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Essential Learning Skills

Essential Learning Skills. The 9 skills required to successfully participate in the Canadian labour market. Why do we need to know….

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Essential Learning Skills

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  1. Essential Learning Skills The 9 skills required to successfully participate in the Canadian labour market.

  2. Why do we need to know… • Earlier work in Canada, the United States, Australia and Great Britain had identified a set of skills that were used in virtually all occupations. We call these "essential skills".

  3. How were they determined? • The ESRP conducted 3,000 interviews to provide information on what these skills looked like in a broad range of jobs. • The workers interviewed were identified by their employers as performing their job in a fully satisfactory manner.

  4. Reading Text • Reading materials in the form of sentences or paragraphs. • Scan for information. • Skim for overall meaning. • Integrate information from a variety of sources.

  5. Document Use refers to tasks that involve a variety of information displays in which words, numbers, icons and other visual characteristics (eg., line, colour, shape) are given meaning by their spatial arrangement. For example, graphs, lists, tables, blueprints, schematics, drawings, signs and labels are documents used in the world of work. Document Use

  6. Numeracy • Numeracy refers to the workers' use of numbers and their being required to think in quantitative terms.

  7. Writing Writing includes: • writing texts and writing in documents (for example, filling in forms) • non-paper-based writing (for example, typing on a computer)

  8. Oral Communication • Oral Communication pertains primarily to the use of speech to give and exchange thoughts and information by workers in an occupational group.

  9. Working with Others • Examines how employees work with others to carry out tasks. • Having the ability to work independently, with a partner. • To work as a leader or as a member of a team.

  10. Thinking Skills • This involves the process of evaluating ideas or information and making a decision. • This would include problem solving, decision making, critical thinking etc…

  11. Computer Use • The variety and complexity of computer use within the occupational group.

  12. Continuous Learning • Continuous Learning examines the requirement for workers in an occupational group to participate in an ongoing process of acquiring skills and knowledge.

  13. Time to look at the government website. • http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/workplaceskills/LES/videos/videos.shtml

  14. You are each assigned to a group We are going to look at a variety of occupations Where would you use your skill as a student?

  15. How would we use your essential skill as a… Entrepreneur

  16. How would we use your essential skill as a… Lawyer

  17. How would we use your essential skill as a… Chef

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