Essential Skills Manual - Automotive Service Technician

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

CURRICULUM GUIDEBOOK

Competency

While an objective describes ‘what’ we expect learners to achieve, competencies identify
‘how’ learners can achieve that objective. Competencies are specific activities used to
measure whether or not learners have mastered the objective. In Table 1 below, the
learner must master competencies 2.1 and 2.2 (taupe boxes) to demonstrate mastery of
the objective. Where objectives demonstrate the end result, competencies are a means
to that end.
Competencies provide a framework for selecting instructional materials and
techniques and provide a basis for determining when instruction has been
successful.

Table 1
Competency
TR2 Use Strategies to
Improve
Understanding and
Recall

2.1 Identify strategies to

improve understanding

and recall of written

information

2.2 Implement strategies

to improve understanding

and recall of written

information

The flow chart

provides a visual

representation of

the framework

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