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Steering Committee: Ontario Regulators for Access. Edwina McGroddy Presented at CLEAR's 23rd Annual Conference Toronto, ON September 2003. Genesis of Project: Spring 2000. Regulators Talk to Each Other Meetings facilitated and hosted by the Maytree Foundation. Educational Sessions.
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Steering Committee: Ontario Regulators for Access Edwina McGroddy Presented at CLEAR's 23rd Annual Conference Toronto, ON September 2003
Genesis of Project: Spring 2000 • Regulators Talk to Each Other • Meetings facilitated and hosted by the Maytree Foundation
Educational Sessions • Competency-based Assessment • Scanning the Horizon: Access Issues for Regulators • Rising Standards: The impact on Access to Professions for the Foreign-Trained • Developing Professionally Relevant and Fair Language Testing • Perspectives from the Outside
Steering Committee • Grant opportunity from Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities • Terms of Reference • Project Proposal: Project Coordinator hired
Doing the Work • Research • Interviews • Surveys • Documents • Publications • Compendium of promising practices • Guiding principles • How to guide • Resource guide
Doing the Work (con’t) • Website • Regulators’ Forums
Champions of the Cause • Money/Resources • People/Structure
Challenges • Tangible (participation, jurisdictional boundaries, liability, measurable outcomes) • Intangible (visibility, government input, shape/face of entity)
Momentum in moving forward • Steering Committee is bigger than the project • Sustainability • What next…?
Presentation Follow-up • Please pick up a handout from this presentation • Presentation materials will be posted on CLEAR’s website • Contact: Edwina McGroddy at emcgroddy@icao.on.ca or www.regulators4access.com (after October 17)