ESSENTIAL SKILLS
CURRICULUM GUIDEBOOKsupport individual learning needs in each of the six Essential Skills and are the generic
Essential Skills Maps for all thirteen trades included in the Trade Essentials project.
The following describes the structure and components of the curriculum frameworks
developed for apprentices at the Trade Essentials Centre.
Learning Category
A Learning Category (as defined by Trade Essentials) is a general curriculum outcome
and is one of the six Essential Skills identified for development in the Trade Essentials
project: Reading Text, Document Use, Numeracy, Oral Communication, Computer Use
and Writing. It appears in the top band across each of the six frameworks as shown in
the example below.
Note: Reading Text will be referred to as Technical Reading in all frameworks
(^) TECHNICAL
READING
FRAMEWORK
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Learning Category
Learning Outcome
A Learning Outcome is a specific curriculum outcome and describes what a learner
should know or be able to do as the result of a course of study. Trade Essentials has
identified one Learning Outcome for each Learning Category. The learning outcome
statement appears below the Learning Category. For example, the learning outcome in
the Trade Essentials Technical Reading Framework is:
Learners will locate, recall, understand and interpret information in written text
Learning Objective
Learning objectives are the standards or benchmarks that identify what learners will
know or will be able to do as the result of the completion of a number of related
competencies in a particular “band”. In the example below, the objective for the band is:
TR1 – Use Terminology of the Trade (Burgundy Box).
Learning Objective
TR1 Use
Terminology of
the Trade