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STIC - Automotive Services: C. Acts and Regulations

Lesson PlanWarm-Up

Equipment

  • Overhead projector

Materials

  • Overhead 6 "True or False" Download this section below

Instructions

a) Warm-up

Use Overhead 6 to initiate discussion and to get an idea of participants' level of knowledge.

If no one is able to elaborate on the statements or questions, tell them that they will find the information in the Acts they will be looking at.

True or False (Same questions on Overhead, Answer Key follows in Facilitator's Notes)

  1. An apprentice acquires a trade through a combination of on-the-job experience and in-school training.
  2. Another name for skilled worker is journeyperson.
  3. Automotive Service Technician is a regulated skilled trade in Ontario.
  4. You don't have to be certified to work as an Automotive Service Technician in Alberta.
  5. Until recently, Automotive Service Technicians were known as Motor Vehicle Mechanics in Ontario.
  6. Because you got 66% on your Certificate of Qualification exam, you won't have to write another exam if you move to Alberta to work.
  7. In Canada, more than 50 regulated skilled occupations have Interprovincial Standards examinations.
  8. AST is a Red Seal trade.
  9. An AST can install the ignition in a truck-trailer.
Discussion
  1. True
    • Where do apprentices get the on-the-job experience? In-school training?
    • How long is the apprenticeship for an Automotive Service Technician in Ontario?
  2. True
  3. True
  4. False
    • AST is a regulated trade in all the provinces of Canada.
  5. True
    • Why was the title changed in Ontario?
      • To differentiate between automotive and truck and coach mechanics
      • To bring Ontario terminology into line with the Red Seal title
  6. False
    • A mark of at least 70% in the C of Q exam entitles a person to an Interprovincial Red Seal which allows him/her to work across Canada without further examination.
  7. False
    • Approximately 20 are Red Seal trades.
  8. True
  9. False
    • An AST can work only on motor vehicles (automobile/motor home/bus or truck weighing less than 9,000 kilograms gross/a trailer)

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