Hello Susan,

Thank you for pointing out these great free, downloadable work- 
contextualized ("embedded") basic skills materials.  I wonder if you  
-- and others here -- have recommendations of other _online_  work- 
contextualized basic skills curriculum or materials in English.  If  
so, let me know, and I will put a list together and send it back to  
this discussion list.

David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net

On Jan 23, 2006, at 12:33 AM, Susan Reid wrote:


> Hi Judi

>

> I don't know how helpful this will be to you

> In the UK under their Skills for Life Strategy they have developed  

> a lot of online materials for a whole range of occupations. They  

> have 'embedded' literacy, language and numeracy skill development  

> into these materials

> Here is the url for the list of occupations

>

> http://www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus/embeddedlearning/ 

> cfbtgeneralinfo.cfm

>

> One of them Retail has got a module on customer Service - it is not  

> necessarily specifically designed for ESL learners and will refer  

> to the UK Literacy and ESOL Curricula which will be of no interest  

> to you and there will be interesting cross cultural issues between  

> the UK and the USS  but I thought the section might be useful as a  

> starting point

> http://www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus/embeddedlearning/ 

> searchresults.cfm?setting=retail

>

> We think the materials are great not only for content but also  

> ideas and approaches. however we share the metric system used in  

> the UK but hopefully that won't be an issue for Customer Service

>

> Hope it proves of some use  to you

>

> Susan Reid

> Manager, Consultancy Services

> Workbase the New Zealand Centre for Workforce Literacy

> www.workbase.org.nz

> www.nzliteracyportal.org.nz

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