Emmaus High School Vocational Education Program

There were 11 students enrolled in the program. The breakdown is as follows:
4 Freshmen (9th graders)
5 Sophomores (10th graders)
2 Junior (11th graders)

The instructor was hire to implement the program. The class was held in the afternoon from Monday to Friday. Major part of the class was hand-on activities. Students had two projects during these two quarters to do. One was fencing the Auto Shop. Students were able to work with their instructor to fence the Auto Shop. This was to secure tools from trespassers. The second project was to build parking garage for school vehicles. The students with the help of their instructor were able to build parking garage. The school now has a parking garage to park its vehicles to protect them from exposure to the rain and the sun (bad weather).

The boys are moving materials for the construction of garage.

This is the garage that is half way finish. The boys are working.

This is the finished garage. Cars are parked inside.

This is an Automotive Shop. You can see the screen fence that the boys did with their instructor. There is a rump that they can put car on it.

Major activities that students did from January to the first week of May 2007.

Welding:
Students also learned some basics for welding metals. They learned what welding is and how it worked. They learned different components of welding such as different sizes of welding rods and types of metal and metal sizes. They also learned how to weld screen fence. (see picture). They also learned the safety devise and adjustment of welding machine.

Carpentry:
In doing this project the students were able to learn basic carpentry skills. They learned how to handle different carpentry tools properly and with emphasis of job-safety rules. It is important that students are conscious of safety rules while working with different tools, especially the electric tools and sharp objects. They also learned to take care of tools, equipment and place of work. They also learned how to mix cement and basic construction.

Nothing was done on plumbing. There was no time for this activity. This is also a very important part of the project and hopefully next year there will be a time for it.

Mechanics:
Because students spent more time for these two projects they did not have much time to go into detail of learning auto-mechanics. Students only learned some basics of mechanics such as names of auto parts and basic maintenance of automobile.

Curriculum development.
Instead of developing new curriculum materials for the program, the program adopted the curriculum materials from Vocational Education at Palau Community College. These materials are used by the first year carpentry students at Palau Community College. The curriculum includes: Introduction to carpentry, safety rules, wood products, basic mathematics for carpentry, Measurement, names and use of different hand tools and power tools. One advantage of adopting these materials from the College is that in the future if students want to pursue their vocational education at Palau Community College they are ready for advance courses instead of starting from the basics.