Are you an assessor/practitioner helping adults develop their Essential Skills for employment? This 3 day training will prepare you to administer CAMERA (Communications and Math Employment Readiness Assessment) and use the associated curriculum guidelines (Signposts) and instructional materials (workwrite). Please read through the attached booklet for more information about the CAMERA System. Training Details Where? [...]

We recently hosted an open house to coincide with the official launch of Job Solutions Employment Services at our Dundas Street West location. On hand for the launch were Laurel Broten, MPP Etobicoke-Lakeshore, Bernard Trottier, MP Etobicoke-Lakeshore and Kaithy Wu, PTP’s Employment Training Consultant at the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. A very big [...]

In our communications class, we talked about our goals for when we leave PTP. We each came up with one goal and we talked about what was stopping us from reaching that goal, in other words, the barriers to our goal. We worked in teams and came up with different ideas about how to represent [...]

On November 9th, 2011, the WoodGreen Homeward Bound Program held its graduation at 66 Wellington St, in the TD Canada Trust Centre in downtown Toronto. Homeward Bound is a four year fully funded college track program for single mothers. PTP delivers the academic upgrading component of this four year program, assisting students with college preparation. [...]

NALD, the National Adult Literacy Database, has an excellent list of publishers and distributors who focus on literacy and essential skills. We’re very happy to join that list today. The full list can be viewed at http://www.nald.ca/extresources.

Our workwrite series is a collection of instructional workbooks and teacher’s guides focusing on the functions and features of workplace documents. We previously announced the availability of the workwrite series from Amazon.ca. Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of workwrite in PDF format. You can purchase these e-copies directly from PTP. More information [...]

Barbara McFater, PTP’s Executive Director, was recently honoured with a Senecans of Distinction Award. This award recognizes the exemplary partnership PTP has developed with Seneca College to deliver Academic Upgrading at PTP’s Danforth location.

Our workwrite series is a collection of instructional workbooks and teacher’s guides focusing on the functions and features of workplace documents. We’ve made the workwrite series available for purchase from Amazon.ca. You can view and purchase the books from our storefront. New to workwrite? You can read more at the workwrite page, and see all [...]