Essential Skills Manual - Automotive Service Technician

ESSENTIAL SKILLS TECHNICAL READING
GUIDELINES
Introduction to the Curriculum Guidebook
Automotive Service Technician
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Success in technical training and performance on the job requires that apprentices
have strong Essential Skills. Although all Essential Skills contribute to success, this
guide is intended to help apprentices in the automotive trade develop the reading
strategies necessary to locate, understand, interpret and recall information
presented in a variety of text formats common to the trade.
It is assumed that the instruction for the Technical Reading course will not be timetabled
as such, but instructors will use a cross-curricular approach to incorporate
reading strategies using the materials of the trade.
The following guide outlines a list of recommended resources (see Appendix A) for
each objective in the Technical Reading curriculum framework and, where possible,
includes online website materials that complement these resources. Three formats
are provided to allow learners the opportunity to review competencies in a way that
best suits their needs. These resources are categorized as follows:
Non-contextualized - Curriculum resources that are not related to any
trade or occupation. These resources may be used to review the
competencies in a stand-alone manner before transferring the skill to traderelated
materials.
Contextualized - Curriculum resources that provide Essential Skills
applications in the context of a specific trade or occupation.
Technical – Trade-training materials from which Essential Skills are
extracted. For the purpose of the Trade Essentials project, Individual
Learning Modules from Alberta Advanced Education were used as the
primary technical resource.
Note: Though only some modules are outlined as resources for specific objectives,
all Individual Learning Modules can be used for the instruction of Essential
Ski lls.
The list of resources has been designed to act only as a guide and, therefore, may
need to be adapted to meet the needs of individuals or groups. It is the role of you,
the instructor, to choose materials and deliver its content as it best suits individual
learner needs. A variety of materials are listed under each set of competencies for
this purpose.
The following websites contain both automotive related and generic content which
may be used as an additional reading forum.
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