Canada Post Corporation’s Learning Institute is developing the generic employability skills of all its employees and improving employees’ job performance by increasing its emphasis on education and training, and aligning the corporation’s learning programs with its business strategies and culture.
This is a background paper for a roundtable meeting hosted by The Conference Board of Canada in Toronto, Ontario, in 2001, to look the need to build and sustain a culture of innovation and entrepreneurialism in order to compete in a knowledge-based economy.
British Columbia’s School District 59, based in Dawson Creek, has developed a process that helps teachers and students agree on what different skills look like in different contexts, including the classroom or a co-op program.
In the Employability Skills Carousel activity, the teacher selects between eight and 10 employability skills for students to focus on in a given term.
A school district in British Columbia has developed performance criteria with which students, teachers, and employers can assess students’ employability skills.
Backyard Bird Feeding in Newfoundland used peer and cross-tutoring to help schoolchildren acquire information and communications technology (ICT) skills through learning about the habits and habitats of local birds.
Completed in April 2000, the Internet-based learning project was supported by Industry Canada’s GrassRoots program.
The Applications of Working and Learning (AWAL) Project helps middle and secondary school teachers and student teachers connect the curriculum they teach in the classroom with the application of that knowledge in the workplace.
Alberta’s Advanced Education and Career Development (AECD) program is developing the general employability skills of adult learners, particularly those who do not benefit from traditional academic programming.
The program includes the Adult Development Reform Initiative (ADRI), aimed at adults who have low levels of education and limited employability skills.
SaskTel has launched a number of initiatives to help its employees make full use of the new technologies that shape its business.
SaskTel is Saskatchewan’s leading full-service telecommunications company, employing more than 4,000 people in more than 50 communities throughout the province.
Textile manufacturer Hafner Inc. is committed to using technology to enhance learning in the workplace.
Hafner Inc., which manufactures textiles for home furnishing and apparel markets in North America and Europe, employs about 500 workers at its mills in Granby, Quebec.
