Why are Essential Skills Important?
Essential Skills are the foundational skills we use in ____, _____, and _____?
What is Work, Learning, and Life?
You read the bus schedule to determine what time the bus will arrive at your bus stop.
What is Document Use?
What percentage of Canadians cannot complete a Level 1 task?
What is 4%?
Name 1 of the 5 categories that summarize the key impacts of Essential Skills.
- Labour Market
- On the Job
- In Formal Learning and education
- Daily Life
- In communities
Without Essential Skills, you cannot obtain these other types of skills?
What is Job Specific Skills and Technical Skills?
You ask for clarification on the details of a project at work.
What is Oral Communication?
What is the average time a Canadian at an Essential Skill Level 1 or 2 will spend unemployed?
What is 38 weeks?
Efficiency with completing tasks, ability to learn new tasks, accuracy and do over rates, overall performance including attendance and quality of work and what are benefits of good Essential Skills for on the job?
What is Safety?
True or False: Your life is impacted by YOUR Essential Skill level?
What is true?
You estimate how much your grocery bill will cost.
What is Numeracy?
What percentage of jobs require people to have an Essential Skill Level 3?
What is 56%?
In formal learning and education, capacity to learn new or complex skills, completion rates, and what are benefits from good Essential Skills?
What is your ability to transfer and apply knowledge from one situation to the next.
True or False: You use more than one Essential Skill at a time and they are interwoven with other tasks?
What is True?
You review the Job Description to learn about the terms of the new job.
What is Reading Text?
How much of a person's wage relates to their Essential Skill level?
What is 30%?
In daily life, you overall health and wellness, individual longevity, children's life chances, likelihood of living poverty and what are benefits from good Essential skills?
What is Educational Attainment?
True or False: You don't need Essential Skills for some occupations?
What is False?
You coordinate and schedule the tasks required to complete a project with coworkers.
What are Thinking Skills?
What Essential Skill do people rarely see as needing improvement but in reality is one they struggle with more often.
What is Document Use
In communities, utilization of social welfare resources, community building and development, civic engagement (voting, volunteering, etc.) and what are benefits of good Essential Skills?
What is economic prosperity?