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Agriculture Power and Machinery
Agriculture Power and Machinery is an instructional program designed to provide entry-level skills for students to become employed in the industry of agricultural power mechanics, including skills in selection, operation, service, maintenance, and repair of a variety of agricultural power units and agricultural machinery and equipment. The program includes instruction in gas and diesel engines, welding, hydraulics, small engines, and other power systems. This program makes use of the FFA Leadership, Professional Development Activities, and Supervised Agricultural experience programs as integral learning laboratories. 2 elective Carnegie Units.
The first year of the secondary allied health skill program introduces the student to the health careers field, the basic health sciences, and basic skills in both laboratory and clinical. Upon completion of this first year introductory course, the student would be competent as a general basic health assistant. The student will be better able to make a choice of a health occupation that he/she plans to pursue. This course is taught for one year, and earns 2.0 elective Carnegie Units, with 1 of the 2 credits counting as a Science credit toward graduation, and the other 1 as an elective toward graduation.
The emphasis of the second year is primarily to expose students to advanced skills in the various health occupations. Students will apply these skills during clinical experience rotations in selected health care facilities. This course is taught for one year and earns 2.0 elective Carnegie Units as an elective toward graduation.
Allied Health includes a minimum of 100 hours of clinical-type experience over the two years of coursework. Students who complete Allied Health may count earned credit as 1 science credit toward graduation requirements.
Adult classes are available to those who wish to enroll in evening classes. A minimum of 10 students is required for an evening class to make.
Automotive Technology is a two-year instructional program that prepares students for entry-level employment in semi-skilled positions in the automotive repair and service industry, or for entry into post-secondary Automotive Technology programs. Automotive Technology consists of two one-year courses, each nine months in length. Each course must be taught in a minimum tow class period block. The first-year course in the program includes instruction in the foundation skills related to safety, tool and equipment usage, measurement, basic automotive service, and brake and electrical system service. The second-year course provides students with foundation skills related to engine performance, drive trains, steering and suspension systems, and air conditioning/heating service.
Students who successfully complete the course will earn 2.0 Carnegie Units of elective coursework toward fulfilling graduation requirements.
Adult classes are available to those who wish to enroll in evening classes. A minimum of 10 students is required for an evening class to make.
Adult classes are available to those who wish to enroll in them. There must be 10 students enrolled to make a class.
Building Trades Technology I is an instructional program that orients the individual to the field of Building Trades. Study in this course allows an individual to prepare for employment or continued education in the occupations of Carpentry, Electrical Wiring, Masonry, or Plumbing. Included are units of study in Introduction and Orientation, Basic Safety, Basic Math, Introduction to Hand Tools, Introduction to Power Tools, Introduction to Blueprints, Introduction to Rigging, Introduction to Electrical Wiring, Introduction to Masonry, Introduction to Plumbing. 2.0 elective Carnegie Units, depending on time spent in the course.
Building Trades Technology II is a continuation of Building Trades Technology I, and allows the individual to prepare for employment or continued education in the occupations of Carpentry, Electrical Wiring, Masonry, or Plumbing. Included are units of study in Basic Safety (Review); Advanced Carpentry; Advanced Electrical Wiring; Advanced Masonry; and Advanced Plumbing. 2.0 elective Carnegie Units, depending on time spent in the course.
Adult night classes are available to those who wish to enroll in them. A minimum of 10 students is required to make a class.
Business and Computer Technology
Business and Computer Technology I is the entry level course of the secondary Business and Computer Program. Students in Business and Computer Technology I will gain foundation competencies related to work environment, document processing, desktop publishing, office systems, employability skills, file and records management, communications, financial applications, and telecommunications. 2.0 elective Carnegie Units, depending upon time spent in the course.
Business and Computer Technology II is the advanced level course of the secondary Business and Computer Program. Students in Business and computer Technology II will gain advanced competencies related to application management, office systems, multimedia, web page design, communication and management skill, and careers. 2.0 elective Carnegie Units, depending upon time spent in the course.
Adult night classes are available to those who wish to enroll in them. A minimum of 10 students is required to make a class.
Cooperative Education is a two-year secondary training program designed for eleventh and twelfth grade students. The program combines work-readiness preparation, related occupational classroom instruction, and worksite training elements. A minimum of 540 hours of worksite training is required each year for each student, resulting in 2 1/2 elective Carnegie Units toward graduation. Students attend the TECH for one period daily.
Course Outline
First Year
· Directly Related Career Instruction
· Orientation
· Personal Assessment
· Job Acquisition
· Human/Interpersonal Relations
· Mathematics for the Workplace
· Taxation
· Communication in the Workplace
· Technology in the Workplace
· Health, Safety, and First Aid
· Business Etiquette
· Work Experience
Second Year
· Directly Related Instruction
· Orientation
· Financial Management
· Independent Living
· Consumer Rights and Responsibilities
· Time Management/Organizational Skills
· Technology in the 21st Century
· Quality Assurance
· Management's role in the Workplace
· Work Experience
The Metal Trades Technology program is designed as a cluster program for preparation to enter the metal working trades industry. Metal Trades I includes an introduction to the basic metal working processes. Metal Trades Technology II requires that students choose one of two options (Advanced Welding Option or Advanced Machine Shop Option). The purpose of the course is to prepare students to continue study in a postsecondary metal trades program or to begin work at the entry level in a metal trades occupation, and provides the student with 2.0 elective Carnegie Units.
National Standards Developed by American Welding Society (AWS)
The welding competencies required in this curriculum were developed to coincide with the Specification for Qualification and Certification for Entry Level Welders (AWS QC 10-95), developed by the American Welding Society and funded by the U. S. Department of Education under Grant V.244 B 3006. The contributions of this resource are hereby acknowledged.
The American Welding Society provides a series of reference materials to support this curriculum. For additional information on AWS educational membership, contact: American Welding Society, AWS Education Department, 550 N. W. LeJeune Road, Miami, FL 33161. Phone (800) 443-WELD. FAX: (305) 443-7559.
This curriculum has been aligned to modules in the Wheels of Learning program as endorsed by the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER). Students who study this curriculum using the Wheels of Learning materials under the supervision of an instructor who has been certified by the NCCER are eligible to be tested on each module. Students who successfully pass these tests may be certified to the NCCER by the instructor and will receive documentation form NCCER.
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