Essential SkillsEssential Skills

Linking Apprenticeship and Essential Skills in Planning and Programming

Margeritt Roger, M.Ed.Essential Skills CoordinatorManitoba Apprenticeship

Why Essential Skills?Why Essential Skills?

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

Skills for SuccessSkills for Success

Essential Skills for the trade Essential Skills for technical training or

certification examination

Systems PerspectiveSystems Perspective

From Product to ProcessFrom 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 doesn’t

Apprenticeship Branch InitiativesApprenticeship Branch Initiatives

Awareness-raising Assessment Upgrading and

support services Capacity-building Policy and

procedures

Awareness-raisingAwareness-raising

Brochure Presentations Workshops

AssessmentAssessment

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

Referral Counselors

Upgrading and SupportsUpgrading and Supports

Inventory existing adult education system Develop and pilot prototype products and

processes Expand partnerships Identify standards

Curriculum and MaterialsCurriculum and Materials

Frameworks Teaching curriculum Support materials

Train-the-TrainerTrain-the-Trainer

Mentoring Peer professional development Learning by doing Workshops and training events

Policies and ProceduresPolicies and Procedures

Intake process PLAR process Assessment policies Best practices

Model ProjectModel Project

Opaskweyak Cree Nation

For more informationFor more information

Margerit Roger, M.Ed.

Apprenticeship Branch

1010-401 York

Winnipeg, MB R3C 0P8

(204) 945-3337 mroger@gov.mb.ca