2024-2025 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.

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 Number: The essential standard is denoted by the digits before the dot; objectives/indicators are indicated by the final 2 digits.
  • Standard/Objective: 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 NumberStandard/ObjectiveCourse WeightRBT Designation
1.00Apply Procedures to complete AWS SENSE Module 2 - Safety and Health of Welders10%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply
1.01Demonstrate proper use and inspection of personal protection equipment (PPE).2%-
1.02Demonstrate proper safe operation practices in the work area.2%-
1.03Demonstrate proper use and inspection of ventilation equipment.1%-
1.04Demonstrate proper Hot Zone operation.1%-
1.05Demonstrate proper work actions for working in confined spaces.1%-
1.06Demonstrate proper use of precautionary labeling and SDS information.2%-
1.07Demonstrate proper inspection and operation of equipment used for each welding and thermal cutting process.1%-
2.00Apply Procedures to complete AWS SENSE Module 8 - Thermal Cutting Process - Safety5%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply
2.01Perform safety inspections of manual and mechanized OFC equipment and accessories.3%-
2.02Perform safety inspections of manual PAC equipment and accessories.1%-
2.03Perform safety inspections of manual CAC-A equipment and accessories.1%-
3.00Apply Procedures to complete AWS SENSE Module 8 - Thermal Cutting Process - Unit 1: Manual Oxyfuel Cutting and Unit 2: Mechanized Oxyfuel Gas Cutting19%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply
3.01Make minor external repairs to manual and mechanized OFC equipment and accessories.3%-
3.02Set up for manual and mechanized OFC operations on carbon steel.6%-
3.03Operate manual and mechanized OFC equipment on carbon steel.5%-
3.04Perform straight and shape, square and bevel edge cutting operations in flat position, on carbon steel.5%-
4.00Apply Procedures to complete AWS SENSE Module 8 -Thermal Cutting Process -Unit 3 Manual Plasma Arc Cutting9%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply
4.01Make minor external repairs to manual PAC equipment and accessories.2%-
4.02Sets up for manual PAC operations on carbon steel, austenitic stainless steel, and aluminum.2%-
4.03Operate manual PAC equipment on carbon steel, austenitic stainless steel, and aluminum.2%-
4.04Perform straight and shape, square edge, cutting operations, in the flat position, on carbon steel, austenitic stainless steel, and aluminum.3%-
5.00Apply Procedures to complete AWS SENSE Module 8 -Thermal Cutting Process -Unit 4 Manual Air Carbon Arc Cutting5%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply
5.01Make minor external repairs to manual CAC-A equipment and accessories.1%-
5.02Set up for manual CAC-A scarfing and gouging operations on carbon steel.1%-
5.03Operate manual CAC-A equipment on carbon steel.1%-
5.04Perform scarfing and gouging operations to remove base and weld metal, in the flat and horizontal positions, on carbon steel.2%-
6.00Apply Procedures from AWS SENSE Module 4 - Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) Safety5%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply
6.01Perform safety inspections of SMAW equipment and accessories.2%-
6.02Demonstrate safe working practices as described in American National Standard Z49.1.3%-
7.00Apply Procedures from AWS SENSE Module 4 - Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) Base Metal Prep and Welding Positions12%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply
7.01Operate SMAW equipment on carbon steel.4%-
7.02Prepares base metal for welds4%-
7.03Identifies and performs various welding positions4%-
8.00Apply Procedures from AWS SENSE Module 4 - Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) Equipment Setup17%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply
8.01Make minor external repairs to SMAW equipment and accessories.5%-
8.02Set up for SMAW operations on carbon steel.12%-
9.00Apply Procedures from AWS SENSE Module 4 - Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) Fillet Weld18%C3 Procedural Knowledge - Apply
9.01Make fillet welds in all positions on carbon steel.9%-
9.02Perform welds using E6010, E6011, or E7018 electrodes9%-