Essential Skills in Apprenticeship

”Essential Skills in Apprenticeship”, a dialogue hosted by CAF-FCA on February 24, 2011, opened with panel presentations. Guests representing various stakeholders from across Canada, including school boards, provincial and federal government departments, unions, industry associations and other organizations, joined the CAF-FCA Board of Directors to discuss some of the best and most promising practices for integrating Essential Skills training into employee development, particularly for apprentices and within the skilled trades. To learn more, view the PowerPoint presentations or read the summary.

Improving Success Rates In First Year Technical Training
– TOWES/CCA, Bow Valley College


Essential Skills Resources and Tools
– Canadian Automotive Repair and Service Sector Council


Essential Skills in Apprenticeship
– Construction Sector Council


Essential Skills in Apprenticeship
– Office of Literacy and Essential Skills


Manitoba’s Essential Skills for Apprenticeship
– Essential Skills and Recognition of Prior Learning, Manitoba Entrepreneurship, Training and Trade


ITA Essential Skills Initiative: Increasing Apprenticeship Success
– Labour Supply Initiatives, Industry Training Authority


Integrated Process for Essential Skills Development
– Association of Canadian Community Colleges (diagram)


Resources Database
– National Adult Literacy Database

The opinions expressed in these PowerPoint presentations and in the summary document do not necessarily represent the views or official policies of the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum – Forum canadien sur l’apprentissage (CAF–FCA) or other agencies or organizations that may have provided support, financial or otherwise, for this project.

For more information on our dialogues or to register, please contact:

Danielle Matheusik
Project Manager
danielle_matheusik@caf-fca.org