It is also helpful to define what you mean by "workplace literacy" and what the employer perceives as "workplace literacy."  Are you offering customized contextual instruction in the basic skills needed on the job, or are you offering a GED class?  And in regards to assessment, be very aware of the legal ramifications of using tests which are not legally defensible in the workplace.  We have also found it very helpful to have management buy into a 50-50 schedule (i.e. half of the time in class is paid "on-the-clock" time and half is the employee's time).


Robin Asbury, CWDP, Ed.D.
Director, WV Workplace Education Program
RESA VII
1201 N. 15th St.
Clarksburg, WV 26301
304/624-6554 XT 243
1/800/427-3600 XT 243 
Cell:  304/695-1182
Fax: 304/624-5223
resa7rb at wvnvms.wvnet.edu

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Laurie Bargstedt 
  To: workplace at nifl.gov 
  Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 9:05 AM
  Subject: [Workplace 291] workplace literacy start-up


  Hello Alison and Fellow List Members, 
   
  We will be starting a new workplace literacy program this year at an aluminum extrusion plant that manufactures windows & doors. We are planning to provide instruction at times that the first shift can attend after their shift and the second shift can attend prior to their shift. 
   
  I am wondering what advice others might share with us as we begin this project. What lessons did list members learn the hard way that they would share with us?
   




  Laurie E. Bargstedt, Coordinator of Adult Literacy and Incarcerated Education   

  HFM BOCES Career and Technical Center 
  212 Co. Hwy. 103, Johnstown, NY 12095 
  Phone:  518-762-4633, ext.158     fax 762-9361 

  NYACCE President   www.nyacce.org
  Fulton County Literacy Volunteers, Vice President www.fultonliteracy.org/

  "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
  -Ghandi



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