Steering Committee: Ontario Regulators for Access Edwina McGroddy Presented at CLEAR's 23rd Annual Conference Toronto, ON September 2003
Genesis of Project: Spring 2000 n Regulators Talk to Each Other n Meetings facilitated and hosted by the Maytree Foundation
Educational Sessions n Competency-based Assessment n Scanning the Horizon: Access Issues for Regulators n Rising Standards: The impact on Access to Professions for the Foreign- Trained n Developing Professionally Relevant and Fair Language Testing n Perspectives from the Outside
Educational Sessions n Competency-based Assessment n Scanning the Horizon: Access Issues for Regulators n Rising Standards: The impact on Access to Professions for the Foreign- Trained n Developing Professionally Relevant and Fair Language Testing n Perspectives from the Outside
Steering Committee n Grant opportunity from Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities n Terms of Reference n Project Proposal: Project Coordinator hired
Doing the Work n Research Interviews Surveys Documents n Publications Compendium of promising practices Guiding principles How to guide Resource guide
Doing the Work (con’t) n Website n Regulators’ Forums
Champions of the Cause n Money/Resources n People/Structure
Challenges n Tangible (participation, jurisdictional boundaries, liability, measurable outcomes) n Intangible (visibility, government input, shape/face of entity)
Momentum in moving forward n Steering Committee is bigger than the project n Sustainability n What next…?
Presentation Follow-up n Please pick up a handout from this presentation n Presentation materials will be posted on CLEAR’s website n Contact: Edwina McGroddy at or (after October 17)