Core Curriculum

Learn in the classroom:

• The construction industry.
• The benefits of a construction career.
• Typical career path for craft professionals.
• Ways to pursue a career in the construction industry.

Learn in the classroom:

• The benefits of safety, the cost of workplace incidents, and ways to reduce related
  hazards.
• Common fall hazards and methods to prevent them.
• Recognizing and avoiding struck-by and caught-in-between hazards.
• Common electrical hazards and how to avoid them.
• Personal protective equipment (PPE) and the hazards they reduce or eliminate.
• Safety practices used with other common job-site hazards.

Learn in the classroom:

• Solve basic arithmetic problems with whole numbers.
• Fraction types and calculating with fractions.
• Decimal numbers and calculating with them
• Common length-measuring tools and use them to measure lengths accurately.
• Common length, weight, volume, and temperature units in both the inch-pound and metric systems and convert them into other comparable units.
• Angles and geometric shapes, as well as calculating their areas or volumes.

Learn in the classroom:

• Common hand tools and state how to use them.
• Common measurement and layout tools and describe how to use them.
• Hand tools common to shops and job sites.

Learn in the classroom:

• Various types of power drills and impact wrenches.
• How to use various types of power saws.
• The types of jobs best suited to grinders and oscillating multi-tools.
• How to use miscellaneous power tools.

Learn in the classroom:

• Components and features used in construction drawings and how the drawings are different.

Learn in the classroom:

• Types of rigging slings.
• Hardware.
• Equipment.

Learn in the classroom:

• The relationship between communication, listening, and speaking processes and how it
  affects job performance.
• The relationship between good reading and writing skills and how it affects job
  performance.

Learn in the classroom:

• Opportunities in the construction businesses and how to enter the construction
  workforce.
• The importance of critical thinking and how to solve problems.
• How good social skills are applied in the construction trade and why they are important.

Learn in the classroom:

• The basic concepts of material handling.
• Common safety precautions.
• Various types of material handling equipment and how they are used.