Ontario Skills Passport (OSP)

1. Essential Skills, Skill-Building Activities and the Ontario Skills Passportwww.ontario.ca/skillspassport

2. Ontario Skills Passport (OSP)

4. Essential Skills (ES) Tasks • tasks or activities that are performed in the real world • have a clear purpose and often include a “to” statement • are authentic (respond to real world demands) • levels of complexity ranging from 1 to 4 or 5 depending on the skill • demonstrate the transfer of skills from task to task and context to context

5. What is an ES task? An activity considered complete in itself that: employs a skill or skills describes what is being produced or acted upon includes a purpose (real life or work context) Writesa reportto summarize a recent event. Evaluatesthe quality of source materialsto select what to use.

6. Examples of ES Tasks • Read cooking instructions on food packages to prepare foods. Reading Text (2) • Make program-design decisions to ensure the smooth flowing of events. Decision Making (3) • Participate in a job interview for a co-op placement. Oral Communication (3)

7. Essential Skills Tasks: Work, Learning and Life Database

8. Essential Skills Tasks: Work, Learning and Life Database

9. Sample Essential Skills Tasks – Work, Learning and Life Oral Communication

10. Occupation-Specific Essential Skills Tasks

11. NOC 3411 – Dental Assistants

12. Sample Tasks for NOC 3411 – Dental Assistants

13. OSP Occupational ProfilesLinks to information on career planning, education and training, and employment and volunteer opportunities

14. Skill-Building Activities build competency through practice link to the Essential Skills framework help learners understand why and how “bring it all together” for the student link to Ontario curriculum

15. What Are The Skill-Building Activities Needed to Complete this Task?

16. Examples of Skill-Building Activities Complete a page of addition and subtraction problems. Count money to show an understanding of denominations. Arrange letters in alphabetical order. Arrange verbs, nouns and prepositions to create sentences.

17. What Are The Skill-Building Activities Needed to Complete this Task?

18. What Are The Skill-Building Activities Needed to Complete this Task?

19. Why should I worry about tasks? Essential skills levels can only be assigned to tasks

20. One Task, Many Skills Skills aren’t used independently; we use many skills to complete one task Generally, one skill is the primary focus of the task

21. Is this an Essential Skills task?

22. Is this an Essential Skills task?

23. Is this an Essential Skills task? People often like to renovate their homes. They either do the work themselves or hire someone to do it.Are you thinking about renovating your bedroom and installing a nice hardwood floor? Measure your bedroom and calculate how much hardwood you will need to cover your floor. Ask at a local store or search the Internet to find out the price of the hardwood you want, and the cost of installing it. Calculate how much it will cost to install a hardwood floor in your bedroom (including the HST).

24. Try it out!

25. Task Descriptions Fill the 7-day pill box with your grandmother’s four prescriptions ES Complete the page of addition and subtraction problems SB Determine the costs for tuition and textbooks for the first semester of your postsecondary program to decide how much you need to save ES Total your annual heating bill to decide whether the equal billing plan would be a better payment option ES Write a paragraph about something you like to do SB Scan the college map to find your way to the bookstore ES Double the recipe to serve 12 ES 25

26. Task Descriptions Make a list of sale grocery items you need and the sale prices ES Read the bus schedule to find which bus will take you to the doctor’s office ES Read the memo and answer the questions that follow SB Read the classified ads and circle jobs you want to apply to ES Fill in the blanks in the following sentences SB Compare the size and cost of two cans of tomatoes and determine the best buy ES Make a list of all the documents you read today SB 26

27. Identifying the Essential Skills in the Task Why? links “what I’m learning” to “how I’ll use it”, connecting classroom learning to real life easily linked to learner goals demonstrates the use and application of skill sets informs instruction helps learners and practitioners assess skill development and skill gaps assists learner understanding of skill transfer 27

28. Guide to Linking Essential Skills and the Curriculum

29. The guide was created with educators in mind. It can help you as teachers, literacy practitioners, adult educators, curriculum writers, and learning materials developers: • Identify the Essential Skills (ES) you are already teaching; • Make the ES explicit in your classroom teaching and assessment; • Analyse classroom activities to determine where embedded ES are; • Understand task complexity from an ES perspective

30. How Can I Identify Essential Skills in Classroom Activities?

31. Step 1

32. Is this an Essential Skills task?Read pamphlets and information sheets to learn about the causes of diabetes.

33. Is this an Essential Skills task?Complete a page of word problems to show understanding of a recent Geometry Unit.

34. Step 2 - Analyze the ES Task Step 2: To analyse Essential Skills tasks, ask:

35. Step 2 - Analyze the ES TaskTASK: Count out exact change to pay for the bus.

36. Step 2 - Analyze the ES TaskTASK: Count out exact change to pay for the bus.

37. Try it out!

38. Step 2 - Analyze the ES Task

39. Step 2 - Analyze the ES Task

43. Try it out!

46. Curriculum Planning Chart 46

47. Curriculum Planning Chart – Light Duty Cleaner 47

48. Curriculum Planning Chart – Light Duty Cleaner 48

49. Curriculum Planning Chart – Light Duty Cleaner 49

50. SKILLS ZONE