The Ministry of Transportation has a variety of official handbooks, including:
Driver’s Handbook
This handbook is designed for anyone learning to drive in Ontario. It's all here - rules of the road, safe driving practices and how to get a licence to drive a car, van or small truck.
https://www.ontario.ca/document/official-mto-drivers-handbook
Bus Handbook
This handbook was created for anyone applying for a licence to operate a bus or school bus. This guide provides the information needed to qualify for class B, C, E or F driver's licences.
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/handbook/bus/index.shtml
Truck Handbook
This handbook was developed for people interested in applying for a class A or D driver's licence. This resource shares the information people need to understand what's expected during a driving test.
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/trucks/handbook/index.shtml
Air Brake Handbook
This guide provides the information people need to know when applying for an Air Brake (Z) Endorsement on their licences.
https://www.ontario.ca/document/official-air-brake-handbook/
The “Food Safety Guide” is an excellent resource to use with learners who are interested in employment in the food industry. Safe food handling critically important in order to keep people safe from illness and disease and to produce the highest quality food possible.
The “Food Safety Guide” covers the following topics:
The Landscaping and Grounds Maintenance Worker Curriculum is 327 pages long and contains instructional materials, learning activities, tips, resources and practitioner notes.
This curriculum contains the following chapters.
The purpose of the Learning to Earning videos is to showcase how and why literacy/adult upgrading can be part of a learner’s future success. Job seekers can view the videos for free online. The information contained in the videos shows job seekers how they can utilize the services of Ontario’s Literacy and Basic Skills Agencies to help them succeed in their job search.
The videos are:
The final report can be downloaded below.
The “National Occupational Classification” (NOC) is Canada’s national system for describing occupations.
You can search the NOC website to find where an occupation is classified or to learn about its main duties, educational and employment requirements, skill levels and other useful information.
The “National Occupational Classification” is a massive online database of occupations and comprises about 30,000 job titles! It is a helpful resource for career planning and labour market information.
The website is easy searchable via job title or via the 4-digit NOC code.
The Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development develops and maintains an excellent website on Ontario’s labour market. This website contains a goldmine of helpful resources, including information about labour market statistics, work trends, and the skills, education and training people need for jobs today, and in the future. This labour market information is extremely useful to help adult learners assess their goals and plan for employment.
Topics covered include:
The Skilled Trades in Ontario website houses a wide variety of information and resources pertaining to the skilled trades in Ontario. Job seekers can access a list of different skilled trades, a job bank, and resources to help them succeed in their job search.
The website covers topics such as:
This guide examines what workforce Essential Skills programming is, how it can be designed and who benefits from it. Workforce Essential Skills is a pre-employment adult education approach that extends beyond job search and résumé writing, to focus on helping participants develop the abilities they will need on the job.
This resource guides organizations through a five-stage process of implementation:
“Up Skills for Work” helps adult learners develop key employability skills through free downloadable workbooks. There are nine workbooks in this series.
The workbooks in the “Up Skills for Work” series cover the following skills:
The Learning Networks of Ontario created the “Soft Skills Resources” website to share information and resources that will help practitioners to build the soft skills of adult learners.
The “Soft Skills Resources” website is designed to:
The website is divided into three sections: