Essential Skills Manual - Automotive Service Technician
Essential Skills Manual - Automotive Service Technician
Essential Skills Manual - Automotive Service Technician
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SECTION 1 – INTRODUCTION<br />
TECHNICAL SKILLS<br />
INVENTORY (TSI)<br />
<strong>Automotive</strong> <strong>Service</strong><br />
<strong>Technician</strong><br />
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Points to Consider<br />
80% of learning in a trade happens in the workplace.<br />
Every workplace in every province and territory has its own unique<br />
learning culture.<br />
Each journeyperson has their individual approach to guiding an<br />
apprentice.<br />
Every apprentice will write the same national exam.<br />
Background<br />
The road to a trade certification has many paths. For an apprentice who has<br />
not taken the pre-apprentice training and Block/Period/Level in-school route,<br />
it can be a difficult road to navigate. The primary focus appears to be<br />
accumulating enough hours for eligibility to challenge the Interprovincial<br />
(Red Seal) Exam.<br />
The one tool that is available, if an apprentice chooses the<br />
Block/Period/Level route, is the Provincial Log Book. This Log Book tracks<br />
the Blocks, Tasks and Sub-tasks that an apprentice has learned in the<br />
workplace. For apprentices who have chosen the route through which 100%<br />
of their learning happens in the workplace, it can be difficult to “know what<br />
you don’t know.” On this path, the apprentices never had a log book, so in<br />
order to challenge, they have their journeyperson sign off on the blocks<br />
when they have accumulated the hours required to challenge the IP<br />
certification exam in their trade.<br />
Provincial/territorial log books are developed from the National Occupational<br />
Analysis (NOA) in a trade. Most apprentices are never introduced to the NOA<br />
of their trade even though it is used to develop trades curriculum,<br />
block/period/level tests and the IP exam.<br />
Technical <strong>Skills</strong> Inventory (TSI)<br />
The Technical <strong>Skills</strong> Inventory (TSI) is created from the NOA. It is a selfassessment<br />
tool designed to give apprentices the opportunity to reflect on<br />
their technical skills, identify skills gaps and make a plan to fill those gaps<br />
before they challenge the IP exam.<br />
The TSI also provides information for <strong>Essential</strong> <strong>Skills</strong> assessors to create<br />
technical skills learning plans for individual apprentices and <strong>Essential</strong>s <strong>Skills</strong><br />
program instructors. These learning plans are used by the instructor and<br />
the apprentice to select technical skills resources that support <strong>Essential</strong><br />
<strong>Skills</strong> learning programs.<br />
Feature<br />
The TSI “Group Summary” has formulas imbedded so data can be easily<br />
extracted and manipulated for presentation in a pie chart format.<br />
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