CVA / English Web Watch
Each month, the Canadian Vocational Association presents a survey of relevant links and documents on various specializations and topics related to the field. Please don't hesitate to send your comments and suggestions to info@cva-acfp.org.
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Integrating Essential Skills Training into the Workplace
This guide is designed to help employers and practitioners develop essential skills training for the workplace. (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)) |
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Working with Others Tip Sheet
This document offers tips for improving the skills needed to work effectively with other people. (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)) |
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Sector Council Essential Skills Initiatives - Case Studies
The authors outline essential skills initiatives carried out by five sector councils: the Construction Sector Council; the Canadian Trucking Human Resources Council; the Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council; the Canadian Automotive Repair and Service Council; and the Canadian Council of Fish Harvesters. (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)) |
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Continuous Learning Self-Assessment
The first section measures how effective an individual is at expanding his ability to learn by upgrading his skills and increasing his knowledge. The second section, on personal development, requires the respondent to identify both his strengths and the areas where his numeracy skills need improvement. (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)) |
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WEBMINAR. Developing Leadership Qualities in Employees!
When your employees are given an opportunity to climb up the corporate ladder, they will work hard to prove their mettle. They will also tend to make a special effort to take appropriate steps to deal with deficiencies in their performance and gain new skills. This will improve their productivity and eventually help you reach your targets. (CommLab) |
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Teacher Education through Open and Distance Learning
This report examines the application of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) to meet the urgent need for more teachers. ODL, with the use of innovative in-formation and communication technologies and media, can train teachers more readily than conventional approaches. However, adopting ODL requires new thinking about learning and teaching strategies, applications, costs and other practicalities. (Commonwealth of Learning) |
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Using What We Know: Turning Organizational Knowledge into Team Performance
This paper examines when and how project teams' use of knowledge previously codified and stored in the organization affects team performance. (Harvard Business School) |
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Workplace ‘learning’ and adult education. Messy objects, blurry maps and making difference
This article reviews diverse representations of learning evident among published accounts of workplace learning across fields such as adult education, human resource development, management and organisation studies. The discussion critically addresses the question of how to mediate a multiplicity of definitional, ideological and purposive orientations. P 79 (European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults) |
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Changing patterns of working, learning and career development across Europe
This research examines continuing vocational training from the perspective of how individual careers are developing across Europe. In particular, the European Commission was seeking to get a better understanding of the different kinds of continuing training workers engage with and the role that work itself plays in individuals’ skills and competence development. (European Commission-EFA) |
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Good practice in involving employers in work-related education and training
This survey set out to determine the benefits of employers’ involvement in government-funded work-related education and training, and to identify the features of good practice and the ways in which provision could be further improved. (Facts for Life network) |
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Related report. Good practice in involving employers in work-related education and training
This survey set out to determine the benefits of employers’ involvement in government-funded work-related education and training, to identify the features of good practice and the ways in which the provision could be further improved. (Ofsted) |
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Learning from the best: examples of best practice from providers of apprenticeships in underperforming vocational areas
This good practice report examines the work of 39 providers of work-based learning, including independent learning providers, employer providers and colleges. The report describes the factors which contributed to sustaining high numbers, or increasing the numbers, of apprentices completing their qualifications, and to improving the time taken for them to do this. (Ofsted) |
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Performance Management Process
When consideration is given to target setting for individuals, it should also be borne in mind that those individuals will have aims that are not just work related. Indeed their priorities are much more likely to revolve around such issues as promotion prospects, pay, recognition, time-off, lifestyle, relations with colleagues and the boss. (MBA Knowledge Management) |
