I am a Curriculum Developer

• How can I use the profiles?
• How can I use the Reader's Guide?
• How can I use the Authentic Workplace materials?

You can use this part of the web site to:

• Ensure that your curriculum integrates the Essential Skills used in occupations throughout Canada
• Build additional career/occupational information into your learning outcomes
• Integrate real work examples into your support materials
• Ensure that school-based standards for Essential Skills relate to workplace requirements

You can research specific occupations

• Search the profiles using "Occupation". You can search using a job title or a code from the National Occupational Classification.
• You can, through a series of searches, identify skill expectations in various occupations. You may want to use "Advanced Search" to find a set of occupations. Show me how to do this.
• You can connect to other sources of information about these occupations using the Links to Other Sites at the end of each profile.

(NOTE: Not all occupations are on the database. What occupations are profiled?)

You can find examples of how workers use particular skills

• Search using "Skills". You can find, for example, occupations that involve using geometry, interpreting graphs or complex decision making. Show me how to do these searches.
• Other workplace examples and ideas on how to use them in classroom activities can be found at the Applications of Working and Learning web site.

Ideas for Using the Readers' Guide to Essential Skills Profiles

Use this to understand the terms used in the Essential Skills Profiles and the measurement scales used to describe the complexity of tasks.

You may find the complexity scales useful in developing classroom activities in "soft skills" at progressively more complex levels. (You may find it useful to consider the components identified for concepts such as Problem Solving and seeing how these components each range from simple to complex. This may help to identify stepping stones in the skill development process.)
View the Reader's Guide.

Ideas for Using the Authentic Workplace Materials

The sample workplace materials made available here can be reproduced for use in classroom learning activities. (The copyright permissions allowing such use have been obtained.)

The write-up accompanying each sample provides some ideas for how it or documents like it could be used.

Samples from particular occupations could be used to give students a look at how these skills are used in the world of work.

View the User Guide to Authentic Workplace Materials.