Elective Course Outline
| COURSE NAME | Planning Programs for Employment Outcomes |
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| COURSE (Module) Description |
The intent of this course is to help you gain an understanding of how to plan programs and services to meet the unique needs of learners who have employment-related goals. Like the literacy planning that practitioners do with learners themselves, planning programs—in an ideal world—would be an all inclusive participatory process. Situations, however, are hardly ever ideal. In fact, in some types of programs practitioners may not have the authority to take on the role of program planner. The information in the study guide, the discussions you'll have with other course participants and the course instructor, the learning activities and assignments that you'll complete are meant to provide you with an increased understanding of program planning in general and program planning for a specific purpose, like employment-related outcomes. |
| COURSE (Module) Outcome |
Upon completion of this course participants should be able to plan programs and services to meet the unique needs of learners who have employment-related goals. |
| REQUIRED TEXT | Planning Programs for Employment Outcomes. Lindsay Kennedy. Copyright © Algonquin College, Conestoga College, Project READ Literacy Network, Sault College Sault College, 2007. |
| PREREQUISITE | The Adult Literacy Learner or Permission of the Course Instructor |
| 48 Credit Hours | |
| UNIT OUTCOMES | |
| UNIT ONE: A CONTEXT FOR PLANNING Successful completion of this unit will enable the participant to demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of planning literacy programs and services for adults with employment-related goals. |
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| UNIT TWO: A PROCESS FOR PLANNING Successful completion of this unit will enable the participant to use an inclusive planning process to create an action plan that is based on realistic and achievable goals. |
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| UNIT THREE: TURNING PLANNING INTO ACTION Successful completion of this unit will enable the participant to demonstrate an ability to design and evaluate programs and services that increase an organization's capacity to work with learners who have employment-related goals. |
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| UNIT FOUR: SUPPORTING PROGRAMS and SERVICES Successful completion of this unit will enable the participant to demonstrate an understanding of the role that program management plays in the development and sustainability of programs and services. |
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| ASSIGNMENTS & LEARNING ACTIVITIES | |
| To complete Planning Programs for Employment Outcomes successfully you must submit for marking four assignments and participate in a number of self-directed learning activities. The value or weight assigned to each of these activities will be set by the course instructor. Also, the course facilitator or instructor and/or delivery agency may have additional requirements. | |
| MODULE DEMONSTRATION ACTIVITY | |
| In addition to the successful completion of the learning activities for each unit, this course requires you to complete a demonstration activity. The demonstration is the method by which you will show that you have met the overall course outcome. In other words, to show you have learned what you set out to learn as a participant in this course. | |
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