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Practical PIAAC - Continuing the Conversation (2014) - Slides

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On November 25th, 2014, the CLN hosted a webinar featuring Brigid Hayes and Tracy Defoe Brigid and Tracy continued the conversation begun in Edmonton last September at Practical PIAAC: What Alberta...
Pan-Canadian PIAAC Results Report (2012)

https://calp.ca/resources/pan-canadian-piaac-results-report-2012.htm
This report presents the first results of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), an initiative of OECD. PIAAC provides internationally comparable measures of three skills...
TIES - Literacy Content Bank

https://calp.ca/resources/ties-literacy-content-bank.htm
Our mission as the Literacy Centre of Expertise is to be a collaborative hub and information centre supporting ESL literacy service providers in Calgary, Alberta and beyond. Through collaboration, we serve...
Essential Skills Applied to Everyday Living and Workplace Learning

https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=606
Essential Skills in Everyday Living Supporting adult learners in developing their essential skills is often as simple as identifying tasks and activities from their everyday lives and helping them...
Assessing Learning

https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=645
Why do I Assess a Learner? Assessment is not about testing. We use various assessment methods and tools to help us know if we're heading down the right path with a particular learner and whether that...
Addressing Financial Barriers

https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=669
There are many different types of financial support available to adult learners, from student loans, grants and bursaries, to government subsidies and tax exemptions. Financial Aid Programs for Learners Student...
Indigenous and Mainstream Learning Styles

https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=757
Because the exploration of land, identity, story, and language is something that can be very complex and potentially controversial (not to mention the issues of making these cultural teachings fundable...
Learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential and relational

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Indigenous learning is always more profound when it is put into the context of how it will affect learners’ lives, help their families, and improve their community. Students may not want to be involved...
Learning requires the exploration of one’s identity

https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=765
The idea that learning requires the exploration of one’s identity can be a difficult concept to incorporate into our programs when we are funded to develop foundational literacy skills. Alberta’s Community...
Getting Started

https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=772
When you think about engaging volunteers for your organization, what is the first thing that pops into your head? Or maybe you have a different thought? How you react may have something to do with your...
Acknowledgements

https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=790
The Centre for Family Literacy and the Community Learning Network would like to thank all the CALP staff, volunteers and practitioners who contributed their expertise and experience to the development...
3. The Liberal Approach: Culture & Critical Thinking

https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=859
Cultural knowledge and critical thinking skills have long been seen as being at the centre of our western culture and democracy. A liberal education has long been assumed to be what is meant when someone...
5. The Social Justice (Radical) Approach

https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=861
Paulo Freire is often considered the most influential adult educator of the 20th century. His work has been called “radical” by some, “liberating” or “liberatory” by others. His adult literacy...
Bow Valley Adult Learninng Centre - Human Resource Policy

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This is the HR policy from Bow Valley Adult Learning Centre. All are welcome to use as a sample.
The Bristol School Movement: Setting the stage for organized literacy education

https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=919
In February 1812, the local Auxiliary of the Methodists’ Bible Society was holding its second annual meeting in the port city of Bristol, England. The Society was discussing how they had been giving...
The Basics of How to Instruct Technology

https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=1054
“Everyone is learning digital skills, no one knows everything, and technology will inevitably have problems…positive growth and learning…comes from persisting through challenges and issues.” (page...
Understanding your Canadian Language Benchmarks Placement Test Assessment (CLBPT) Report

https://calp.ca/resources/understanding-your-canadian-language-benchmarks-placement-test-assessment-clbpt-report.htm
This flyer may be handed out to CLBPT test-takers and others who may be interested in what CLBPT results mean. The flyer "Understanding your CLBPT Assessment Report" has also been translated into 12 languages....
Canadian Language Benchmark Support Kit

https://calp.ca/resources/canadian-language-benchmark-support-kit.htm
Background information and further explanatinos of the CLB document. Also holds supporting exemplars. This may not be a book you need to print out, but it is a good resource to access digitally. ESL Key...
Canadian Language Benchmarks Support Kit

https://calp.ca/resources/canadian-language-benchmarks-support-kit.htm
The kit includes: an orientation to the CLB; in-depth discussions on incorporating grammar, pronunciation, and pragmatics into CLB-based programs (as requested by instructors using the CLB); sections...
NorQuest Foundational Reading and Writing Modules

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NorQuest Foundational Reading and Writing modules are designed to teach literacy skills to learners fluent in English or at a Canadian Language Benchmark of 5. They focus on reading comprehension and...