...practitioners, or representatives from DEEWR and FaHCSIA. It was decided that a representative Working Party of 8 Forum members should be formed, charged with the task of writing a report proposing a national agenda for action to assist people with dyslexia. The Working Party consulted widely and in particular benefited from comments on a draft report that were received from the following authorities (all of whom have expressed very strong support for the recommendations we have made): • AUSPELD (The Australian Federation of Specific Learning Difficulty Associations) • LDA (Learning Difficulties Australia) • ALDA (The Australian Learning Difficulty Association) • Speech Pathology Australia • The DDOLL (Developmental Disorders of Language and Literacy) network, which was established with funding...
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...improve and develop the learner’s literacy skills. Methods of analysis includes examining the needs from relevant stakeholders and the outcomes from a community of inquiry. Results of the research and feedback demonstrated that although students may possess English GCSE qualifications the business community and bodies such as OFSTED highlight that the level of literacy amongst today’s school leavers was not adequate in terms of the functional skill. The report highlights the importance of increasing student’s level of literacy and functional skills. There are areas specifically in terms of cross-curricular activities that could be further explored. The report recommends the creation of a learning tool in the form of a booklet to enable students to develop and improve their literacy skills within the business curriculum and thus the functional skill. Once the initial proposal was agreed in order to maintain focus throughout the project, SMART objectives were established and addressed, a time plan was created and the personal tutor was involved during the project (Refer to Appendix 1). Introduction ‘Literacy is a fundamental human right and the foundation of lifelong learning. It is fully essential to social and human development in its ability to transform lives. For individuals, families, and societies alike, it is an instrument of empowerment to improve one’s health, one’s income, and one’s relationship with the world.’ (UNESCO) Literacy skills has never been more important...
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...But men are more likely to drop out before completing secondary education, particularly in the high-income countries. As a result, in many countries across the world younger women are increasingly better educated than young men in OECD countries. In reading skills, for example, men lag behind girls at the end of compulsory education to the equivalent of a year’s schooling, on average, and are far less likely to spend time reading for pleasure. Men are ahead in mathematics but the gender gap is small compared to reading. But yet the women are still less likely to choose scientific and technological fields of study, and even when they do, they are less likely to take up a career in these fields – a concern given skills shortages in the workplace, the generally more promising career and earnings prospects in these fields, and the likelihood of positive spillovers from more skilled workers in these fields to innovation and growth. Such decisions are taken very early in life in OECD countries, so one answer should be to focus more work on gender stereotyping and attitude changing at a young age. Gender stereotyping frequently takes place in subtle ways at home, in schools and in society. If primary teachers are mainly women, and secondary teachers, particularly in the sciences, are predominantly men, what...
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...Revised Scholarship, Practice, and Leadership Essay Information literacy is essential for leaders, scholars and researchers to help them lead and build the needed skills academically and within their workplace environment. Resources for information literacy are constantly growing to meet today's society needs. To some leaders and scholars, this type of convenience is more of a blessing while other who cannot understand the process see it as a hindrance. The discussions of this paper is focused on leaders without a scholarly background, the effects of leadership skills on a practitioner, the role that information literacy material is on scholars, and the relationship that I have with information literacy and the SPL Model. An additional discussion is focused on synthesize thinking toward scholarship, practice, and leadership and the significant role that they process in decision-making. Leaders Without A Scholarly Background In today's society companies are no longer developing leaders through their management-training program, this money saving approach has eliminated the up spring of bright employees into a promising leadership role. Leaders that work within the shipyard profession with no scholarly background will lack the knowledge of knowing their strengths and limits. They will lack the ability toward seizing the opportunity and fail to take advance of key organizational cues and norms. Shipyard leaders with no scholarly background will avoid dealing with and resolving...
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...for Teaching Generic Skills The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) identified the general skills that most workplaces require, thus providing a basis for programs that prepare students for employment. Reform programs such as Tech Prep and High Schools that Work strive to incorporate these "generic" skills as they offer students a rigorous academic background, technological literacy skill development, and learning experiences that are situated in the context of real-world environments (Pucel 1999). Integrated academic and CTE programs and contextual learning efforts offer similar opportunities to promote the learning of generic skills by linking them to specific workplace and social practices. Workplace learning experiences are another way of highlighting generic skill development by placing students in job situations where these generic skills are used in combination with occupational or technical skills. Although the United States has adopted a variety of strategies for the teaching of generic skills, it is not the only country to do so. Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom have initiated similar programs to address generic skill development. In Australia, integrated curriculum that infuses literacy into specific vocational courses has served to illustrate the necessity of contextualized, multiple literacies (Searle et al. 1999). Case Studies to Advance Skills and Employability, a project conducted at the Universities of Northumbria and Newcastle...
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...needed by an individual to be successful at work and provide reasons to persuade your teacher that these are the most critical skills for success. Technology has changed the workplace a great deal in recent years. Today almost every business uses computers and electronic communication. The most essential skills needed in the workforce today are computer literacy, communication skills, and being a team player. Computer literacy refers to the ability to use computer programs in an effective manner. Computer skills have become increasingly important as companies have started to depend on computers more to get work done. Computer skills mean that a person can perform tasks that others on the job can’t. A person will have a better chance of being successful at work if they can use common or specialized computer programs. Almost every job today requires good communication skills. A person should be able to communicate well with staff, with other businesses, and with the public. This could include face to face meetings, over the phone, e-mails, and letters. Good communication skills enable a person to understand, and be understood by other people, without offending the person, or confusing them. In the modern workplace, almost everybody is a member of one or more teams. Teamwork can transform the workplace. It can create open channels of communication, improve productivity, keep morale high and provide workers with a sense of identity and purpose. All of these skills can be...
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...Managing change and diversity at EasiYo FROM A MANUFACTURING base in Auckland, EasiYo enables over a million homes in New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Italy and China to enjoy fresh yoghurt every day of the year. It supports home production through the supply of powdered bases and culture and a plastic incubator in which the yoghurt ferments. Paul O'Brien joined the company as CEO in December 2009 and has overseen sales growth of around 30 per cent a year, on the way to a target of sales in excess of $50 million to 20 plus countries. It is part of the New Zealand success in dairy products but for EasiYo business growth has also been about managing the transition from humble beginnings into a multinational enterprise with a product that relies on strict compliance to high standards of food quality and safety. EasiYo started in the early 1990s as a husband and wife team working from their garage. The business succeeded through research and development, firstly into yoghurt making, then finding the right milk powder and freeze-dried culture to ensure 100 per cent setting of the incubated yoghurt at home. Partnership with the Westland Dairy Company, who purchased the company outright soon after Paul O'Brien took charge, gave EasiYo R&D capacity. Recent growth has been based on marrying corporate management with the strengths inherited from the original family business. Paul joined a company that had grown rapidly with NZ$25 million sales, three...
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...Financial literacy pattern in age Figure A: The financial literacy by age group (percent providing the correct answers to the question) Figure A: The financial literacy by age group (percent providing the correct answers to the question) The survey data confirm that financial literacy is lowest in the youth and the elder. This finding is occurring across countries as shown in figure A. However, it is in our interest that older people give themselves very high scores regarding their own poor scores on basic financial literacy question. In this case, Finke, Howe, and Huston (2011) had developed a multidimensional measure of financial literacy for the old and confirmed that, financial literacy falls with age, but peoples’ confidence in financial decision making abilities actually increase with age. The imbalance between real and perceived knowledge might explained why financial scams are often happened to the elder people. * Financial literacy pattern in gender (Figure B) Not only older men are generally more financial knowledgeable than older women but the same patterns hold across every respondents and countries. Researchers are seeking the explanation of the difference between male and female knowledge gap, which traditional explanations cannot fully account. Mahdavi and Horton (2012) had examined highly selective women in the U.S. Even with well-educated group, women’s financial literacy was found very low. This could imply that women may acquire financial literacy differently...
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...THE INTEGRATION OF BASIC COMPUTER PROGRAMMING IN 5TH & 6TH GRADE OF SILLIMAN UNIVERSITY Management 35: Business Research 1st Semester School Year 2014-2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page Table of Contents Lists of Charts Lists of Tables CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE Introduction Theoretical Background: I. It will promote computer literacy. A. Computer literacy definition 1. Dictionary definition 2. Operational definition B. Importance of computer literacy 1. Home 2. School 3. Work place C. Applications of computer literacy 1. Home 2. School 3. Work place II. A suitable precursor to advance programming. A. Fundamentals of computer programming 1. Programming languages 2. Application programs B. Relevance to Higher levels of programming 1. Scope of learning 2. Applied learnings C. Relevance to Higher educational levels 1. Theoretical background for computer courses 2. Supplementary learnings III. An asset to latent employment opportunities. A. Improved skill-sets 1. Programming skills 2. Analytical skills 3. Mathematical skills B. Relevance to fields of work C. Real life applications The Problem Statement of the Problem Objectives Significance of the study Scope of the Study Definition of terms Research Methodology Research environment Respondents of the Study Sampling Techniques Research Instruments Data Collection Procedures ...
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...older workers, I felt that I was being taken advantage of. This is when I asked my father for advice about when it was okay to say no to older people. He informed me that when you are working everyone should be equal and nobody should get special treatment. He also told me that if someone can’t hold their own then a manager needs to be informed about the situation. Then next time that John asked me to take out boxes I respectfully told him that I have work to do and wouldn’t be able to assist him. When I told him that I felt that I learned a lesson that I will take with me for the rest of my life. Working in a fast food restaurant such as Pizza Hut another form workplace of literacy you have to form teamwork. I was a familiar with other forms of teamwork, because I played high school football. Teamwork in the workplace was completely different though. There were some days when my manager would be having a rush of customers before some of us were scheduled to work. He would then call one of us to come in early, and start our shifts before we were supose to. I really didn’t want to come in early, until one day I was on the other side of the table. I was the one working, and we were under staffed, and we had tried to call somebody in to start their shift earlier than they were scheduled. When this problem occurred it reminded me of the time that I didn’t want to come in when they called me. I then realized that working as a staff we were a team, and when one of the staff members...
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...Analyse and Apply Adult Numeracy Teaching Practices Table of Contents Table of Contents 2 1 Analyse & apply conceptual frameworks and theories underpinning numeracy teaching 4 1.1 Do the learning theories that underpin literacy teaching have any relevance to the teaching of numeracy? Discuss this question by identifying the similarities and the differences involved 4 1.2 In the realm of numeracy there are a number of frameworks that pertain to the teaching of numeracy to adults. Select two and discuss their relevance to numeracy teaching 7 1.3 It is clear that several adult learning principles apply equally to the teaching of numeracy and to the teaching of literacy. Review the adult learning principles and identify any that apply specifically to the teaching of numeracy. Select a skill from each of levels 1-3 of numeracy in the ACSF and explain how you would apply a relevant adult learning principle to the teaching of each numeracy skill. 7 1.4 Learning numeracy can occur in a number of contexts. Identify three or more contexts or types of provision in which numeracy learning for vocational education and training contexts, can take place and identify which levels of numeracy from the ACSF would be applicable. 10 2 Research literacy requirements of those participating in numeracy provision 12 2.1 Adult learners have a diversity of skills and backgrounds. From your experience identify examples of learner diversity and how it impacted on their ability to...
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...Poor health literacy is a “silent epidemic” that challenges the functioning of the healthcare system. Low health literacy levels are associated with higher risks of hospitalization, inability to manage health conditions, poor health outcomes, and inability to seek proper treatment and understand options available (Palumbo, 2015). Those with inadequate health literacy are more likely to be poor and uninsured (Levy & Janke, 2016). According to a study done by Pati et al. (2010) concerning maternal health literacy, children whose mothers had poor health literacy were much less likely to participate in welfare programs they were eligible for. 12.7% of people in the United States are living in poverty (Semega, Fontenot, & Kollar, 2017), yet those...
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...The Digital Divide INF 103 Computer Literacy Sean O’Leary, DM, MBA 4/21/14 The digital divide is a phrase used to address the gap between those who have ready access to the information and communication technologies, the knowledge that they provide access to, and those who do not. In the global digital information age those who are either unable to access the internet are increased disadvantage in their access to information. In most western nations government policies are being established which attempt to ensure that all citizens have the opportunity to access and effectively use the internet, in order to enable them to participate fully in the educational, social and economic activities. While it can be argued that several factors contribute to the digital divide, economics appears to be the biggest contributing factors for access to the Digital Opportunity Index. The Introduction to Digital Literacy, explains the digital divide as related to threat that results from groups of underprivileged people not having access to computers and the internet. According to Bowles, 2013, the fact that some people have easy access to the benefits computers provide; while many others are cut off from them, is considered an ethical issue. The information rich are on one side, and those who are poor, living in underdeveloped countries, or who live in a rural area with no internet access on the other side. The number of homes in the United States with personal...
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...The Case for Writing Studies as a Major Discipline Charles Bazerman, University of California, Santa Barbara Literate activity, directly and indirectly, occupies much of the day of people in modern society. Literacy in its basic and more elaborated, specialized forms is the cornerstone in the education of the young. Literacy and symbolic artifacts underlay the information age and its information economy. Literacy along with its enabling technologies and consequent forms of social, political, and economic organization, has supported ways of life that distinguish us from humans of 5000 years ago. Literate engagement is also associated with forms of belief, commitment, and consciousness that shape modern personality. Yet the study of writing--its production, its circulation, its uses, its role in the development of individuals and societies, and its learning by individuals, social collectives, and historically emergent cultures--remains a dispersed enterprise. Inquiry into skills, practices, objects, and consequences of reading and writing is the concern of only a few people, fragmented across university disciplines, with no serious home of its own. How is it that all this enormity is the interest of a few linguistic anthropologists, a very few psychologists, an occasional sociologist, scattered cultural historians and scholars, some applied linguists, some education researchers, and an increasing but still limited number of people in the teaching of writing in higher...
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...My initial plan to improve my academic literacy was unfortunately not as successful as I had hoped. I had initially planned to add resource sheets on spelling, grammar, vocabulary and punctuation to my weekly readings but found these more helpful as a printed document that I initially skimmed over and was able to refer back to as needed. The resources for writing strong essays are another that I have printed and put into a folder for future reference along with a copy of the key principles. I do feel, however the more essay’s and assessments I write and the more feedback I get over the next few years will be vital in my essay and assessment writing improvement. The paper rater and the writers diet websites have become an essential part...
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