During the renewal of the Practical and Applied Arts (PAA), Saskatchewan Education has signed an articulation agreement for Electricity with Saskatchewan Post-Secondary Education and Skills Training (SPEST), Apprenticeship and Trade Certification Commission (ATCC) and Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST).

Before school divisions start or renew a program in Electrical, they must be aware that the Electrical and Electronics Curriculum Guide requires a certain level of student maturity. Certain modules are recommended for Middle Level and the modules available for grade 9 students are listed in the PAA Survey Guideline section of the Practical and Applied Arts Handbook.

Pure 100 hour courses are available in the Electrical and Electronics Curriculum Guide beginning at the grade 10 Level. Students may take Electrical 10, 20, A30, B30 with no intent to pursue a related career.

Saskatchewan Education, in consultation with the PAA Reference Committee, has agreed to develop adequate hours of provincial curriculum in the various designated trades areas of high school curriculum. They also agreed to provide limited practical experience, to meet the Level I requirements (or their equivalent), as outlined by the Apprenticeship and Trade Certification Commission (ATCC) of Saskatchewan Post-Secondary Education and Skills Training (SPEST), in collaboration with the Trade Board (TB).

Articulation agreements among the educational partners have been established to accommodate high school graduates who have met the Level I requirements outlined in the high school curricula and who have followed the procedures specified by the ATCC High School to Apprenticeship: Linking to the Future. A Handbook for High School Administrators and Student Counsellors. Those students may challenge the

Level I trade exam. Successful students will receive Level I theory advanced standing in appropriate SIAST programs, and Prior Learning Assessment Recognition (PLAR) time credit hours for time spent with a journeyperson in the workplace, toward apprenticeship standing in the trade.

Training plans included in Appendix B have been designed to provide direction for Level I skill development in the classroom and in the workplace.

• Everyone must have studied High School to Apprenticeship: Link to the Future (1999).

• The Level I theory identified below in Appendix A of this Electrical and Electronics Curriculum Guide must be covered thoroughly by the certified teacher and students.

• Practical experiences must be simulated in the school setting or through the optional work study modules used in partnership with local businesses and journeypersons.

• If the teacher is not a journeyperson, the teacher must take an approved accreditation course. This will provide the necessary background skills to evaluate Level I theory and practice in their school, for students who are following the trade pathway to apprenticeship.

• To challenge Level I, the teacher should recommend only those students who have successfully completed the Level I practical and who have aspirations of pursuing further training in the apprenticeship trade. Registration for the Level I exam is managed by ATCC. Students challenging the Level I apprenticeship theory exam must attain a mark of 70% to pass; therefore, they should probably be achieving at the 80% range or higher in all aspects of the apprenticeship course guide.

• The students must state their intention to write the Level I exam prior to the successful completion of the final high school course(s) and they must receive permission to proceed from the qualified instructor.

• The teacher must notify ATCC at least two months prior to the writing of the Level I exam, stating the intention to have students write and indicating the number of exams required. Verification of the high school trade course marks and the examination fee must be submitted for each student eligible to write.

• The ATCC will administer the Level I exams to high school students during the January and June Departmental Examination writing sessions as arranged. The dates for the writing weeks are established annually and distributed to the schools in the Registrar’s Handbook for School Administrators. (Contact Student Records at Saskatchewan Education).

• Apprenticeship exams will be returned to the ATCC for grading and evaluation.

• Marks will be mailed to the student at the school. ATCC will record the marks for the Level I exams. For more information about trade articulation and a guide, see the High School to Apprenticeship: Link to the Future document developed by ATCC.

• SIAST and ATCC will make notification of change to the Level I apprenticeship requirements in the trade to teachers via the Evergreen Curriculum web-site at Saskatchewan Education.

• A high school graduate who has already received all the Secondary Level credits for Electricity and who passes the Level I exam will receive 300 hours of advanced standing in the Electrician program at SIAST. Those students will also receive time credit recognition for practical experience under a journeyperson, provided appropriate documentation has been maintained.

The following Saskatchewan Education PAA Electrical and Electronics 10, 20, A30, B30 Curriculum Guide modules must be successfully completed in order to meet the Level I requirements in the trade:

 

 

The above modules have fidelity with the following SIAST modules:

BT120	Basic Theory, Electricity
BT 121	Basic Theory, Cells and Batteries
BT123	Basic Theory, Power Loads
WM120	Wiring Methods
BWC122	Extra Low Voltage Controls
BWC120	Basic Wiring Circuits, Regulations
BWC121	Basic Wiring Circuits, Conductors
PLS120	Single Dwelling Service Requirements
PLS121	Electrical Drawings