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Appendix A: Determining a Trade Pathway for Students

During the renewal of the Practical and Applied Arts (PAA), Saskatchewan Education signed an articulation agreement for Welding with Saskatchewan Post-Secondary Education and Skills Training (SPEST), Apprenticeship Trade Certification Commission (ATCC), and Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST). Before renewing the program in Welding or starting such a program, teachers must be aware of the following processes and procedures – in summary.

1. As Welding requires a certain level of maturity, it is recommended that certain modules for Middle Level be made available to grade 9 students only as part of a Survey course. Welding modules available for grade 9 students are listed in the PAA Survey Guidelines.
2. Pure 100 hour courses are available in Welding beginning at the grade 10 Level. Welding modules may also be configured into a PAA Survey course(s) at the 10, 20, 30 levels.
3. Students may take Welding 10, 20, 30 with no intent to pursue a Welding career. Therefore, no articulation procedures need be followed.

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, along with 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. Articulation agreements among these 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 ACTU High School to Apprenticeship. 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 in Appendix B of these Welding Guidelines must be covered thoroughly by the certified teacher and students.
• If possible, practical experiences must be simulated in the school setting or work study modules must be used in partnership with a local business and journeyperson.
• If the teacher is not a journeyperson, the teacher must have taken the Level I Summer Short course offered in partnership by Saskatchewan Education, ATCC, SIAST, SIEA, and the STF. This course will certify teachers to teach Level I theory and evaluate Level I practice in their school or as part of a work study partnership.
• To challenge Level I, the teacher should recommend only those students who have successfully completed the Level 1 practical, and who have aspirations to pursue further training in the apprenticable 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 should be achieving at the 80% range in all aspects of the apprenticeable Welding Curriculum Guidelines.
• The students must state their intention to write the Level I Exam prior to the successful completion of the final high school course(s). They must receive permission to proceed.
• The teacher must notify ATCC at least 2 months prior to the writing of the Level I exam, state the intent to have students write, and indicate the number of exams required. Verification of the high school trade course marks and an 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 the Registrar’s Office, Student Records at Saskatchewan Education.
• Apprenticeship exams will be returned to the ATCC for grading and evaluation.
• Marks will be mailed to the student/school. ATCC will record the marks for the Level I exams. For more information about trade articulation and guidelines see the High School to Apprenticeship: Link to the Future document developed by ATCC.
• SIAST or ATCC notification of changes to the Level I apprenticeship requirements in the trade will be communicated to teachers via the Evergreen Curriculum area on the Saskatchewan Education website (www.sask.ed.gov.sk.ca).
• A high school graduate who has already received all the Secondary Level credits for Welding and who passes the Level I exam will receive:
  • advanced standing in the Welding program at SIAST
  • 400 hours of time credit recognition toward Level 1 apprenticeship in the trade for documented practical experience under a journeyperson when the course is taught by an accredited teacher or a teacher holding a journey status in the designated trade.

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

The modules have fidelity with the following SIAST modules:

Weld 120 General Shop Safety

Weld 120T Introduction to Shielded Metal Arc

Weld 121P Introduction to Shielded Metal Arc

Weld 122T Introduction to Oxy-Acetylene Welding

Weld 123P Introduction to Oxy-Acetylene Welding

Weld 124T Oxy-Acetylene Cutting and Safety

Weld 125P Oxy-Acetylene Cutting

Weld 134T Metallic Gas Arc Welding

Weld 135P Metallic Gas Arc Welding