Basic Skills for School Maintenance Personnel
Objectives - Participants will be able to:
Communication
(1 Hour)
- Define communication
- Discuss the process of communication
- Understand the role of the sender in the communication cycle
- Identify communication rules
- Ask questions effectively
(1 Hour)
- Understand why observation is important
- Separate perception from observation
- Identify strategies used when observing someone or something
(1 Hour)
- Recognize the importance of scheduling activities
- Develop a plan or schedule
- Identify ways to maintain focus
- Identify organizational skills that maintain focus on a plan of action
(1 Hour)
- Identify the steps in a problem solving process
- Apply a problem solving process to a workplace problem
(3 Hours)
- Identify different types of measurement
- Measure length
- Measure area
- Measure capacity
- Identify types of lines
- Perform calculations with lines
- Identify triangles and their parts
- Perform calculations with triangles
- Identify parts of a circle
- Perform calculations with circles
- Identify polygons
(1 Hour)
- Simplify written directions into small, more manageable pieces
- Use more effective measures to read key documentation specific to job performance
- Define the purpose when reading directions to follow them more effectively
(1 Hour)
- Identify some key reading strategies for building reading comprehension
- Identify the main idea in a text
- Identify context clues, such as prefixes and suffixes, that will aid in comprehension
(3 Hours)
- Comprehend a two-dimensional drawing of a three-dimensional object
- Describe the drawing conventions for showing centerlines on a blueprint
- Describe the drawing conventions for showing dimensions on a blueprint
- Comprehend standard ways of adding detail descriptions to a manufacturing blueprint
- Identify different types of symbols used on blueprints
(1 Hour)
- Perform the steps involved in effective writing procedures
- Identify why understanding the purpose for writing affects the way something is written
- Correctly fill out a job related form