Skills Highway Workplace Literacy and Numeracy WorkshopTerrace Conference Centre

Wellington

1 February 2018

Welcome!

Overview of the ForumMeet and greet, with lunch

• Skills Highway and TEC update– Skills Highway Roadshows– Ako Aotearoa research project– Changes at TEC

• Presentations– Gary Basham, National Manager Migrant Futures– Claire Matheson, Coffee Educators– Gary Sharpe and Hannah Hughson, WITT

Afternoon tea

• Presentation– Tina Rose, Education Unlimited

• Skills Highway and TEC wrap up

Skills Highway update

Nicky MurrayProgramme Manager Skills Highway

Skills Highway revisited

• Established in 2008

• ‘Brand’ for workplace literacy and numeracy

• Research and evaluation

• Website:– General information– Success stories– News– Resources– Skills Highway Award

• Funded by the Tertiary Education Commission and managed by the Industry Training Federation

The three ‘i’s that underpin arobust workplace literacy and numeracy programme

• What are the issues that can be related back to literacy and numeracy?

• What are the interventions that will address these?

• What are the indicators that will tell you what difference the interventions have made?

Literacy and numeracy gains areimportant - but only part of the story

• The WLN Fund is about more than literacy and numeracy gains

• We need to be able to convey the productivity gains and business outcomes that are delivered

• …as well as the personal, whanau and community benefits that may result

• This is important both for TEC reporting and for making the case for continued investment in training (WLN and other training) back to businesses.

Skills Highway Roadshows

Māori and Pasifika Project

• Two-year project co-funded by Ako Aotearoa• Team: Cain Kerehoma, Laloifi(Ifi) Ripley, Nicky

Murray, Anne Alkema• Looking to find out:

– Factors and approaches that lead to successful economic, social and wellbeing outcomes for Māori and Pasifika employees in workplace literacy programmes

– The extent to which these approaches incorporate responsive pedagogies and the concept of ako and how these are practised and articulated

– How Māori and Pasifika employees continue to develop their skills and transfer them to their working, whānau and community lives

Changes at TEC

• Darel Hall, Principal Advisor Skills Highway, TEC

Gary Basham

National Manager Migrant Futures, TEC

Claire Matheson, Coffee Educators Ltd

Coffee Educators has trained more than 140 students with a range of physical, mental and neurological disabilities in its Training Centres in Wellington and Christchurch, teaching them how to make coffee and how to operate in a diverse environment, and has provided customer service-based New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) training for all its learners.

Gary Sharpe and Hannah Hughson

Tina Rose, Education Unlimited

http://www.skillshighway.govt.nz/resources/learning-progressions/speaking-and-listening

Haere rā

Safe travels from the Skills Highway team