2023-2024 Course Standards

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Essential standards (highlighted in green below) are big, powerful ideas that are necessary and essential for students to know to be successful in a course. Essential standards identify the appropriate verb and cognitive process intended for the student to accomplish. Essential standards provide value throughout a student's career, in other courses, and translate to the next level of education or world of work.

Objectives/Indicators (rows not highlighted in green below) provide another level of detail for each Essential Standard.

Adapted or Adopted Course includes essential standards and, in many cases, specific objectives/indicators aligned with business and industry standards and/or criteria for credentials or certifications. The course standards are designed using the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT). If the POL is a CTE State Assessment, the course is written at the level of the ESSENTIAL STANDARD and assesses the intended outcome of the sum of its objectives/indicators.

The six NC Essential Employability Skills are Communication, Ethics, Problem Solving, Professionalism, Resource Management, and Teamwork. These skills are covered among the course essential standards and objectives/indicators as listed beside each. NC CTE curriculum provides and supports career awareness, career exploration, career development, technical skill development, and career readiness where six Essential Employability Skills are included in CTE Curriculum Standards. CTE builds a career and college ready workforce through the K-12 pipeline and provides a consistent and 'common language' for identification of the six Essential Employability Skills.

Career and Technical Education conducts all activities and procedures without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, gender, or disability. The responsibility to adhere to safety standards and best professional practices is the duty of the practitioners, teachers, students, and/or others who apply the contents of this document.

This blueprint has been reviewed by business and industry representatives for technical content and appropriateness for the industry.

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Standard/Obj #: The essential standard is denoted by the digits before the dot; objectives/indicators are indicated by the final 2 digits.
Standard: Essential standard and specific objective/indicator statements per essential standard. Each essential standard statement or specific objective/indicator begins with an action verb and makes a complete sentence when combined with The learner will be able to... Outcome behavior in each essential standard or objective/indicator statement is denoted by the verb plus its object.
Course Weight: Shows the relative importance of each essential standard or objective/indicator. Course weight is used to help determine the percentage of total class time that is spent on each objective/indicator.
RBT Designation: Classification of outcome behavior in essential standards and indicator statements in Dimensions according to the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy:
Cognitive Process Dimension: 1 Remember, 2 Understand, 3 Apply, 4 Analyze, 5 Evaluate, 6 Create.
Knowledge Dimension: A Factual Knowledge, B Conceptual Knowledge, C Procedural Knowledge.

IM61 Welding Technology I

Course Type: Adopted

Standard/Obj #	Standard/Objective	Course Weight	RBT Designation	Essential Employability Skills
1.00	Apply Procedures to complete AWS SENSE Module 2 - Safety and Health of Welders	10%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Communication Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management
1.01	Demonstrate proper use and inspection of personal protection equipment (PPE).	2%	-	Communication Problem Solving Professionalism Resource Management
1.02	Demonstrate proper safe operation practices in the work area.	2%	-	Communication Problem Solving Resource Management
1.03	Demonstrate proper use and inspection of ventilation equipment.	1%	-	Communication Problem Solving Resource Management
1.04	Demonstrate proper Hot Zone operation.	1%	-	Communication Problem Solving Resource Management
1.05	Demonstrate proper work actions for working in confined spaces.	1%	-	Communication Problem Solving Resource Management
1.06	Demonstrate proper use of precautionary labeling and SDS information.	2%	-	Communication Problem Solving Resource Management
1.07	Demonstrate proper inspection and operation of equipment used for each welding and thermal cutting process.	1%	-	Communication Problem Solving Resource Management
2.00	Apply Procedures to complete AWS SENSE Module 8 - Thermal Cutting Process - Safety	5%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Problem Solving Resource Management
2.01	Perform safety inspections of manual and mechanized OFC equipment and accessories.	3%	-	Problem Solving Resource Management
2.02	Perform safety inspections of manual PAC equipment and accessories.	1%	-	Problem Solving Resource Management
2.03	Perform safety inspections of manual CAC-A equipment and accessories.	1%	-	Problem Solving Resource Management
3.00	Apply Procedures to complete AWS SENSE Module 8 - Thermal Cutting Process - Unit 1: Manual Oxyfuel Cutting and Unit 2: Mechanazied Oxyfuel Gas Cutting	19%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Problem Solving Resource Management
3.01	Make minor external repairs to manual and mechanized OFC equipment and accessories.	3%	-	Problem Solving Resource Management
3.02	Set up for manual and mechanized OFC operations on carbon steel.	6%	-	Problem Solving Resource Management
3.03	Operate manual and mechanized OFC equipment on carbon steel.	5%	-	Resource Management
3.04	Perform straight and shape, square and bevel edge cutting operations in flat position, on carbon steel.	5%	-	-
4.00	Apply Procedures to complete AWS SENSE Module 8 -Thermal Cutting Process -Unit 3 Manual Plasma Arc Cutting	9%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Problem Solving Resource Management
4.01	Make minor external repairs to manual PAC equipment and accessories.	2%	-	Problem Solving Resource Management
4.02	Sets up for manual PAC operations on carbon steel, austenitic stainless steel, and aluminum.	2%	-	Problem Solving Resource Management
4.03	Operate manual PAC equipment on carbon steel, austenitic stainless steel, and aluminum.	2%	-	Resource Management
4.04	Perform straight and shape, square edge, cutting operations, in the flat position, on carbon steel, austenitic stainless steel, and aluminum.	3%	-	-
5.00	Apply Procedures to complete AWS SENSE Module 8 -Thermal Cutting Process -Unit 4 Manual Air Carbon Arc Cutting	5%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Problem Solving Resource Management
5.01	Make minor external repairs to manual CAC-A equipment and accessories.	1%	-	Problem Solving Resource Management
5.02	Set up for manual CAC-A scarfing and gouging operations on carbon steel.	1%	-	Problem Solving Resource Management
5.03	Operate manual CAC-A equipment on carbon steel.	1%	-	Resource Management
5.04	Perform scarfing and gouging operations to remove base and weld metal, in the flat and horizontal positions, on carbon steel.	2%	-	-
6.00	Apply Procedures from AWS SENSE Module 4 - Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) Safety	5%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Problem Solving Resource Management
6.01	Perform safety inspections of SMAW equipment and accessories.	2%	-	Problem Solving Resource Management
6.02	demonstrate safe working pratices as described in American National Standard Z49.1	3%	-	-
7.00	Apply Procedures from AWS SENSE Module 4 - Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) Base Metal Prep and Welding Positions	12%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Problem Solving Resource Management
7.01	Operate SMAW equipment on carbon steel.	4%	-	-
7.02	Prepares base metal for welds	4%	-	Problem Solving
7.03	Identifies and performs various welding positions	4%	-	Resource Management
8.00	Apply Procedures from AWS SENSE Module 4 - Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) Equipment Setup	17%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Problem Solving Resource Management
8.01	Make minor external repairs to SMAW equipment and accessories.	5%	-	Problem Solving Resource Management
8.02	Set up for SMAW operations on carbon steel.	12%	-	Problem Solving Resource Management
9.00	Apply Procedures from AWS SENSE Module 4 - Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) Fillet Weld	18%	C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply	Resource Management
9.01	Make fillet welds in all positions on carbon steel.	9%	-	-
9.02	Perform welds using E6010, E6011, or E7018 electrodes	9%	-	Resource Management