2012/2013 Competency-Based Task/Competency List for Carpentry I (8601/co-op not available/36 weeks, 140 hours)

Demonstrating Workplace Readiness Skills: Personal Qualities and People Skills

1. Demonstrate positive work ethic.
2. Demonstrate integrity.
3. Demonstrate teamwork skills.
4. Demonstrate self-representation skills.
5. Demonstrate diversity awareness.
6. Demonstrate conflict-resolution skills.
7. Demonstrate creativity and resourcefulness.

Demonstrating Workplace Readiness Skills: Professional Knowledge and Skills

1. Demonstrate effective speaking and listening skills.
2. Demonstrate effective reading and writing skills.
3. Demonstrate critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
4. Demonstrate healthy behaviors and safety skills.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of workplace organizations, systems, and climates.
6. Demonstrate lifelong-learning skills.
7. Demonstrate job-acquisition and advancement skills.
8. Demonstrate time-, task-, and resource-management skills.
9. Demonstrate job-specific mathematics skills.
10. Demonstrate customer-service skills.

Demonstrating Workplace Readiness Skills: Technology Knowledge and Skills

1. Demonstrate proficiency with technologies common to a specific occupation.
2. Demonstrate information technology skills.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of Internet use and security issues.
4. Demonstrate telecommunications skills.

Examining All Aspects of an Industry

1. Examine aspects of planning within an industry/organization.
2. Examine aspects of management within an industry/organization.
3. Examine aspects of financial responsibility within an industry/organization.
4. Examine technical and production skills required of workers within an industry/organization.
5. Examine principles of technology that underlie an industry/organization.
6. Examine labor issues related to an industry/organization.
7. Examine community issues related to an industry/organization.
8. Examine health, safety, and environmental issues related to an industry/organization.

Addressing Elements of Student Life

1. Identify the purposes and goals of the student organization.
2. Explain the benefits and responsibilities of membership in the student organization as a student and in professional/civic organizations as an adult.
3. Demonstrate leadership skills through participation in student organization activities, such as meetings, programs, and projects.
4. Identify Internet safety issues and procedures for complying with acceptable use standards.

Applying Basic Construction Safety Standards (Core Safety)

1. Comply with federal, state, and local safety legal requirements, including OSHA, VOSHA, and EPA.
2. Identify PPE (personal protective equipment) requirements.
3. Inspect and maintain a safe working environment.
4. Explain safe working practices around electrical hazards.
5. Identify emergency first aid procedures.
6. Identify the types of fires and the methods used to extinguish them.
7. Inspect course-specific hand and power tools to visually identify defects.
8. Demonstrate lifting and carrying techniques.
9. Demonstrate safe laddering techniques.
10. Demonstrate safe scaffolding techniques.
11. Report injuries.
12. Report personal, environmental, and equipment safety violations to the appropriate authority.
13. Earn the OSHA 10 card.
14. Pass safety exam.

Focusing on the Carpentry Profession

1. Explain the role that safety plays in carpentry.
2. Define "job-site safety."
3. Identify the responsibilities and personal characteristics of a professional craftsperson.
4. Explain the construction industry, the role of companies that make up the industry, and the role of individual professionals in the industry.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of computer systems, and explain common uses for computers in the construction industry.
6. Explain workplace issues such as sexual harassment, stress, and substance abuse.

Introducing Construction Math

1. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers, with and without a calculator.
2. Use a standard ruler and a metric ruler to measure.
3. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions.
4. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals, with and without a calculator.
5. Convert decimals to percents and percents to decimals.
6. Convert fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions.
7. Explain what the metric system is and how it is important in the construction trades.
8. Identify and use metric units of length, weight, volume, and temperature.
9. Identify some of the basic shapes used in the construction industry and apply basic geometry to measure them.

Introducing Hand and Power Tools

1. Identify some of the basic hand tools and commonly used power tools used in the construction trade.
2. Care for and safely use basic, common hand tools and power tools.

Interpreting Blueprints

1. Identify basic blueprint terms, components, and symbols.
2. Relate information on blueprints to actual locations on the print.
3. Identify different classifications of drawings.
4. Interpret and use drawing dimensions.
5. Read/interpret scale.

Using Communication Skills

1. Demonstrate the ability to understand information and instructions that are presented in both written and oral form.
2. Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively in on-the-job situations, using written and oral communication skills.

Performing Basic Carpentry Skills

1. Check stock and/or assemblies for squareness.
2. Measure materials, using tape measure.
3. Determine levelness and plumbness of surfaces, using a level.
4. Handle/store materials.
5. Identify materials.
6. Maintain/make minor adjustments to hand tools.

Cutting and Shaping Stock

1. Crosscut and ripsaw stock to size.
2. Bore holes.
3. Square stock to 90 degrees.
4. Cut miter joint.

Assembling and Fastening Components

1. Apply clamping devices.
2. Fasten stock with metal fasteners (for example, nails, screws, staples, and other mechanical fasteners).
3. Explain the safe use of nail guns.

Building and Installing Foundations and Forms

1. Set up builder's level.
2. Establish elevation points from a benchmark.

Framing a Floor

1. Check condition of foundation to comply with local building codes before framing begins.
2. Install sill plate.
3. Install solid or composite wood beam/girder.
4. Read/lay out floor framing detail on sill plate.
5. Cut and crown floor joists.
6. Install floor joists, including cantilever floor joists.
7. Install bridging and blocking.
8. Install subfloor sheathing.
9. Select appropriate floor-framing fasteners and adhesives.

Framing Walls

1. Lay out floor deck for walls.
2. Cut wall plates.
3. Read/lay out wall framing layout on wall plates.
4. Cut studs, headers, jacks, rough sills, and cripples.
5. Assemble corner and tee posts.
6. Assemble header.
7. Frame door opening.
8. Frame window opening.
9. Assemble wall sections, including metal studs.
10. Install double top plate (cap plate).
11. Install wall blocking (backing).
12. Install fire stops.
13. Install corner brace.
14. Install exterior wall sheathing.
15. Raise and anchor wall section.
16. Plumb, align, and brace wall section.

Framing a Ceiling

1. Read ceiling layout/lay out ceiling framing detail on top wall plate.
2. Cut ceiling joists.
3. Install ceiling joists.
4. Frame ceiling opening.
5. Install strongback (stiffener or catwalk).

Framing a Roof

1. Read/lay out roof framing detail on cap plate.
2. Read/lay out common, header, and cripple rafters.
3. Lay out common rafter as a pattern.
4. Reproduce common rafters from a pattern.
5. Install ridgeboard.
6. Install rafters.
7. Frame gable end.
8. Frame gable dormer.
9. Install roof sheathing.

Installing Trusses

1. Read truss detail and lay out for truss installation.
2. Describe the safe selection, setting, and anchoring of trusses by hand or by crane.
3. Brace roof assembly.

Installing Roofing

1. Install roof felt.
2. Install 3-tab composite shingle.
3. Install ridge cap.

Constructing and Installing Stairs

1. Calculate rise and run for stairs.
2. Lay out straight run stair stringer.
3. Cut stair component.
4. Construct unfinished stair unit.

Installing Exterior Doors and Windows

1. Install prehung exterior door units.
2. Install prehung windows.

Framing Decks and Porches

1. Review building codes related to decks.

Installing Exterior Finishes

1. Construct box and rake cornice.
2. Install facia.
3. Install soffit.
4. Cut and install corner board for siding.
5. Install siding and accompanying accessories.

Installing Interior Finishes

1. Install gypsum board.
2. Install paneling and trim.
3. Install shelving.
4. Install baseboard.
5. Install ceiling molding.
6. Case interior opening.
7. Install interior door jamb.
8. Install prehung interior door unit.