2010/2011 Competency-Based Task/Competency List

Tasks/competencies designated by bullets in the left-hand column are considered essential statewide and are required of all students. In some courses, all tasks/competencies have been identified as essential. Tasks/competencies without bullets are considered optional; they and/or additional tasks/competencies may be taught at the discretion of the school division. Tasks/competencies marked with an asterisk (*) are considered sensitive, and teachers should obtain approval by the school division before teaching them.

Please note: Each task number links to additional framework information, including the task definition, SOL correlation, and other related data.

8402 co-op not available 18 weeks	Technology Foundations TASKS/COMPETENCIES
	Workplace Readiness Skills: Personal Qualities and People Skills
•	001	Demonstrate positive work ethic.
•	002	Demonstrate integrity.
•	003	Demonstrate teamwork skills.
•	004	Demonstrate self-representation skills.
•	005	Demonstrate diversity awareness.
•	006	Demonstrate conflict-resolution skills.
•	007	Demonstrate creativity and resourcefulness.
	Workplace Readiness Skills: Professional Knowledge and Skills
•	008	Demonstrate effective speaking and listening skills.
•	009	Demonstrate effective reading and writing skills.
•	010	Demonstrate critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
•	011	Demonstrate healthy behaviors and safety skills.
•	012	Demonstrate an understanding of workplace organizations, systems, and climates.
•	013	Demonstrate lifelong-learning skills.
•	014	Demonstrate job acquisition and advancement skills.
•	015	Demonstrate time-, task-, and resource-management skills.
•	016	Demonstrate job-specific mathematics skills.
•	017	Demonstrate customer-service skills.
	Workplace Readiness Skills: Technology Knowledge and Skills
•	018	Demonstrate proficiency with technologies common to a specific occupation.
•	019	Demonstrate information technology skills.
•	020	Demonstrate an understanding of Internet use and security issues.
•	021	Demonstrate telecommunications skills.

	All Aspects of Industry
•	022	Examine planning at the level of both an individual business and the overall industry.
•	023	Explain management in terms of methods typically used to manage enterprises over time within the industry, as well as methods for expanding and diversifying workers' tasks and broadening worker involvement in decisions.
•	024	Examine finance in regard to ongoing accounting and financial decisions and different methods for raising capital to start or expand enterprises.
•	025	Describe technical and production skills that cover specific production techniques and alternative methods for organizing the production work, including methods that diversify and rotate workers' jobs.
•	026	Examine the underlying principles of technology that provide an integrated study across the curriculum of the mathematical, scientific, social, and economic principles that underlie the industry's technology.
•	027	Examine labor issues in terms of worker rights and responsibilities, labor unions and labor history, and methods for expanding workers' roles.
•	028	Describe community issues in terms of the impact of the industry on the community and the community's impact on and involvement with the industry.
•	029	Examine concepts of health, safety, and environmental issues in relation to both the workers and the larger community.
	Addressing Elements of Student Life
•	030	Identify the purposes and goals of the student organization.
•	031	Explain the benefits and responsibilities of membership in the student organization as a student and in professional/civic organizations as an adult.
•	032	Demonstrate leadership skills through participation in student organization activities, such as meetings, programs, and projects.
•	033	Identify Internet safety issues and procedures for complying with acceptable use standards.
	Using Information as a Technological Resource
•	034	Obtain information through interviews, computer databases, and media resource centers.
•	035	Convey three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface, using conventional and computer technology.
•	036	Use various technologies to prepare and present information regarding technological solutions.
•	037	Identify career opportunities in a variety of technological systems.
	Using Materials as a Technological Resource
•	038	Identify materials by the major family groups.
•	039	Trace materials used in common products to their source.
•	040	Use tools, machines, and processes to change materials.
•	041	Select materials for specific applications according to their properties.
•	042	Recycle materials for useful means.
•	043	Apply safety procedures and practices.

	Using Energy as a Technological Resource
•	044	Identify the sources of energy used in technological devices.
•	045	Describe major forms of energy.
•	046	Control the use of energy with mechanical, electrical, fluidic, and thermal systems.
•	047	Conserve energy through technological modification.
	Analyzing Consumer Products
	048	Identify ways that consumer products have impacted people, society, and the environment.
	049	Select a consumer product to analyze.
	050	Gather product information.
	051	Record information about the product, using computer technology.
	052	Present information about the product, using computer technology.
	053	Analyze how the product works, using mathematical and scientific concepts.
	054	Identify an innovation that would improve the product.
	055	Draw illustrations or construct models of the improved product.
	056	Construct a display to explain the improved product, emphasizing mathematical and scientific concepts.
	057	Report results of data collection, product analysis, and product improvement.
	Understanding Technological Systems
•	058	Explain the concept of a technological system.
•	059	Distinguish between a system and a subsystem.
•	060	Describe the impacts of technological systems on people, society, and the environment.
	Designing and Building a System Controlled by Computers or Electronics
•	061	Analyze a problem whose solution uses computer or electronic controls.
•	062	Obtain information on the computer- or electronically-controlled options for solving the problem.
•	063	Design the computer- or electronics-controlled application to be used for solving the problem.
•	064	Construct a model of the application.
•	065	Control the application with computers or electronics.
•	066	Present information about the application, demonstrating how the controls work.
	Designing a New or Improved Product to Solve a Problem
	067	Identify the needs and wants of people in school, home, community, or world that could be solved through technological change.
	068	Write a statement of the technological problem to be solved.
	069	Gather information about the technological problem to be solved.
	070	Create ideas, sketches, notes, and graphics of alternative solutions.

	071	Select the best solution by applying knowledge of mathematics, science, technology, and other subjects.
	072	Build a prototype of the best solution.
	073	Evaluate the solution by comparing it with the problem statement.
	074	Present the new or improved product to others.

Last Modified on August 13, 2010

Verga, T. (Technology Education)