TAS1O COURSE OUTLINE

Course Title: Technology and the Skilled Trades
Grade: 9

Ministry Course Code: TAS1O

Course Type: Open

Credit Value: 1.00

Course Hours: 110

Department: Technological Education Courses

Revision Date: N/A

Policy Document:
Technological Education, The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 and 10, 2009 (Revised)

https://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/secondary/teched910curr09.pdf

Prerequisite: None

Domestic Student Price: $550
International Student Price: $799

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

This hands-on course enables students to further explore the engineering design process and develop other technological knowledge and skills introduced in earlier grades. Students will design and safely create prototypes, products, and/or services, working with tools and technologies from various industries. As students develop their projects to address real-life problems, they will apply technological concepts such as precision measurement, as well as health and safety standards. Students will begin to explore job skills programs and education and training pathways, including skilled trades, that can lead to a variety of careers.

OVERALL EXPECTATIONS

TECHNOLOGY FUNDAMENTALS

By the end of this course, students will:

· A1. demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental concepts and skills required in the planning and development of a product or service, including the use of a design process and/or other problem-solving processes and techniques;

· A2. demonstrate the ability to use a variety of appropriate methods to communicate ideas and solutions;

· A3. evaluate products or services in relation to specifications, user requirements, and operating conditions.

TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS

By the end of this course, students will:

· B1. use problem-solving processes and project-management strategies in the planning and fabrication of a product or delivery of a service;

· B2. fabricate products or deliver services, using a variety of resources

TECHNOLOGY, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND SOCIETY

By the end of this course, students will:

· C1. demonstrate an awareness of the effects of various technologies on the environment;

· C2. demonstrate an awareness of how various technologies affect society, as well as how society influences technological developments.

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

By the end of this course, students will:

· D1. follow safe practices and procedures when using materials, tools, and equipment;

· D2. identify careers in various technological fields, and describe the educational requirements for them

OVERALL EXPECTATIONS

TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES

A variety of teaching and learning strategies are used to allow students many opportunities to attain the necessary skills for success in this course and in future studies. In all activities, consideration will be taken to ensure that individual students’ multiple intelligences and learning strengths are addressed through the use of varied and multiple activities in each lesson.

STRATEGIES FOR ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE

The primary purpose of assessment and evaluation is to improve student learning. Assessment and evaluation is based on the Ministry of Education’s Growing Success policy document, which articulates the Ministry’s vision for how assessment and evaluation is practiced in Ontario schools.

Growing Success describes the three assessment types as follows:

Assessment as Learning: focuses on the explicit fostering of students’ capacity over time to be their own best assessors, but teachers need to start by presenting and modelling external, structured opportunities for students to assess themselves.
Assessment for Learning: the process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go, and how best to get there.
Assessment of Learning: the assessment that becomes public and results in statements or symbols about how well students are learning.

ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION

EVALUATION SCHEME

A final grade (percentage mark) is calculated at the end of the course and reflects the quality of the student’s achievement of the overall expectations of the course, in accordance with the provincial curriculum.

The final grade will be determined as follows:

Seventy percent (70%) of the grade will be based on evaluation conducted throughout the course. This portion of the grade should reflect the student’s most consistent level of achievement throughout the course, although special consideration should be given to more recent evidence of achievement.
Thirty percent (30%) of the grade will be based on a final evaluation administered at or towards the end of the course. This evaluation will be based on evidence from one or a combination of the following: an examination, a performance, an essay, and/or another method of evaluation suitable to the course content. The final evaluation allows the student an opportunity to demonstrate comprehensive achievement of the overall expectations for the course.

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is a serious offense. It is defined as taking words, phrasing, sentence structure, or any other element of the expression of another person’s ideas, and using them as if they were your own. Plagiarism is a violation of another person’s rights, whether the material taken is great or small.Students will be assisted in developing strategies and techniques to avoid plagiarism. They need to be aware that plagiarized term work will be penalized and could result in a mark of zero.