Aboriginal Literacy and Parenting Skills (A-LAPS) TrainingLocation: Hennings Building, Room
301 ABOUT A-LAPS The Aboriginal Literacy and Parenting Skills program, developed in Alberta, is an innovative family literacy program for Aboriginal parents. A-LAPS uses “lowlevel” literacy materials to strengthen the literacy and parenting skills of participants and provides them with strategies to model exemplary literacy practices with their children. ABOUT THE A-LAPS TRAINING This course teaches how to facilitate an A-LAPS family literacy program. Topics and areas that will be covered include:
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS ELAINE CAIRNS, BA, BEd, has worked in the field of literacy and ESL for 9 years. She has been a volunteer tutor, instructor, ESL administrator and literacy coordinator. Elaine is co-manager of the Literacy and Parenting Skills program and the Calgary Community Family Literacy program at Bow Valley College, Calgary. LAUREEN MACKENZIE, BA, BEd, MA, brings 31 years experience in the education field as a teacher, administrator, parent life facilitator, counsellor, volunteer and program developer. Laureen is comanager of the Literacy and Parenting Skills program and the Calgary Community Family Literacy program at Bow Valley College, Calgary.
Learning Communities: Linking Life-long Learning and Literacy in a Knowledge-based SocietyLocation: Hennings Building, Room
304 ABOUT LEARNING COMMUNITIES This course will explore the theory and practice of the learning community concept and its implications for linking life-long learning and literacy in a manner that fosters sustainable community capacity building and development based on local learning partnerships. Learning communities in BC and elsewhere will serve as case studies. Use of the Internet prior to and during the course is desirable. See http://members.shaw.ca/rfaris for articles, reports and links to associated sites. Participants can gain 1.0 CACE elective credit towards their CACE certificate with successful completion of their assignments. Pre-Workshop Requirement: Participants are required to gather core socio-economic data (format will be provided upon registration) of their community as the basis of a community profile that they will develop and use during the course.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR DR. RON FARIS, PhD, is President of Golden Horizon Ventures . Ron teaches graduate courses on Learning Communities, and The Social and Political Economic Context of Learning in Democratic Organizations, and non-credit workshops on Life-long Learning at the University of Victoria.
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