All work site learning methodologies including Community Classroom will be utilized when appropriate.

1. Students will understand how personal skill development affects their employability. They will exhibit positive attitudes, self-confidence, honesty, perseverance, self-discipline, and personal hygiene. They will manage time and balance priorities as well as demonstrate a capacity for lifelong learning.
    
2. Students will understand key concepts in group dynamics, conflict resolution, and negotiation. They will work cooperatively, share responsibilities, accept supervision, and assume leadership roles. They will demonstrate cooperative working relationships across gender and cultural groups.
     
3. Students will exhibit critical thinking skills, logical reasoning, and problem solving. They will apply numerical estimation, measurement, and calculation, as appropriate. They will recognize problem situations: identify, locate, and organize needed information or data; and propose, evaluate, and select from alternative solutions.
     
4. Students will understand principles of effective communication. They will communicate both orally and in writing. They will listen attentively and follow instructions, requesting clarification or additional information as needed.
    
5. Students will understand occupational safety issues including the avoidance of physical hazards in the work environment. They will operate equipment safely so as not to endanger themselves or others. They will demonstrate proper handling of hazardous materials.
    
6. Students will understand career paths and strategies for obtaining employment within their chosen fields. They will assume responsibility for professional growth. They will understand and promote the role of their field within a productive society, including the purposes of professional organizations.
    
7. Students will understand and adapt to changing technology by identifying, learning, and applying new skills to improve job performance. They will effectively employ technologies relevant to their fields.
    
8. Students will understand complex inter-relationships of systems.
    
• Students will understand systems – know how social, organizational, and technological systems work and operate effectively with them.
   
• Students will monitor and correct performance – distinguish trends, predict impacts on system operations, diagnose systems’ performance and correct malfunctions.
   
• Students will improve of design systems – suggest modifications to existing systems and develop new or alternative systems to improve performance.
   
9. Students will understand all aspects of the industry including: planning, management, and finance; technical and production skills; underlying principles of technology; labor, community, health, and environmental issues.