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Download full textTaylor, Maurice – 1995
Presented in case study format, this report looks at different types of workplace literacy programs across Canada. It describes in some detail 10 particular work environments and the unique characteristics that have enabled each to offer quality worker education programs. Each case study provides information in these categories: profile (an…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Employer Employee Relationship, Foreign Countries
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. – 1993
This publication, which is based on the experiences gained in a workplace literacy program for learning-disabled workers at a paper factory in Massachusetts, is designed as a beginners' guide to identifying and addressing issues of learning disabilities in the adult education classroom. Section 1 defines the term "learning disability,"…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Reading Programs, Classroom Techniques
Darville, Richard – 1991
Ways that workplace literacy programs can be made to work and the circumstances or forces that promote or hinder them are discussed, based on experiences in Vancouver, British Columbia, where 26 percent of the population is minority and 20 percent of the 8,000 city employees speak English as a Second Language. The story documented in this report…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Foreign Countries
Lyons, Nona; Evans, Linda – 1997
The Portfolio Project was conducted to promote lifelong, self-directed learning in the workplace. The project, which offered courses on basic skills, supervisory communications, and English as a second language, was initiated as a literacy demonstration project by the Casco Bay Partnership (CBP), which brought together government, educators, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Case Studies, Education Work Relationship, Independent Study
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1993
CertainTeed's Precision Strike training program was designed to close the gaps between the current status of its workplace and where that work force needed to be to compete successfully in global markets. Precision Strike included Skills and Knowledge in Lifelong Learning (SKILL) customized, computerized lessons in basic skills, one-on-one…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Content Area Reading, Guides
Norris, Cynthia Zylkuski; Breen, Patricia K. – 1990
A description is provided of the Lower Merrimack Valley Workplace Education Project (WEP), an educational project that offers English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and job-specific education classes to hourly employees in the Semiconductor Division of Alpha Industries. The challenge of the project was to create a WEP that could accommodate the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, English (Second Language), Industrial Training
Push Literacy Action Now, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1992
PLAN, Inc., a nonprofit, community-based literacy training program, conducted a workplace literacy training program in partnership with the Washington (D.C.) Hospital Center (WHC). During an 18-month period, the program provided workplace literacy training and career development skills to employees in several service departments and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Hospital Personnel
Boyter-Escalona, Margaret – 1998
The Worker Education Program (WEP) provided workplace programs for 1,000 members of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE) in Chicago, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. It was sponsored by a partnership among the Chicago Teachers' Center of Northeastern Illinois University, the Central States Joint Board of UNITE, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, English (Second Language), Job Skills
New Jersey State Employment and Training Commission, Trenton. – 1998
A New Jersey Task Force on Adult Literacy recommended ways to improve the literacy delivery system for adults. This report and its recommendations focus on improving coordinated interagency planning and accountability to increase governmental efficiency, and on advancing the employability and self-sufficiency of the three million low-literate…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential
Stein, Sondra G. – 1989
The Massachusetts Workplace Education Initiative was established in 1986 to create 6 model workplace literacy education programs and later expanded, with state and federal funding, to more than 20 programs at over 40 worksites. The initiative was developed in response to the growing recognition of functional illiteracy in an increasingly complex…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Federal Aid, Inplant Programs, Labor Education
Basic Skills Agency, London (England). – 1996
The aim of the Basic Skills at Work Program was to help improve the competence of the work force in England and Wales in basic literacy, numeracy, and communication skills. Of the 82 Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) in England and Wales, 73 participated. Surveys of basic skills requirements as perceived by local employers indicated that…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Advisory Committees, Basic Skills
Champaign County Board of Education, Urbana, OH. – 1995
The Champaign County (Ohio) Board of Education asked four companies to participate in a workplace literacy project: Hall Company, Grimes Aerospace, LewiSystems, and Comdyne. Companies supplied training facilities and paid release time for employee participants. Seventeen classes were completed; 13 were attended by recruited participants, 4 by…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Corporate Support, Job Skills
Parkway School District, Chesterfield, MO. – 1994
Project REACH (Regional Education to Achieve with Company) was a regional workplace literacy (WL) program designed to increase the levels of literacy, job performance/satisfaction/retention, productivity, and self-esteem of the work force of six businesses in the Saint Louis area and to foster the development of business-education partnerships for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Individualized Instruction, Learning Centers (Classroom)
Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI. Coll. of Education. – 1997
Project ALERT (Adult Literacy Enhanced & Redefined through Training) was a 3-year effort to develop and deploy a number of innovative approaches to delivering workplace literacy programs to business partners, including manufacturers and unions. The project designed, developed, and implemented workplace literacy programs tailored to the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Diffusion (Communication), Educational Innovation, Information Dissemination
Enterprise State Junior Coll., AL. – 1992
In April 1991, Enterprise State Junior College and MacArthur State Technical College established a rural workplace literacy demonstration project in partnership with adult basic education, seven employers, and a labor organization. The project served 615 persons in classes offered at the 2 colleges, 4 partner locations, and 3 additional worksites.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Ancillary School Services, Basic Skills
