Basic Carpentry Apprenticeship - Level 1 - Saskatchewan Indian Institute of TechnologiesCarpentry Education in CanadaCarpentry and Woodworking Programs -- Community College Programs
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Basic Carpentry Apprenticeship - Level 1 - Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies' Basic Carpentry Apprenticeship - Level 1 program combines 'classroom activities and considerable hands-on shop work' to equip learners with all requirements of the Carpentry, Level One program as outlined by the Saskatchewan Apprenticeship and Trade Certification Commission' (SATCC). The Institute will provide 'additional academic and trade-specific upgrading to supplement the program.' Students 'are selected, counseled, encouraged and provided with support to become apprentice carpenters,' and the Institute's 'staff will assist qualified participants to become indentured to the SIIT Joint Training Committee or to a suitable employer.' In essence, the Program's primary aim is to ready students to enter a carpentry apprenticeship program. The latter is a method of learning a trade through a combination of periods of in-class, technical/theoretical education and periods of paid, on-the-job training. During the latter portions of an apprenticeship, the student (apprentice) will work, in an indentured capacity, under the direction of a certified, journeyperson member of the trade one is learning. A journeyperson is an individual who has earned the standards of practice of his/her trade, typically via the completion of an apprenticeship. Normally, to complete an apprenticeship will take about 4 years. The advantage of completing an apprenticeship is not only that one acquires in-depth knowledge and skills in a trade but also that, within the latter, one's career opportunities and salary potential are normally increased. Furthermore, once an individual has obtained journeyperson status, he/she may be eligible to have his/her certification as such endorsed by the Interprovincial Standards Red Seal Program (Red Seal). The latter enables the journeyperson to practice his/her trade throughout Canada, provided the trade is designated in that locale, without undergoing further examinations. Furthermore, carpenters who obtain journeyperson status may, through several years of experience beyond the apprenticeship, become supervisors, trainers, and/or educators of their trade.
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