Essential Skills for Trades Learners Facilitator's Guide
Odette Lloyd, Community Learning Network
Edson’s experience in rural central Alberta suggests that weak literacy in some of the nine Essential Skills discourages capable adults from entering, or even considering the apprenticeship system. These factors also restrict some working apprentices’ ability to progress through the stages towards their journeyman/red seal designation. This increases their vulnerability to stress, job loss, unemployment or underemployment. Productivity and retention are the foundations of success for local employers, so Essential Skills deficits represent a significant challenge. First, workplace productivity is compromised, and second, otherwise competent workers are either pooled at the bottom of their organizations, or are terminated.
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