Title: Building Trades I (17009-I)

Demonstrating Personal Qualities and Abilities
  Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
  Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving.
  Demonstrate initiative and self-direction.
  Demonstrate integrity.
  Demonstrate work ethic.
  WorkplaceReadinessSkillsPoster2019.pdf
Demonstrating Interpersonal Skills
  Demonstrate conflict-resolution skills.
  Demonstrate listening and speaking skills.
  Demonstrate respect for diversity.
  Demonstrate customer service skills.
  Collaborate with team members.
Demonstrating Professional Competencies
  Demonstrate big-picture thinking.
  Demonstrate career- and life-management skills.
  Demonstrate continuous learning and adaptability.
  Manage time and resources.
  Demonstrate information-literacy skills.
  Demonstrate an understanding of information security.
  Maintain working knowledge of current information-technology (IT) systems.
  Demonstrate proficiency with technologies, tools, and machines common to a specific occupation.
  Apply mathematical skills to job-specific tasks.
  Demonstrate professionalism.
  Demonstrate reading and writing skills.
  Demonstrate workplace safety.
Examining All Aspects of an Industry
  Examine aspects of planning within an industry/organization.
  Examine aspects of management within an industry/organization.
  Examine aspects of financial responsibility within an industry/organization.
  Examine technical and production skills required of workers within an industry/organization.
  Examine principles of technology that underlie an industry/organization.
  Examine labor issues related to an industry/organization.
  Examine community issues related to an industry/organization.
  Examine health, safety, and environmental issues related to an industry/organization.
Addressing Elements of Student Life
  Identify the purposes and goals of the student organization.
  Explain the benefits and responsibilities of membership in the student organization as a student and in professional/civic organizations as an adult.
  Demonstrate leadership skills through participation in student organization activities, such as meetings, programs, and projects.
  Identify Internet safety issues and procedures for complying with acceptable use standards.
Exploring Work-Based Learning
  Identify the types of work-based learning (WBL) opportunities.
  (Optional) Reflect on lessons learned during the WBL experience.
  Explore career opportunities related to the WBL experience.
  (Optional) Participate in a WBL experience, when appropriate.
Core Construction Skills: Applying Basic Construction Safety Standards (Core Safety): Electricity I
  Comply with federal, state, and local safety legal requirements.
  Earn the OSHA 10-hour card.
  Identify personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements.
  Maintain a safe working environment.
  Explain safe working practices around electrical hazards.
  Identify emergency first-aid procedures.
  Identify the types of fires and the methods used to extinguish them.
  Inspect course-specific hand and power tools to identify defects.
  Demonstrate lifting and carrying techniques.
  Demonstrate safe laddering techniques.
  (Optional) Demonstrate safe scaffolding techniques.
  Report personal injury, violations of environmental regulations, and equipment safety violations to the appropriate authority.
  Pass the safety exam.
Core Construction Skills: Understanding Local, State, and Federal Regulations
  Identify local, state, and federal regulations for a tradesman license.
  Identify local, state, and federal regulations for operating a business.
Core Construction Skills: Applying Fundamental Construction Skills
  Identify common hand and power tools.
  Identify units of length, weight, volume, and temperature.
  Read a ruler.
  Demonstrate the use of instruments for measurement.
  Identify various pipe dimensions.
  Solve mathematical problems.
  Convert decimals to percents and percents to decimals.
  Convert fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions.
  Identify the basic geometric formulas for shapes common in construction.
  Identify basic blueprint terms, components, and symbols.
  Identify classifications of drawings.
Masonry: Using Masonry Skills
  Identify tools specific to masons.
  Spread mortar.
  Apply head joints.
  Strike joints.
  Identify types and sizes of brick.
Masonry: Laying Concrete Masonry Units
  Apply block head joints.
  Identify types and sizes of block.
Masonry: Identifying and Mixing Masonry Cements
  Mix masonry cements.
  (Optional) Select masonry cement based on a specific job.
Carpentry: Using Basic Carpentry Skills
  Identify tools specific to carpenters.
  Check stock and/or assemblies for squareness.
  Determine whether surfaces are level or plumb.
  Handle and store materials.
  Identify materials.
  (Optional) Maintain hand tools.
  Cut stock.
Carpentry: Framing a Floor
  Identify the sill plate.
  Identify the floor joists and crown.
Carpentry: Framing Walls
  Cut wall plates.
  Identify studs, headers, jacks, rough sills, and cripples.
  Identify the framing layout on wall plates.
  Identify corner and tee posts.
  Identify the parts of an exterior wall system.
Electricity: Applying Basics of Electricity
  Describe basic electrical theory.
  Identify tools specific to electricians.
  Identify basic electrical wiring devices.
  Describe installation procedures for GFCI and AFCI devices.
  Identify a transformer.
  Wire basic residential switching operations.
  Wire duplex receptacles.
  Wire GFCI receptacles.
Electricity: Selecting and Installing Conductors
  Identify types of conductors.
  Install conductors.
  Make connections with lugs, connectors, and terminals.
  (Optional) Select conductors for specific applications.
  Install nail plates to protect conductors.
Plumbing: Performing Plumbing Basics
  Identify tools specific to plumbers.
  Cut copper tubing.
  Cut plastic pipe.
  Construct copper tubing assembly, using solder joints.
  Calculate fitting allowance.
  Join plastic pipe (i.e., tubing) to fittings, using solvent.
  Join cross-linked polyethylene (PEX) pipe (i.e., tubing), using crimp fittings.
ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION
  8515 Student Competency Record_Copyright 2019.xlsx
  8515 Standards Correlations.pdf
  8515 Credentials-Sequences-Clusters.pdf
  8515 8516 Acknowledgments and Copyright.pdf