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Resources for Facilitating the AWAL Workshop
AWAL Resources for Learners and Educators
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Resources for Facilitating the AWAL Workshop

  • AWAL Guide: Handbook for Facilitators
    The AWAL Guide: Handbook for Facilitators is essentially "AWAL in a box." The background information, suggestions, and resources collected here are intended to provide you with the tools and support you need to understand, plan for, deliver, and benefit from an AWAL Workshop for your organization.
  • The AWAL Forms
    The AWAL Forms consist of a set of seven forms. The questions on Forms 1 and 2 may be used for any other non-commercial educational use (co-op interviews, etc.) provided the AWAL copyright is included on all copies.
    (File opens in new window with links to forms, 17KB)
  • AWAL PowerPoint
    The AWAL PowerPoint is designed to be used with the AWAL Guide: Handbook for Facilitators. The PowerPoint presentations include more than 40 slides with speaker's notes for you to deliver your own AWAL Workshop. Choose from three different presentations:


AWAL Resources for Learners and Educators

  • The Big Picture – Essential Skills for Life, Learning and Work
    This curriculum resource document has been designed to enhance students and teachers understanding of the Essential Skills used at work, school, home and in the community. The Essential Skills have been imbedded into curriculum delivery to provide learners with multiple opportunities to demonstrate and reflect on the relevance of the Essential Skills within their lives. The resource is divided into four sections – Introductory (a starting point for all users), Beginner (Grade 7 – 8), Intermediate (Grade 9 – 10) and Expert (Grade 11 – 12). This resource has been developed and will be implemented and evaluated by the Waterloo Region District School Board, Thames Valley District School Board, Limestone District School Board, Toronto Catholic District School Board, District School Board of Niagara and the Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud.

    The Big Picture – Essential Skills for Life, Learning and Work
    NATIONAL VERSION

The Big Picture – Essential Skills for Life, Learning and Work
ONTARIO VERSION (Aligned to the overall and specific expectation of the Ontario Curriculum Grades 7-12)


Learn More About AWAL

  • The AWAL Workplace Enhancement Project (AWEP)
    This report outlines the work of the AWAL Workplace Enhancement Project (AWEP) team over a period of ten months as they worked to answer three key questions. 1) Did the AWEP result in the AWAL process being of increased benefit to employers? 2) Did the AWEP provide employers with tools to improve their recruitment and training practices? 3) Did the AWEP further the goals and objectives of the Workplace Skills Strategy particularly in terms of raising awareness around essential skills and the importance of workers possessing adequate levels of these skills? Taken together these form the central question of the AWEP project: Is it possible to increase the usefulness and relevance of AWAL for the workplace?

    The answer is absolutely “Yes.” Read the full report to learn more.
    (File opens in new window, pdf format, 459 KB)

  • AWAL Research Project Report
    Between January 2004 and March 2005, a national research project was conducted to establish if “AWAL is effective as a professional development activity in heightening awareness of skills development through the relevant application of curriculum to real world contexts.”

    The overall research finding is straightforward. YES, taken together - and separately - the research data demonstrate that the AWAL experience is influential and has unique and special benefits to educators, students and communities.

    The study was conducted by Steinbach Consulting & Associates for the New Brunswick Department of Education and the AWAL National Project through Camosun College, Victoria, British Columbia, with funding from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC). The study has both Canada-wide and specific provincial and territorial implications. This evaluation provides useful information that all jurisdictions involved with - or considering involvement with AWAL - may better understand the positive impact of the AWAL National Project, possible project enhancements, and future applications.
    (File opens page in new window with links to report chapters, 21 KB)


  • Global TV Presentation
    See what Grade 8 students at Quispamsis Middle School in St. John, New Brunswick learned when they went "STUDENT AWAL" at Global TV!
    (File opens in new window, PowerPoint format, 2609 KB)

This report summarizes AWAL Innovations, a project built on the foundation of the AWAL National Project. AWAL Innovations was designed to complement and strengthen AWAL professional development activity. Managed by Camosun College, BC, AWAL Innovations received HRSDC funding support from December 2003 through February 2006. The main objectives of the new initiative were to apply the principles of AWAL National to additional activities, to embed AWAL activities in system-wide curriculum resource development, to ensure AWAL sustainability, and to find a “natural home” for AWAL. Read how AWAL Innovations fulfilled its mandate and contributed to a new vision for Essential Skills activities across the learning and work communities across Canada.

This report summarizes the progress of the Applications of Working and Learning (AWAL) National Project from December 1, 2000 to November 30, 2003. The report reviews the project's foundation and history, lists the goals and objectives of AWAL, and describes the activities and outcomes of the three-year initiative, including development of the database of online resource materials to assist teachers in the classroom. As well, the report outlines the new directions proposed by a new two-year project, AWAL Innovations, which include employer and student-based AWAL, as well as research into and evaluation of AWAL participation as a factor in effective teaching.

  
   
     

 

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