Resources

Food Services Preparation Module 3 - Basic Recipe Costing and Food Cost Percentage Pricing

This module is the third in a five-part series. It can be used to support learners in LBS and/or pre-apprenticeship who are interested in food service/cooking. In this module, participants will learn how to determine the cost of recipes using a calculator and Microsoft Excel. They will also learn how to calculate the menu price per portion of a recipe based on a given food cost. An additional activity includes contacting a wholesale food distributor and placing a “mock order”. Familiarity with Excel at an introductory level is recommended. Answer keys for practice activities are provided.

Food Services Preparation Module 4 - Basic Kitchen Science

This module is the fourth in a five-part series. It can be used to support learners in LBS and/or pre-apprenticeship who are interested in food service/cooking. This module covers science fundamentals as they apply to cooking, specifically nutrition, basic digestion, and heat. Although learners do not need background in basic science, there are terms and concepts that may require some additional explanation. A multiple-choice assessment (including the answer key) is included at the end of the module.

Food Services Project

This module is the fifth in a five-part series. Learners should complete the four food services modules associated with this project before starting it. The project tasks consolidates the basic kitchen math and science learned in the food services modules and provides students the opportunity to apply and present what they have learned by completing modules one through four.

Creating Apprenticeship Friendly LBS Services:  Apprenticeship and Understanding the Market Opportunity (Module #1)

Laubach Literacy Ontario (LLO) has developed a series of resources to support LBS agencies in increasing their capacity to support apprenticeship – with the goal of creating apprenticeship-friendly LBS services. There are four modules:

• Module 1: Apprenticeship and LBS – Understanding the Market Opportunity
• Module 2: Preparing a Learner for Apprenticeship
• Module 3: LBS and Apprenticeship Support
• Module 4: Supporting Apprentices to Become Journeypersons

• Describe the apprenticeship system
• Express reasons why LBS agencies could benefit from addressing apprenticeship as a goal path
• Learn why LBS is a good fit for apprentices
• Describe factors that are impacting the labour market and increasing the need for apprentices
• Perform a market analysis in your community
• Analyze the skills needs of the growing apprenticeship talent pool
• Identify apprenticeship stakeholders in your community
• Recognize how to work with apprenticeship stakeholders in your community
• State the required criteria for an LBS agency to serve the apprenticeship goal path
• Describe your agency’s current strengths related to serving the apprenticeship goal path
• Evaluate if increasing your involvement in apprenticeship is a good fit for your agency
• Prepare your staff to develop a service for learners on the apprenticeship goal path
• Express one or more areas of development for your agency to increase its ability to respond to the needs of the apprenticeship goal path
• Describe apprenticeship’s connection with the Skills for Success framework

Creating Apprenticeship Friendly LBS Services:  Supporting Apprentices to Achieve Certification (Module #4)

Laubach Literacy Ontario (LLO) has developed a series of resources to support LBS agencies in increasing their capacity to support apprenticeship – with the goal of creating apprenticeship-friendly LBS services. There are four modules:

• Module 1: Apprenticeship and LBS – Understanding the Market Opportunity
• Module 2: Preparing a Learner for Apprenticeship
• Module 3: LBS and Apprenticeship Support
• Module 4: Supporting Apprentices to Become Journeypersons

This modules focuses on how LBS service providers can support apprentices to succeed in the final steps of completing their apprenticeship journey.

• Understand why low apprenticeship completion rates are a challenge for Ontario.
• State reasons why apprentices struggle to complete their apprenticeships.
• Recognize the ways apprentices can finish their apprenticeship.
• Understand how to support apprentices with reading comprehension.
• Identify steps to take when apprentices experience text anxiety.
• Describe ways to support apprentices with learning how to study.
• Identify common math challenges that impact apprentices.
• Recognize why multiple-choice questions are challenging for apprentices.
• Describe potential accommodations apprentices can request for final exams.
• Identify how supporting apprentices with exam completion fits into the five LBS service functions.
• Determine if supporting apprentices with final exam completion is right for your LBS agency.
• Indicate supports available in Literacy and Basic Skills to support apprentices to successfully complete their apprenticeships.