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- WorkReady! Training Opportunity
WorkReady! Training Opportunity
Literacy Texas invites you to submit a proposal for a WorkReady! Training in your community. The Verizon Foundation has funded a grant to Literacy Texas to provide the workforce literacy program, WorkReady! for instructors in four Texas communities. WorkReady! is a unique workforce readiness training manual and training tool developed for the traditionally underserved group of adult learners who are currently enrolled in literacy programs such as Adult Basic Education, GED preparedness or English as a Second Language. It guides administrators, instructors, tutors and students of community-based literacy programs through a process of infusing workforce literacy into the standard literacy curriculum.
When the community-based organizations that we work with expressed a need for materials to help prepare their low-literacy students for the workforce, Literacy Texas engaged national literacy expert, Margaret Doughty of Literacy Powerline, to develop WorkReady! with training that could be integrated into existing literacy curriculum. Many workforce readiness products are geared for the higher-level literacy learner while WorkReady! is especially useful to the low-level learner, as well as a more advanced learner.
Because literacy is the tool, not the goal, providing learner-relevant content such as helping students prepare for the workforce encourages students to persist in their learning and offers them opportunities to “own” lesson planning. WorkReady! assists literacy organizations in customizing their tutoring sessions for the learner/worker needs and goals.
The WorkReady! RFP should be submitted by March 5, 2012 to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
February 2012
