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The craft of masonry can vary from creating a simple walkway for the general home, or it can advance to installing large ornaments for the exterior of a building. Our masonry program focuses not only on creating skilled masons who know how to build fences, walls and walkways, but it and produces strong workers who care about the precision and appearance of a foundation. Students enrolled in the program receive tablets and textbooks to aid them while finishing their online courses before becoming an apprentice through on-the-job training. The program aims to build student awareness on block structures including concrete and brick, and it motivates masons to maintain organizational and design skills. 

Throughout the program, students study basic masonry and safety information along with specific brick laying techniques and routine maintenance policies. Each course includes several lessons with slideshows, videos, and practice questions to advance their knowledge before taking a quiz that allows them to pass the course. Students with high motivation, determination, and the ability to succeed move on from the online courses to a paid, on-the-job training program to get them integrated in the workforce of their choice. 

Excellent for Entry Level - Journeyman Level

Program Objectives:

At the successful completion of the program curriculum, students will be able to:

·       Lay and align bricks, blocks, or tiles and repair structures.

·       Apply and smooth mortar or other mixtures over work surfaces.

·       Examine brickwork and determine the need for repair.

·       Measure distances from reference points.

·       Mix specified amounts of clay, sand, dirt, and mortar powder with water.

·       Fasten brick and other building materials with tools such as wire clamps, anchor holes, or cement.

·       Clean working surfaces to remove scale, soot, dust, or chips or brick and mortar.

Course List:

·       Brick Laying

·       Cutting Brick and Stone

·       Masonry Vocabulary

·       PPE

·       Concrete, Mortar, Lumbar

·       Joints

·       Lines and Joints

·       Masonry Problems

·       Maintenance and Cleaning

·       Modular and Spacing Rules

·       Mortar, Concrete, Mixing

·       Pointing

Math

·Area for the Skilled Trade Professional- Squares, Rectangles, and Triangles

·Quiz: Area of Squares, Rectangles, and Triangles

·Perimeter for the Skilled Trade Professional- Squares, Rectangles, and Triangles

·Quiz: Perimeter

Circles: Area, Radius, Diameter, Pie

Quiz: Circles- Area, Radius, Diameter, Pie

Volume for the Skilled Trade Professional- Rectangular Solids

Quiz: Volume of Rectangular Solids

Volume for the Skilled Trade Professional- Cubes

Quiz: Volume of Cubes

Volume for the Skilled Trade Professional- Cylinders

Quiz: Volume of Cylinders

The Inch in Fractions

Fraction Practice

Tape Measure and Fractions Quiz

Whole Numbers and Rounding to the Thousands Place

Whole Numbers Quiz

Decimals- Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying and Dividing

Decimal Quiz

Risk Assessment in the Workplace

Overview: In this lesson, you will learn how to prepare for risks and avoid hazards in the workplace to create a safe space for all employees.

Objectives: Students will demonstrate understanding of the following concepts through discussion, assignments and quizzes.

Identify risks and hazards in the workplace

Be able to take control measures

Know how to write up an accident report

Identify risk management techniques

Create a disaster recovery plan

Work Essential Skills – Effective Communication

Overview: This lesson explores the benefits of effective communication.

Objectives: Students will demonstrate understanding of the following concepts through discussion, assignments and quizzes.

Explore the importance of effective communication at work with coworkers, customers and supervisors

Identify different types of communication.

Identify how eye contact plays a role in communication.

Identify how appearance and body language play a role in communication.

Identify examples of good listening skills.

Identify examples of poor listening skills.

Explore the importance of being an attentive listener at work for customers, coworkers and supervisors.

Identify good listening skill habits.

Define feedback as it relates to good listening.

Identify how feedback can be used to check for understanding.

Identify note taking as a strategy to check for understanding.

Explore potential distractions that can interfere with communication and listening.

Identify internal and external distractions.

Identify nonverbal communication examples such as eye contact, body language, a smile, nod, etc

Identify communication skills supervisors should possess and how to begin using them as a helper

Understand how maintaining a positive attitude affects communication

Communication Strategies in the Workplace

Overview: In this lesson, you will learn of the effectiveness of communication in the workplace. Through different strategies, it will be clear how a well-communicating workplace is more successful. 

Objectives: Students will demonstrate understanding of the following concepts through discussion, assignments and quizzes.

-        Understand the meaning of communication

-        Identify different ways that communication occurs

-        Identify barriers to communication and how to overcome them

-        Develop nonverbal communication skills

-        Adopt appreciative inquiry as a communication tool

Customer Communication Essentials

Overview: Expert communication skills and exceptional customer support go hand-in-hand. Whether you’re answering questions, resolving problems, or developing rapport with customers—a positive experience starts with friendly, empathetic, and effective communication. 

Objectives: Students will demonstrate understanding of the following concepts through discussion, assignments and quizzes.

-        Learn how to improve the customer experience

-        Become a better listener and communicator

-        Understand how to begin and end conversations with customers

-        Identify a customer’s needs

-        Practice how to have a successful real-world customer conversation

·Safety for Skilled Trade Professionals:

o  Manual Lifting

o  Manual Lifting Quiz

o  Stairway Safety

o  Fall Prevention

o  Back Injury Prevention

o  Material Handling

o  Scaffolding Safety

o  Ladders

o  Step Ladders

o  General Safety Quiz

o  Horseplay

o  Repetitive Motion

o  Hand Tools

o  Motor Vehicle Safety

o  Final Quiz

o  Fire Extinguishers and Prevention

o  Flammable Liquids

o  Oxy Acetylene

o  Chemical Safety

o  PPE Quiz

o  Respiratory Protection

o  Eye Protection

o  Ear Protection

o  Head Protection

o  PPE Introduction and First Aid Basics

o  Test and Survey

o  Housekeeping

o  Working in Confined Spaces

o  Working in the Cold

o  Working in the Heat