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Built in, not bolted on: an information kit for language, literacy and numeracy practitioners, training managers, industry trainers about language, literacy and numeracy issues in the delivery of training packages
This revised edition builds upon the initial work of the 1998 edition by linking the information about the way language, literacy and numeracy have been incorporated into Training Packages with implementation, delivery and assessment issues. This edition takes the 'givens' from the first edition (the training reform agenda, the NQF, training packages), and explicitly illuminates the connections between teachers of language, literacy and numeracy (workplace communication skills trainers), and how Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) and enterprise RTOs can work together to provide inclusion of these skills with training package delivery.
Stucture
Chapters 1-4 cover some of the same themes as the first edition but with more detail or tips on how teachers, trainers and assessors can come to grips with training packages and their responsibilitiles to language, literacy and numeracy (LL&N) within them. Chapter 5 covers customisation of training packages and the roles that language, literacy and numeracy professionals can play in successfully achieving this. Chapter 6 is an excellent case study of an LL&N practitioner in a workplace with lots of practical examples on needs analysis, planning, delivery and assessment, as well as the broader consultancy role these practitioners have to offer within the organisation - all of this without compromising principled adult education principles of relevant, context based material and delivery practices. This is a must read for all LL&N professionals moving into workplace practice as well as RTOs delivering workplace training packages.
Editorial details
Author: Bradley, Sharon; Parker, Penny; Perisce, Sue; Thatcher, Judy.
Corporate author: Australian National Training Authority (ANTA).
Imprint: Melbourne: ANTA, 2000. iv, 60 p.
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Communication in the Workplace
This resource was developed to help assist people with language, literacy and numeracy (LLN issues undertaking any training program that includes the accredited unit ’Communication in the Workplace’.
The resource contains Trainers Notes, Learners Notes, Level 1 Activities and Level 2 Activities booklets.
Editorial details
Barkuma Incorporated.
Availability
- Peter Wilkes
Barcuma Inc.
Level 1 / 260 Currie Street
Adelaide SA 5001
Website: www.barkuma.com.au
Cost
Free electronic copy available from Barkuma’s website.
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Creating a virtual team environment: WebCT & Creating a virtual team environment: First Class
This kit includes a trainer's guide, a trainee's guide and a trainee's workbook designed to support the delivery of training through an online learning environment using web course tools (WebCT) groupware. The main goal of the training is to assist trainees to enhance their participation in teamwork and their understanding of the value of teams in industry through the creation of a virtual team of the course participants. The trainee guide provides some very simple explanations of key terms including WebCT, the Internet, using a browser, participating in online tutorials, and how to use Bulletin boards and private email. It offers learning activities mapped against competencies from the Textile, Clothing and Footwear training package and the National Reporting System (NRS). The trainee workbook provides information and activities designed to build the trainees awareness of the importance of teams and the characteristics of effective teams.
Editorial details
Corporate author: Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE. Faculty of Further Education. Industry and Initiatives Unit (FEIIU).
Imprint: Melbourne: Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE, 2002. various pagings.
Availability
Cost
Purchase price:
- Trainer workbook $11.00 plus postage and handling
- Trainee workbook $13.20 plus postage and handling.
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Doing WELL in the West: a practical guide to planning and running WELL training in Western Australia
This manual has been designed to inform project coordinators and trainers new to the field of Workplace English Language and Literacy (WELL) training, and provide some context to the issues of workplace training and strategies for the new trainer. The manual has nine sections:
The first seven sections are:
- Background
- Initial groundwork
- Applying for funds
- Preparatory stages
- Planning the training
- Conducting training
- Reports and financials.
These include a detailed section which provides background and case study examples of the section's related issues.
The 'How to' section gives specific information on how to perform some of the requisite WELL trainer tasks:
- how to write a tender
- navigate the new environment
- focus on the workplace's goals
- link tasks to training packages
- build a workforce profile
- promote a project.
The final section offers a Toolkit containing models, templates and checklists for adaptation.
Editorial details
Author: Saunders, Rebecca; Pearson, Geoff.
Imprint: Attadale, W.A.: Agenda Communication, 2003. vi, 155 p.
Availability
- WELL Coordinator
DEEWR WA State Office
Loc 301
GPO Box 9880
Perth WA 6000
Ph: 133 873
Fax: 08 9464 4039
Email: wellwa@deewr.gov.au
Cost
Purchase price: free.
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Get set to work with the GST: a literacy and numeracy resource
This book is designed to help people who need to develop literacy and numeracy skills to work with the Goods and Services Tax (GST). It provides practice exercises and answers and uses examples from four different fields: retail, automotive sales, service and repair, hospitality, and asset maintenance, and addresses units of competency in the training packages relating to these industries. The book is divided into three parts:
- The ideas in the GST
- The jobs in the GST
- The maths in the GST.
It provides worksheets, workplace documents, worked examples of how to calculate GST and an introduction to terminology used in the GST. The resource is likely to be useful to anyone struggling to understand the GST and needing to use it to operate their business.
Editorial details
Author: Wardle, Jill
Imprint: Melbourne: AMES Consulting, 2002. vi, 202 p.
Availability
Cost
Purchase price: $27.50 (including GST).
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Improving Communication in the Workplace
This report identifies strategies and makes recommendations that are aimed at improving the participation rate by Australian manufacturing sector workers in basic literacy and numeracy programs. The project objective is to facilitate greater participation of employers and workers in further development, and contribute to a culture of life long learning.It is hoped that the increase in foundation skills for workers will contribute to efficiencies in the way industries handle innovation and technology in the future.
Editorial Details
Manufacturing & Engineering Skills Advisory Board Inc.
Availability
- Mr. Casey van Berkel
Principal Consultant
Tilburg Consulting Pty Ltd.
45 South Beach,
Torquay, VIC 3228
Ph/Fax: 0352614326
Email: caseyvb@bigpond.com
Cost
Free electronic copy:
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'Let's work together to get back to work': a guide to making a claim for workers compensation and returning to work: implementation guide
The guide offers explanations and strategies to enable employees with language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) needs to improve their understandings of the WorkCover system and to give step by step instructions to making a claim for workers compensation and returning to work. A key aspect is a flow chart which documents the process of rehabilitation and the return to work in 6 easy-to-follow steps:
- When you are injured as a result of work and cannot do your normal job
- Claim for workers compensation
- Rehabilitation
- Plan your return to work
- Return to work
- More information.
Colour coded sections enables employees to refer to each stage of the process they're in, and there are Help pages at the end of each section. The document is consistently formatted to assist the employee to deal with each step of the process, covering what their and their employer's responsibilities are, who else can be involved, the role of the Case Manager and the names of the forms required for completion. The help section includes:
- glossary details
- practical exercises
- key statements and questions
- a reference list of relevant people that may be able to help the injured employee.
Editorial details
Imprint: Adelaide: Adelaide Institute of TAFE. Workplace Education Service, 2004. 44 p.
Availability
Cost
Purchase price: free.
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Starting Trade Maths
This resource is a set of trade-related mathematics resources and accompanying strategies for trainers. It aims to assist trade mathematics trainers and support staff to increase entry points (in terms of ability level) from which students can pass trade courses, using up-to-date numeracy education theories and practice.
Editorial Details
This resource has been developed by Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE.
Availability
Cost
$15.00 per CD.
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The Grammar Disc (DVD ROM)
This unique interactive product has been developed for Deaf people to improve their workplace reading and writing skills in English. The material depends entirely on visual representations with instruction provided in Australian Sign Language with optional captions and voiceover to allow access to other learners and trainers. The material focuses on the basics of English grammar and shows how key grammar rules operate in various work related applications. Each lesson provides exercies to practice the rules and skills taught. The resource also provides other learning tools including a glossary of grammar terms and signs, as well as a tense reference.
For further information visit: www.thegrammardisc.net.au
Editorial details
Author: Geoff Pearson
Publisher: WestOne Services, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-74205-386-8
Availability
Cost
$55.00 inc GST.
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Welcome to work
This is a video cassette and accompanying guide depicting what an office looks like, the type of work people do and the way people work together. The guide describes the various ways the resource can be used. It identifies teaching strategies, includes sets of questions and discussion topics, highlights language and literacy issues and provides additional activities. The kit is intended for people in pre-vocational training, those who need assistance with language and literacy, those for whom English is a second language, those preparing to re-enter the workforce, and those with little knowledge of a business environment.
Editorial details
Melbourne: Aspire Training and Consulting, 2003. 53 p. + video cassette (20 mins.).
Availability
Cost
Purchase price: $45.95 (including GST).
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Well trained: workplace training and you
This CD ROM contains four individual training resources, each relating to a different industry:
- aged care
- food processing
- asset maintenance
- manufacturing.
Each resource works on both a generic and a specific level. The target audience is comprised of: experienced Workplace English Language and Literacy (WELL) program practitioners moving to a new industry; practitioners new to the WELL program; WELL practitioners and content experts jointly involved in program delivery; and workplace trainers delivering accredited training. The resource aims to give practitioners practical examples of training programs that can be contextualised to suit their particular workplace. The resource supports:
- The Community services training package (CHC02)
- The Asset maintenance training package (PRM04)
- The Food processing industry training package (FDF03)
- The Pulp and paper manufacturing industries training package (FPP01).
Editorial details
Corporate author: Linda Wyse and Associates.
Imprint: Richmond, Vic.: Linda Wyse and Associates, 2005. CD ROM.
Availability
Cost
Purchase price: only postage and handling.
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Working Safely
This package consists of notes for trainers, learning workbooks and activity sheets that incorporate adult literacy and numeracy skills with accredited training. It is aligned with the unit ‘follow safe working policies and procedures’ (LMFCR0001B), common to many training packages.
Editorial Details
The resource has been developed by Barkuma Training.
Availability
Cost
The resource can be accessed free of charge at the website.
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Workplace health and safety: online training resource kit
This is an on-line version of the original print version of the Workplace health and safety: training resource kit (ARIS res. no. 969) which provides trainees with more flexibility when learning at the same time as gaining some computer and online experience. Most of the training exercises are click and drag tasks but there are some activities which require writing. Addressing an identified shortfall in relevant resources on occupational health and safety for teacher/trainers working with learners with limited English language and/or literacy skills, this package offers some excellent materials for the development of training around content relating to health and safety in the workplace. It has been designed as a self-access resource, incorporating workplace activities, listening tasks and writing exercises. The topics covered include:
- The Safety Law
- Health and hygiene
- Recognising safety hazards
- Manual handling
- Hazardous substances
- Noise in the workplace
- Machine and equipment safety
- Personal protective equipment
- Working in confined spaces
- Emergency procedures
- Claims management and rehabilitation
- Workplace Bullying and Harrasment.
The curriculum developers have obviously considered in detail, ways of building up the context and knowledge base of the learners, devising simple but effective pre-training survey questions, which enable the resource user to focus on particular aspects of health and safety relevant to them. The resource uses effective graphics to emphasise the points being made. The package was developed for use nationally, as well as for a specific group of learners at Bridgestone TG Australia.
Editorial details
Author: Chan-Lee, Wing-Yin; Purcell, Doug; Owen, Sheila.
Imprint: Adelaide: Adelaide Institute of TAFE. Workplace Education Service and the Vocational Preparatation Department, 2000.
Availability
Cost
Purchase price: free.
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Writing successful tenders
Written to assist people new to the 'game', (those who've done it for a while without as much success as they'd like) or people with lower levels of literacy and numeracy, this book provides information on the business of writing tenders. The resource looks at the steps in involved including:
- setting yourself up to write a tender
- deciding whether to tender
- reading the tender documents
- completing calculations and budgeting.
Within each of these sections there are small business case studies, checklists for starting a small business and calculating running costs, information regarding legal status, licensing requirements and legislative compliance, tender types and what they mean, knowing the differences between being a contractor and an employee, and how to find and use business resources to help. This could be an invaluable tool for small business classes, workers wanting to take advantage of tendering and contacting processes, and individuals wanting to reflect on, or update their tender writing skills.
Editorial details
Author: Fitzpatrick, Lynne; McKenna, Rosa; Dickson, David.
Imprint: West Melbourne, Vic.: Communication in Education and Training (COMMET), 2000. 29 p.
Availability
Cost
Purchase price: free.
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