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Diversity and Inclusion, Indigenous, Needs AnalysisASS-3.1, ASS-3.3, ASS-4.1, DES-1.1, DES-1.2, DES-1.3, DES-1.4, DES-1.5, SFS-1.2, SFS-3.8
Training partners include individuals and groups who are involved in and/or impacted by training programs, such as participants, funders, training organizations, employers, instructors, supervisors, mentors, peers and community members. The competency framework uses the term training partners to avoid negative associations with the term stakeholders.
Transfer of learning occurs when participants apply information, strategies and skills they have learned in the training room to a new situation or context, such as further training or the workplace.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that helps give all participants an equal opportunity to succeed. This approach offers flexibility in the ways participants access material, engage with it and show what they know.
Validity and Reliability both refer to how well a method is measured.
Validity refers to the whether the results really do represent what they are supposed to measure.
Reliability refers to whether the results can be reproduced under the same conditions.
Virtual conferencing is hosting or meeting in a virtual environment online. Virtual conferencing allows participants to connect with instructors and other participants no matter where they are located.
Vocabulary building strategies are used to help improve participants’ vocabulary. There are several strategies that are used such as repetition, word connection, context and flash cards.
Writing organizational strategies can help decide how to present the information in writing and depends on what you are writing, who you are writing for and where will your writing be read. These strategies include outlines, brainstorming and graphic organizers.
Writing teaching and learning materials are designed to increase participants’ ability to share information using written words, symbols, and images.
The following links include practical, printable, ready-made resources to use in the delivery of Skills for Success training.
Zone of proximal development is defined as the space between what a participant can do without assistance and what they can do with guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.
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