OLC and Learning for Literacy Professionals | Literature and Resources
Partners in Learning for Literacy Professionals
Literacy and essential skills professionals across Ontario work daily to provide the best learning opportunities possible for their students. The OLC believes to maintain quality literacy and essential skills programming, these professionals require learning opportunities as well.
The Ontario Literacy Coalition (OLC) defines Learning for Literacy Professionals as actions that improve effectiveness of literacy and essential skills programming. This can involve training, networking, resource-sharing and professionalization opportunities.
Linking the field and the people of Ontario:
- As Ontario moves forward in a knowledge-based economy, literacy and basic skills training is key to the success of the province and individual Ontarians.
- The Employment Ontario system (the literacy and basic skills infrastructure) facilitates a variety of learning opportunities for 50,000 Ontarians every year.
- For the literacy field to adequately serve the people of Ontario, the professionals within that system require professional development opportunities.
Initiatives associated with this strategy include the Spotlight on Learning conference, Ontario Adult Literacy Curriculum and building relationships between literacy and essential skills services and their partners in Employment Ontario.
OLC and Learning for Literacy Professionals
Our Learning for Literacy Professionals strategy seeks to:
Our Learning for Literacy Professionals strategy seeks to:
- Gather information on the learning practices, curricula and literacy systems in the province and country, as well as across the globe
- Develop partnerships among literacy and essential skills professionals as well as between the literacy field and relevant community partners
- Build the capacity of literacy and essential skills practitioners and administrators through conferences and other professional development opportunities
- Advise the public sector on the professional development of literacy professionals and creating standards of practice for program delivery
Literature and Resources
The Ontario Literacy Coalition has developed literature and resources to support, promote and create pride within the literacy field.
The Ontario Literacy Coalition has developed literature and resources to support, promote and create pride within the literacy field.
Beyond the Book: Learning From Our History. 2009.
Canada’s first documentation of literacy as a historical movement. It takes a critical look at literacy from the 19th century and continues its storytelling to include present-day programming in Ontario.
Literacy in Ontario. 2009.
The first and only cross-sectoral literacy data published in the province. This comprehensive resource provides important information on the role of literacy in economic and social outcomes of Canadians, an outline of the literacy training system, and an overview of the forces in Ontario that affect literacy levels.
To order these publications, contact olc@on.literacy.ca. View all OLC publications.
Literacy Factsheets
Produced by the Ontario Literacy Coalition. A series of factsheet outlining the impact of literacy on Work, Life, Families, New Canadians, Poverty and Health.
Essentials Skills Bulletins Series
Produced by the Ontario Literacy Coalition. The Essential Skills Bulletin series provides literacy practitioners with current information on essential skills and offers practical activities that can be used in the classroom to help students develop the skills needed for work, learning and life.
Professionalization Of Adult Literacy Practice In Ontario
Produced by the Ontario Literacy Coalition.
Resources
Workshop Inventory for Literacy and Basic Skills/Academic Updating Programs and the General Public
This inventory was put together to showcase the expertise of practitioners, administrators and contractors in the Literacy and Basic Skills field in Ontario.
Conferences, Training and Workshops:
Certificate in Adult and Continuing Education (CACE)
Literacy Educator Certificate Program
Ontario Association of Adult and Continuing Education of School Board Administrators (CESBA)
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
Regional Networks of Ontario
The Centre for Literacy
Online Training:
AlphaPlus Centre
Community Literacy of Ontario (CLO)
Contact North
Partners in Learning for Literacy Professionals
As a partnership development organization, the Ontario Literacy Coalition recognizes the importance of collaboration in every aspect of our work. The OLC would like to acknowledge the organizations that have partnered with us to offer professional development opportunities to stakeholders in the literacy field - across the province and across the country.
