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This publication contains the three numeracy units of the three levels of Support Materials for Agricultural Training (SMAT) in farm management and leadership: Level 1 (starting), 2 (continuing), and 3 (completing). The units are designed to help the learner improve his or her numeracy skills needed to deal with farm management. SMAT materials can be used by the individual, with a mentor, or in a group or class. An introduction describes how to use the materials, types of activities, and materials needed. Each level contains agriculture-related mathematics activities. Model answers are provided. Topics covered in Level 1 are as follows: calculator use; invoices and payment advice sheets; percentage and decimals; and measuring length, area, and perimeter. Topics covered in Level 2 are budgets, costs, and comparing costs to income. Topics covered in Level 3 are measuring and volume. (YLB)

This publication contains the three numeracy units of the three levels of Support Materials for Agricultural Training (SMAT) in the area of farmers as employers: Level 1 (starting), 2 (continuing), and 3 (completing). The units are designed to help the learner improve his or her numeracy skills needed to deal with employment of agriculture workers. SMAT materials can be used by the individual, with a mentor, or in a group or class. An introduction describes how to use the materials, types of activities, and materials needed. Each level contains agriculture-related mathematics activities. Model answers are provided. Topics covered in Level 1 are pay slips, tax, and seasonal workers. Topics covered in Level 2 are as follows: calculating wages, percentage, piecework, workforce, nonseasonal workers, tax rates, and leave loading. Topics covered in Level 3 include the following: holiday pay, superannuation, WorkCover premiums, casual labor, total wage costs, long service leave, and trainees. (YLB)

This publication contains the three communication skills units of the three levels of Support Materials for Agricultural Training (SMAT) in the area of farmers as employers: Level 1 (starting), 2 (continuing), and 3 (completing). The units are designed to help the learner improve his or her written and spoken communication and numeracy skills needed to deal with employment of agriculture workers. SMAT materials can be used by the individual, with a mentor, or in a group or class. An introduction describes how to use the materials, types of activities, and materials needed. Four types of activities are found in the communication unit: key word activities, reading activities, writing activities, and spoken communication activities. Model answers are provided. Topics covered in Level 1 are as follows: jobs on the farm, employment conditions, job descriptions, interviews, job advertisements, and job application letters. Topics covered in Level 2 include the following: person specifications, job advertisements, personal history forms, negotiations, tax, employment declaration forms, and employment surveys. Topics covered in Level 3 are as follows: job advertisements and applications, resumes, interviewing management staff, training and profitability, and motivating people. (YLB)

This publication contains the three communication skills units of the three levels of Support Materials for Agricultural Training (SMAT) in agricultural production: Level 1 (starting), 2 (continuing), and 3 (completing). The units are designed to help the learner improve his or her written and spoken communication skills needed to deal with agricultural production. SMAT materials can be used by the individual, with a mentor, or in a group or class. An introduction describes how to use the materials, types of activities, and materials needed. Four types of activities are found in the communication unit: key word activities, reading activities, writing activities, and spoken communication activities. Model answers are provided. Topics covered in Level 1 are commodities, discussions, yellow pages, a census form, and information sheets. Topics covered in Level 2 are exports to Asia, crop information, fertilizers, mind your language, and land care. Topics covered in Level 3 are conservation and land care, gathering information, consulting the experts, and negotiating with the bank. (YLB)

This publication contains the three communication skills units of the three levels of Support Materials for Agricultural Training (SMAT) in farm management and leadership: Level 1 (starting), 2 (continuing), and 3 (completing). The units are designed to help the learner with the reading, writing, and spoken communication skills needed to deal with farm management. SMAT materials can be used by the individual, with a mentor, or in a group or class. An introduction describes how to use the materials, types of activities, and materials needed. Four types of activities are found in the communication unit: key word activities, reading activities, writing activities, and spoken communication activities. Model answers are provided. Topics covered in Level 1 are application forms, application forms--longer answers, interviews, scanning the classified ads, get to the point, farm management in a drought, and letters. Topics covered in Level 2 include the following: farm plans, farm mission statements, export grants, applications for funding, women and farm management, meetings, fruit industry tariffs, and formal letters. Topics covered in Level 3 are as follows: sustainable property plans, working with others, talking quality, marketing your produce, mission statements and objectives, and social issues. (YLB)

This publication contains the three numeracy units of the three levels of Support Materials for Agricultural Training (SMAT) in agricultural production: Level 1 (starting), 2 (continuing), and 3 (completing). The units are designed to help the learner improve his or her numeracy skills needed to deal with agricultural production. SMAT materials can be used by the individual, with a mentor, or in a group or class. An introduction describes how to use the materials, types of activities, and materials needed. Each level contains agriculture-related mathematics activities. Model answers are provided. Topics covered in Level 1 are yield (or production), conversion, consumption, and application rates. Topics covered in Level 2 are cost/benefit analysis, cropping, costing, and whole farm change. The topic covered in Level 3 is collecting information. (YLB)

This publication contains the three numeracy units of the three levels of Support Materials for Agricultural Training (SMAT) in the area of occupational health and safety: Level 1 (starting), 2 (continuing), and 3 (completing). The units are designed to help the learner improve his or her numeracy skills needed to deal with occupational safety and health. SMAT materials can be used by the individual, with a mentor, or in a group or class. An introduction describes how to use the materials, types of activities, and materials needed. Each level contains agriculture-related mathematics activities. Model answers are provided. Topics covered in Level 1 are graphing and reading graphs. Topics covered in Level 2 are making comparisons and why do we need statistics? Topics covered in Level 3 are cost/risk analysis--single item and cost/risk analysis--whole farm. (YLB)

This publication contains the three communication skills units of the three levels of Support Materials for Agricultural Training (SMAT) in the area of occupational health and safety: Level 1 (starting), 2 (continuing), and 3 (completing). The units are designed to help the learner improve his or her written and spoken communication skills needed to deal with occupational safety and health. SMAT materials can be used by the individual, with a mentor, or in a group or class. An introduction describes how to use the materials, types of activities, and materials needed. Four types of activities are found in the communication unit: key word activities, reading activities, writing activities, and spoken communication activities. Model answers are provided. Topics covered in Level 1 are as follows: danger on the farm, talking safety, rollover protection, chemicals, chemicals: emergency and first aid, accidents and injuries, emergencies, and tractor accidents. Topics covered in Level 2 include the following: safe chemical use, children on farms, getting your message across, zoonoses, and talking farming. Topics covered in Level 3 are as follows: a farm accident, WorkCover Certificate of Capacity, worker's claim for compensation, employer claim report, farm electrical safety, and creating networks. (YLB)

This document, intended to assist Australia's national industry training advisory bodies, is a practical guide to developing English language, literacy, and numeracy inclusive national training packages. The guide is divided into three sections devoted to the following topics: (1) context (literacy in the workplace, literacy in training, literacy in national training packages, procedures for identifying categories of communication used in the workplace and required literacy and numeracy skills, and an overview of the National Training Package); (2) endorsed components of the National Training Package (literacy in competency standards, literacy in assessment guidelines, and literacy in national qualifications); and (3) nonendorsed components of the National Training Package (literacy in the learning strategy, literacy in assessment materials, and literacy in professional development materials). The benefits of literacy and literacy training to employers and employees are illustrated by way of actual examples that have been included throughout sections 1 and 2. Appended are the following: overview of Australian Qualifications Framework levels; reference to the National Reporting System; states' accredited curricula aligned to the National Reporting System; states' language, literacy, and numeracy support services; and annotated list of 19 recommended resources. Contains 13 references and a list of recommended readings and a glossary. (MN)

This guide, which is intended for language and literacy teachers and researchers who are becoming interested in the Internet, offers a brief overview of using the Internet and explains how to access various language and literacy resources. Part 1, which is devoted to Internet basics, examines the following topics: the Internet (e-mail, mailing lists, newsgroups, file transfer protocol, the World Wide Web); connection to the Internet (hardware and software needs, useful books and magazines, setting up a connection); Internet account selection (types of accounts, Internet service providers). Discussed in part 2 are using e-mail and mailing lists and using and searching the World Wide Web. In part 3 instructions are provided for accessing the following language and literacy databases/resources: National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia database; ERIC database; and National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research resources. Part 4 is an annotated listing of eight Australian websites and eight international websites that are considered important to language and literacy teachers and researchers. Presented in part 5 are the Internet addresses of 55 language and literacy websites, 27 mailing lists, and 10 newsgroups and a glossary. (MN)

The guide provides information about a series of instructional materials for teaching Indonesian as a second language. The materials consist of audio recordings from Sanggar Prathivi, a Christian educational radio station in Jakarta (Indonesia), and scripts from the programs contained on diskettes (recordings and diskettes not included here). Two types of radio program are included: educational broadcasts (nine series, each consisting of about 24 episodes on related issues) and drama/entertainment broadcasts (eleven series, each with 10-30 episodes). The guide contains: background information about the materials; a summary list of series titles with episode quantities, lengths, and general themes; general suggestions for classroom use of the materials (targeted listening skills, activities, other classroom applications); and for each series in both broadcast categories, notes on cassette contents, including episode lengths, titles (in Indonesian and English), and topics. In the case of dramas, story outlines are provided. (MSE)