry of Educaton and Training - Learning Outcomes Matrix

16. Essential Skills Complexity Levels

17. Find the Ace of Hearts in the deck of cards

18. Locate – Complexity Level 1
LOCATE and direct match
“One and done”

19. Find the 4 Aces in the deck of cards

20. Cycle – Complexity Level 2
Direct match and locate, locate, locate
otherwise known as CYCLE
Increased time is required to complete the task
“Two or more locates”

21. Find all the diamonds ♦ and place the cards in order from Ace (low) to King (high)

22. Integrate – Complexity Level 3/4
Multiple locates of ♦’s (cycle) and then
sequencing in order between Ace and King.
Increased time required and information
needs to be integrated to complete the task.
INTEGRATE

23. Identify the highest scoring hand for each of the 3 most popular card games in North America

24. Generate – Complexity Level 4/5
Locate, cycle, integrate and generate require
an increasing amount of “brain power”.
“Prior knowledge” is required to complete the
task.

25. Connection to IALS Scale
Level 1 - Locate
Level 2 - Cycle
Level 3/4 - Integrate
Level 4/5 - Generate

26. Recognizing Essential Skills
Review of Essential Skills and definitions:
Reading Text
Document Use
Writing
Numeracy
Oral Communication
Thinking Skills
Working with Others
Computer Use
Continuous Learning

27. Recognizing Essential Skills
Volunteer?
Share one of your tasks that involves the
application of 3 or more of the Essential Skills.

28. Re-cap – The Project
Partnership project involving CSC, CESBA, CLO and ONLC
Project report will include challenges, benefits and best practices
Essential Skills as the vehicle to develop a partnership – workbook available June 2008

29. Re-cap – Essential Skills
The 9 Essential Skills are the foundation for
learning other skills. They enhance one’s
ability to adapt to change and are needed
for work, learning and life.
They are the Velcro to which other training
sticks.

30. Re-cap – Essential Skills
Essential Skills Profiles, describing how
each of the Essential Skills are used and at
what complexity level, are available free
many Canadian occupations. All
occupations will be profiled by 2009.
Profiles are available at:

31. Re-cap – Essential Skills
Essential Skills are applied at various
complexity levels. A simplified way of
thinking about complexity levels:
Level 1 – Locate
Level 2 – Cycle
Level 3/4 – Integrate
Level 4/5 – Generate

33. Questions?
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