2020 Curriculum and Planning Tools Are Ready

The 2020-21 electrical training ALLIANCE curriculum continues to roll out some new and exciting resources. First, the ’20-21 Training Essentials catalog was released in April, and made available for download by logging into the member’s area of our site. The ’20-21 student Syllabi, and the Course Level and Credit Summary (CLCS) Catalog and Roadmap view worksheets are also available… well…in the CLCS. Now as we near the July 1 date for the ’20-21 content use, many courses have been made available.

Syllabi

The syllabi for all programs show the recommended curriculum path (Courses and Lessons) for each program and year. The courses mirror those listed in the 2020 Training Essentials catalog for each year and program respectively. If you are looking for the ability to customize a syllabus, you can do that by using the CLCS.

CLCS Catalog and Roadmap Worksheets

Catalog View Worksheets

The CLCS default views have now been updated to display the 2020-21 Catalog views. These views are made visible when first selecting the Program (Outside, Inside, Installer/Tech, Substation, or Residential). The sheet selection button allows catalogs from previous years to still be viewable. However, the Catalog view is designed to support the training program perspective—you can teach the same course to multiple years of apprenticeship during a particular year. This is not the sheet that you would use to create verification that any customization of the curriculum delivery is meeting the minimum requirements to complete the specified program’s apprenticeship. You would also not sum up all years together, for catalog views allow the same course to be displayed in multiple years because it may need to be taught to multiple years of apprenticeship, during the same school year.

For information on the lesson outlines and course descriptions, utilize the CLSC and the 2020-21 Training Essentials Catalog. In the CLCS, click on the course name to view the full description of the course.

Roadmap View Worksheets

The Roadmap view, as we call it, is designed to support a vision of what courses an apprentice, or a group of apprentices, would need to complete on their “road” from the beginning of, to the completion of, their apprenticeship. This view summarizes all of the appropriate credits for Inside, I/T, and Residential, and maintains prerequisite support information, etc. The April 22, 2020 blog has the instructions for how to access the Roadmap view to plan the curriculum for the new incoming apprentices. If you need help with any CLCS functionality, be sure to check out the CLCS User’s Guide.

New Courses Recently Made Available

The electrical training ALLIANCE has recently turned on new courses that are now visible in the TMS.  If you are not yet seeing ’20-21 courses available in the TMS they are still currently under construction and will be ready on or by fall.

Here is a list of those courses turned on just last week.

New Courses Coming Soon

As always, if you have any questions or need help, please reach out to Steve Strickland, our friendly customer service representative, by phone at 888.652.4007 or by email at sstrickland@electricaltrainingalliance.org.

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