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Check out these great NEW OSP tools and resources!
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| OSP Resource for Employment Ontario Programs |
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Welcome to this user-friendly OSP resource designed for use in Employment Ontario programs. It includes an OSP Action Plan for Job Seekers and a set of audio tips on how job seekers can use the OSP to assess and build their Essential Skills and work habits and transfer them to a job or further education or training. There are also print-based tips for job seekers, Action Centre coordinators and peer helpers, employment specialists/case managers and needs assessors, and adult educators.
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| A Guide to Linking Essential Skills and the Curriculum |
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Whether you teach in an elementary school, help adults upgrade their math skills, or create activities for use in physics classes, you are giving learners an opportunity to develop and practise their Essential Skills. But which Essential Skills are learners using? This guide outlines a two-step process for identifying and analysing Essential Skills in classroom activities which will help you uncover the Essential Skills learners are using and determine the skill demands.
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| OSP Key Messages |
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Key messages about how learners, parents, employers and teachers can use the OSP.
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| Messages for Employers |
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Job developers, co-operative education teachers, Business Education Council and Local Board representatives and others can use this resource to promote the OSP with employers.
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| New OSP Check-Up Self-Assessment Tools |
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Choose from three different self-assessments to get information on your Essential Skills and work habits. The two new self-assessments focus on Essential Skills tasks that you do in everyday life and Essential Skills tasks that you do or have done at work. You can compare your results to occupations you are interested in. You can also use your results to identify real workplace activity sets to help you practice and build your Essential Skills.
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| OSP Training Plan |
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If you are enrolled in a training program, such as Ontario Skills Development or Literacy and Basic Skills, create an OSP Training Plan for an occupation you want to enter. Your educator/ trainer can use the training plan to help create learning opportunities that focus on the Essential Skills and work habits you need to develop. Educators/trainers will record the demonstration of Essential Skills and work habits in your training plan. After the training program, you can use the information in your OSP Training Plan to update your résumé to communicate your Essential Skills and work habits to employers. You can also update your OSP Tracker with this information to track and plan further skills development.
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| OSP Resource for use in Career Studies |
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This resource includes the following: an OSP Key Messages chart that outlines how learners, parents, employers and teachers can use the OSP; tips for using the OSP in Career Studies; Putting the OSP into ACTION in Guidance and Career Education (OSCA Today, Fall 2009); OSP Promotional Materials such as the OSP Tracker; and the OSP Action Plan for Learners that provides a user-friendly overview of the different OSP tools and resources that learners can use to assess, build and put their Essential Skills and work habits into action.
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| OSP Action Plan for Learners - Updated: October 16, 2009 |
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The OSP Action Plan for Learners provides a user-friendly overview of the different OSP tools and resources that learners can use to assess, build and put their Essential Skills and work habits into action.
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| OSP Action Plan for Job Seekers - Updated: October 16, 2009 |
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The OSP Action Plan for Job Seekers provides a user-friendly overview of the different OSP tools and resources that job seekers can use to assess, build and put their Essential Skills and work habits into action.
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| "Skills ZONE" has been moved to the Resources section of the OSP. |
| My Essential Skills and Essential Skills Walkabout |
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My Essential Skills is a new OSP resource that can be used with individuals to introduce Essential Skills language. The Essential Skills Walkabout which is a group activity to introduce Essential Skills language has been updated.
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| New OSP Video
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Workers, learners and employers discuss how Essential Skills and work habits are used on the job and in daily life.
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| Occupations and Tasks
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Check out a great new addition to the OSP Occupational Profiles! Each occupational profile contains information
on how workers use their Essential Skills on the job as well as useful links to information on career exploration,
education and training and employment trends and opportunities. You can now click on the Canada Futures link in
any profile to get information on wages and job requirements for that occupation. This allows you to access even
more employment information in just one place.
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| OSP Partners
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We continue to expand OSP partnerships that help build competence, confidence and connections!
There are now two-way linkages between Career Cruising and the OSP occupational profiles to make
it easier for learners and job seekers to access relevant information, resources and tools that will
help them in their learning and career decisions. As well, the Employer Registry is now directly linking
employers, teachers, students and parents to OSP resources and tools which will help promote a common skills language.
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