Thanks for sharing your materials, Melissa and Dan.  Dan, I hope it is
agreeable with you if we address questions to you too this week.
 
I notice in the Indiana portion of your presentation that the Indiana
Workforce Education Project is (was) "industry driven" and that the main
industries served were manufacturing, agriculture, hospitality/tourism,
and transportation/logistics.  How were these sectors targeted?
 
Another question: One of your slides says that "98 classes were held in
60 companies with 1,074 students" and that 232 of these were dislocated
or unemployed workers.  Were these workers being provided these classes
by the companies thay had previously worked for as some sort of a
severance package? If not, where did they come from and were their
classes also held on company premises?
 
And a question for all our discussants:  Where does the funding for
credentialing programs come from?  Are they generally held in workplaces
with cooperation from the company or are they usually pre-employment
ventures?
 
Thanks in advance for helping us understand how this has worked for you.
 
Donna

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From: workplace-bounces at nifl.gov [mailto:workplace-bounces at nifl.gov] On
Behalf Of Dayton, Melissa
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 9:21 AM
To: The Workplace Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [Workplace 672] Re: Please share COABE experiences



Greetings,

Connecticut and Indiana are establishing workforce readiness
certificates based on the CASAS Workforce Skills Certification System.
Attached is a copy of the COABE presentation, "Workforce Skills
Certificates: Enhancing Curriculum and Student Outcomes", which Dan Wann
of the Indiana Adult Education Professional Development Project and I
co-presented.  The session generated many good questions, and we look
forward to this week's discussion.

 

Melissa Dayton

Adult Training and Development Network

Capitol Region Education Council

111 Charter Oak Avenue

Hartford, CT  06106

tel:  (860) 524-4057

fax: (860) 524-4050

www.crec.org/cetes/atdn

 

 

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