Essential Skills

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Essential Skills

• Linking Apprenticeship and Essential Skills in
  Planning and Programming
• Margeritt Roger, M.Ed.
• Essential Skills Coordinator
• Manitoba Apprenticeship

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Why Essential Skills?

• To ensure that apprentices and trades qualifiers
  have maximum success through appropriate
  Essential Skills benchmarking and upgrade
  programs

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Skills for Success

• Essential Skills for the trade
• Essential Skills for technical training or
  certification examination

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Systems Perspective
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From Product to Process

• Find ways of integrating ES into what we already
  do
• Create clear pathways for our clients
• Build partnerships and grow new resources
• Create new infrastructure, expectations, values
• Keep track of what works and what doesnt

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Apprenticeship Branch Initiatives

• Awareness-raising
• Assessment
• Upgrading and support services
• Capacity-building
• Policy and procedures

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Awareness-raising

• Brochure
• Presentations
• Workshops

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Assessment

• Trades-related ES assessment tools
• Upgrading recommendation forms
• Training of Assessment Administrators and
  Referral Counselors

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Upgrading and Supports

• Inventory existing adult education system
• Develop and pilot prototype products and
  processes
• Expand partnerships
• Identify standards

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Curriculum and Materials

• Frameworks
• Teaching curriculum
• Support materials

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Train-the-Trainer

• Mentoring
• Peer professional development
• Learning by doing
• Workshops and training events

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Policies and Procedures

• Intake process
• PLAR process
• Assessment policies
• Best practices

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Model Project

• Opaskweyak Cree Nation

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For more information

• Margerit Roger, M.Ed.
• Apprenticeship Branch
• 1010-401 York
• Winnipeg, MB R3C 0P8
• [phone] mroger_at_gov.mb.ca