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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.