2021 - 2022

Florida Department of Education
Curriculum Framework 

Program Title:	Production Technology
Program Type:	Non Career Preparatory 
Career Cluster:	Engineering & Technology Education

Secondary – Non Career Preparatory	
Program Number	8604000	
CIP Number	0821011400	
Grade Level	9-12	
Standard Length	3 credits 	
Teacher Certification	Refer to the Program Structure section	
CTSO	FL-TSA, SkillsUSA	
CTE Program Resources 	http://www.fldoe.org/academics/career-adult-edu/career-tech-edu/program-resources.stml	

Purpose 

The purpose of this program is to provide students with a foundation of knowledge and technically oriented experiences in the study of production technology and its effect upon our lives and the choosing of an occupation.  The content and activities will also include the study of entrepreneurship, safety, and leadership skills.  This program focuses on transferable skills and stresses understanding and demonstration of the technological tolls, machines, instruments, materials, processes and systems in business and industry.  

Additional Information relevant to this Career and Technical Education (CTE) program is provided at the end of this document.

Program Structure

This program is a planned sequence of instruction consisting of three credits.

To teach the course(s) listed below, instructors must hold at least one of the teacher certifications indicated for that course. 

The following table illustrates the secondary program structure:

Course Number	Course Title	Teacher Certification	Length	Level	Graduation Requirement	
8600540	Production Technology I	AUTO PROD 7G
ENG 7G 
ENG TEC 7G
TEC ED 1 @2
ENG&TEC ED1@2	1 credit	2	PA	
8600640	Production Technology II		1 credit	2	PA	
8601740	Production Technology III		1 credit	3	PA	

(Graduation Requirement Abbreviations- EQ= Equally Rigorous Science, PA= Practical Arts, EC= Economics)

In addition to the above courses, the Advanced Technology Applications (8601900) course is appropriate to be used for content area continuation in this program after all three credits of this program have been completed.  The purpose of the Advanced Technology Applications course is to provide students with a capstone opportunity to develop a school based project from "vision" to "reality," working in teams to design, engineer, manufacture, construct, test, redesign, test again; and then produce a finished "project".  This would involve using ALL the knowledge previously learned, not only in Engineering & Technology Education but also across the curriculum.  See the Advanced Technology Applications framework for more information.

Common Career Technical Core – Career Ready Practices

Career Ready Practices describe the career-ready skills that educators should seek to develop in their students.  These practices are not exclusive to a Career Pathway, program of study, discipline or level of education.  Career Ready Practices should be taught and reinforced in all career exploration and preparation programs with increasingly higher levels of complexity and expectation as a student advances through a program of study. 

1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. 

2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. 

3. Attend to personal health and financial well-being. 

4. Communicate clearly, effectively and with reason. 

5. Consider the environmental, social and economic impacts of decisions. 

6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation. 

7. Employ valid and reliable research strategies. 

8. Utilize critical thinking to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 

9. Model integrity, ethical leadership and effective management. 

10. Plan education and career path aligned to personal goals. 

11. Use technology to enhance productivity. 

12. Work productively in teams while using cultural/global competence. 

Standards

After successfully completing this program, the student will be able to perform the following:

01.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and scope of technology. 
02.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the core concepts of technology. 
03.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the relationships among technologies and the connection between technology and other fields of study. 
04.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the cultural, social, economic, and political effects of technology. 
05.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the effects of technology on the environment. 
06.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the role of society in the development and use of technology. 
07.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the influence of technology on history. 
08.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the attributes of design. 
09.0	Demonstrate an understanding of engineering design. 
10.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the role of troubleshooting, research and development, invention and innovation, and experimentation in problem solving. 
11.0	Demonstrate the abilities to apply the design process. 
12.0	Demonstrate the abilities to use and maintain technological products and systems. 
13.0	Demonstrate the abilities to assess the impact of products and systems. 
14.0	Demonstrate an understanding of and be able to select and use manufacturing technologies. 
15.0	Demonstrate safe and appropriate use of tools and machines in production technology. 
16.0	Demonstrate the ability to properly identify, organize, plan, and allocate resources. 
17.0	Demonstrate an understanding of entrepreneurship. 
18.0	Produce a custom product from industrial materials and composites using preprocessing, processing, and post-processing production technology skills. 
19.0	Plan and participate in a mass production system for manufacturing a product. 
20.0	Utilize modern production technology in the processes of separating, forming, combining, fabrication, and finishing of materials. 
21.0	Perform advanced study and technical skills related to production technology.
22.0	Demonstrate an understanding of career opportunities and requirements in the field of production technology.

2021 - 2022
Florida Department of Education
Student Performance Standards

Course Title: 	Production Technology I 
Course Number: 	8600540
Course Credit:	1

Course Description:
This course provides students with an introduction to the knowledge, human relations, and technological skills found today in production technology.

CTE Standards and Benchmarks	
01.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and scope of technology.--The student will be able to:	
01.01	Discuss the nature and development of technological knowledge and processes.  	
01.02	Explain the rapid increase in the rate of technological development and diffusion.	
01.03	Recognize specific goal-directed research related to inventions and innovations.  	
02.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the core concepts of technology.--The student will be able to:	
02.01	Identify systems thinking logic and creativity with appropriate compromises in complex real-life problems.  	
02.02	Define technological systems, which are the building blocks of technology and are embedded within larger technological, social, and environmental systems. 	
02.03	Formulate why the stability of a technological system is influenced by all of the components in the system, especially those in the feedback loop.	
02.04	Identify resources involving trade-offs between competing values, such as availability, cost, desirability, and waste.  	
02.05	Identify the criteria and constraints of a product or system and determine how they affect the final design and development.  	
02.06	List strategies for optimizing a technological process or methodology of designing or making a product, dependent on criteria and constraints.	
02.07	Identify new technologies that create new processes.	
02.08	Research quality control as a planned process to ensure that a product, service, or system meets established criteria.	
02.09	Define a management system as the process of planning, organizing, and controlling work.  	
02.10	Outline complex systems have many layers of controls and feedback loops to provide information.	
03.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the relationships among technologies and the connection between technology and other fields of study.--The student will be able to:	
03.01	Identify technology transfer occurring when a new user applies an existing innovation developed for one purpose in a different function.  	
03.02	Identify technological innovation resulting when ideas, knowledge, or skills are shared within a technology, among technologies, or across other fields.  	
03.03	Outline the process of patenting to protect a technological idea.  	
03.04	Identify technological progresses that promote the advancement of science and mathematics.  	
04.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the cultural, social, economic, and political effects of technology.--The student will be able to:	
04.01	Identify changes caused by the use of technology ranging from gradual to rapid and from subtle to obvious.  	
04.02	Classify the use of technology involving weighing the trade-offs between the positive and the negative effects.  	
04.03	Identify ethical considerations important in the development, selection, and use of technologies.  	
04.04	List the cultural, social, economic, and political changes caused by the transfer of a technology from one society to another.  	
04.05	Discuss current technological developments that are/were driven by profit motives and the market.	
05.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the effects of technology on the environment.--The student will be able to:	
05.01	Select technologies to conserve water, soil, and energy through such techniques as reusing, reducing and recycling.	
05.02	List trade-offs of developing technologies to reduce the use of resources. 	
05.03	Identify technology to monitor the environment and provide information as a basis for decision-making.	
05.04	Compare and contrast the alignment of technological processes with natural processes to maximize performance and reduce negative impacts on the environment.	
05.05	Identify technologies devised to reduce the negative consequences of other technologies.  	
05.06	Discuss the implementation of technologies involving the weighing of trade-offs between predicted positive and negative effects on the environment.  	
14.0	Demonstrate an understanding of and be able to select and use manufacturing technologies.--The student will be able to:	
14.01	Service products to keep them in good operating condition.  	
14.02	Classify materials based on their qualities as natural, synthetic, or mixed.  	
14.03	Classify goods as durable goods designed to operate for a long period of time, or non-durable goods designed to operate for a short period of time.  	
14.04	Identify and classify manufacturing systems into types, such as customized production, batch production, and continuous production.  	
14.05	Discuss the interchangeability of parts to increase the effectiveness of manufacturing processes.  	
14.06	Identify chemical technologies providing a means for humans to alter or modify materials and to produce chemical products.  	
14.07	Employ marketing techniques involving establishing a product’s identity, conducting research on its potential, advertising it, distributing it, and selling it.  	
15.0	Demonstrate safe and appropriate use of tools and machines in production technology.--The student will be able to:	
15.01	Select appropriate tools, procedures, and/or equipment.	
15.02	Demonstrate the safe usage of appropriate tools, procedures, and operation of equipment.	
15.03	Follow laboratory safety rules and procedures.	
15.04	Demonstrate good housekeeping at workstation within total laboratory.	
15.05	Identify color-coding safety standards.	
15.06	Explain fire prevention and safety precautions and practices for extinguishing fires.	
15.07	Identify harmful effects/potential dangers of familiar hazardous substances/devices to people and the environment.	
16.0	Demonstrate the ability to properly identify, organize, plan, and allocate resources.--The student will be able to:	
16.01	Demonstrate the ability to select goal-relevant activities, rank them, allocate time, and prepare and follow schedules.	
16.02	Use or prepare budgets, make forecasts, keep records, and make adjustments to meet objectives.  	
16.03	Demonstrate the ability to acquire, store, allocate, and use materials or space efficiently.	
16.04	Display an understanding of the efficient use of human resources.	
17.0	Demonstrate an understanding of entrepreneurship.--The student will be able to:	
17.01	Define entrepreneurship.	
17.02	Describe the importance of entrepreneurship to the American economy.  	
17.03	List the advantages and disadvantages of business ownership.	
17.04	Identify the risks involved in ownership of a business.	
17.05	Identify the necessary personal characteristics of a successful entrepreneur.	
17.06	Identify the business skills needed to operate a small business efficiently and effectively.	

2021 - 2022
Florida Department of Education
Student Performance Standards

Course Title: 	Production Technology II 
Course Number: 	8600640
Course Credit:	1

Course Description:
This program provides students with an intermediate understanding of the knowledge, human relations, and technological skills found today in production technology.

CTE Standards and Benchmarks	
06.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the role of society in the development and use of technology.--The student will be able to:	
06.01	Investigate how different cultures develop their own technologies to satisfy their individual and shared needs, wants, and values.	
06.02	Collect societal opinions and demands, as well as corporate cultures to use as a basis for deciding whether or not to develop a technology.	
06.03	Identify a number of different factors, such as advertising, the strength of the economy, the goals of a company, and the latest fads as contributors to shaping the design of and demand for various technologies.	
07.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the influence of technology on history.--The student will be able to:	
07.01	Develop a logical argument as to why technological development has been evolutionary, the result of a series of refinements to a basic invention.	
07.02	Research how the evolution of civilization has been directly affected by, and has in turn affected, the development and use of tools and materials.	
07.03	Define the history of technology as a powerful force in reshaping the social, cultural, political, and economic landscape.  	
07.04	Discuss that early in the history of technology, the development of many tools and machines was based not on scientific knowledge but on technological know-how.  	
07.05	Define the Iron Age as the use of iron and steel as the primary materials for tools.  	
07.06	Define the Middle Ages and its development of many technological devices that produced long-lasting effects on technology and society.  	
07.07	Define the Renaissance, a time of rebirth of the arts and humanities, as an important development in the history of technology.  	
07.08	Define the Industrial Revolution and the development of continuous manufacturing, sophisticated transportation and communication systems, advanced construction practices, and improved education and leisure time.  	
07.09	Define the Information Age and its placement of emphasis on the processing and exchange of information.  	
08.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the attributes of design.--The student will be able to:	
08.01	Apply the design process; including defining a problem, brainstorming, researching and generating ideas, identifying criteria and specifying constraints, exploring possibilities, selecting an approach, developing a design proposal, making a model or prototype, testing and evaluating the design using specifications, refining the design, creating or making it, and communicating processes and results.  	
08.02	Restate design problems that are seldom presented in a clearly defined form.  	
08.03	Check and critique a design continually, and improve and revise the idea of the design as needed.  	
08.04	List competing requirements of a design, such as criteria, constraints, and efficiency.  	
09.0	Demonstrate an understanding of engineering design.--The student will be able to:	
09.01	Identify design principles used to evaluate existing designs, to collect data, and to guide the design process.  	
09.02	Describe the influence of personal characteristics, such as creativity, resourcefulness, and the ability to visualize and think abstractly on the Engineering Design process.  	
09.03	Construct a prototype or a working model used to test a design concept by making actual observations and necessary adjustments.  	
09.04	Evaluate factors taken into account in the process of engineering.  	
18.0	Produce a custom product from industrial materials and composites using preprocessing, processing, and post-processing production technology skills.--The student will be able to:	
18.01	Apply the technology processes of separating and forming materials.	
18.02	Apply the technology processes of conditioning materials.	
18.03	Apply the technology processes of combining in the fabrication and finishing of materials.	
18.04	Produce a custom product.	
19.0	Plan and participate in a mass production system for manufacturing a product.--The student will be able to:	
19.01	Design and develop jigs, fixtures, or a model system for product mass production.	
19.02	Develop an organized plan of tools, materials, processes, and systems to efficiently mass-produce a product.  	
19.03	Apply pre-processing, processing, and post-processing techniques in the mass production of a product.	
19.04	Participate in the organized mass production of a product.	
20.0	Utilize modern production technology in the processes of separating, forming, combining, fabrication, and finishing of materials.--The student will be able to:	
20.01	Design a program to be used in the separating forming and finishing of materials.	
20.02	Develop and perform an operational program of forming materials.	
20.03	Develop and perform an operational program of finishing materials.	
20.04	Develop and perform an operational program that will use combination of modern production processes, equipment, and materials.	

	2021 - 2022
Florida Department of Education
Student Performance Standards

Course Title: 	Production Technology III 
Course Number: 	8601740
Course Credit:	1

Course Description:
This program provides students with an advanced understanding of the knowledge, human relations, and technological skills found today in production technology.

CTE Standards and Benchmarks	
10.0	Demonstrate an understanding of the role of troubleshooting, research and development, invention and innovation, and experimentation in problem solving.--The student will be able to:	
10.01	Employ research and development as a specific problem solving approach that is used intensively in business and industry to prepare devices and systems for the marketplace.  	
10.02	Conduct research needed to solve technological problems.  	
10.03	Differentiate between technological and non-technological problems, and identify which problems can be solved using technology.  	
10.04	Utilize a multidisciplinary approach to solving technological problems.  	
11.0	Demonstrate the abilities to apply the design process.--The student will be able to:	
11.01	Interpret the design problem to solve and decide whether or not to address it.  	
11.02	List criteria and constraints and determine how these will affect the design process.  	
11.03	Refine a design by using prototypes and modeling to ensure quality, efficiency, and productivity of the final product.  	
11.04	Evaluate the design solution using conceptual, physical, and mathematical models at various intervals of the design process in order to check for proper design and to note areas where improvements are needed. 	
11.05	Develop a product or system using a design process.  	
11.06	Evaluate final solutions and communicate observations, processes, and results of the entire design process, using verbal, graphic, quantitative, virtual, and written means, in addition to three-dimensional models.  	
12.0	Demonstrate the abilities to use and maintain technological products and systems.--The student will be able to:	
12.01	Document processes and procedures and communicate them to different audiences using appropriate oral and written techniques.  	
12.02	Diagnose a system that is malfunctioning and use tools, materials, machines, and knowledge to repair it.  	
12.03	Troubleshoot, analyze, and maintain systems to ensure safe and proper function and precision.  	
12.04	Operate systems so that they function in the way they were designed.  	
12.05	Use computers and calculators to access, retrieve, organize, process, maintain, interpret, and evaluate data and information in order to communicate.  	
13.0	Demonstrate the abilities to assess the impact of products and systems.--The student will be able to:	
13.01	Collect information and evaluate its quality.  	
13.02	Synthesize data, analyze trends, and draw conclusions regarding the effect of technology on the individual, society, and the environment.  	
13.03	Apply assessment techniques, such as trend analysis and experimentation to make decisions about the future development of technology.  	
13.04	Design forecasting techniques to evaluate the results of altering natural systems.  	
21.0	Perform advanced study and technical skills related to production technology.--The student will be able to:	
21.01	Identify and research a design problem related to production technology.  	
21.02	Produce a detailed design and plan for the production of the solution. 	
21.03	Complete the advanced design project as planned.	
21.04	Deliver a professional quality presentation of the design process and solution.  	
22.0	Demonstrate an understanding of career opportunities and requirements in the field of production technology.--The student will be able to:	
22.01	Discuss individual interests related to a career in production technology.  	
22.02	Explore career opportunities related to production technology.  	
22.03	Explore secondary education opportunities related to production technology.  	
22.04	Conduct a job search.  	
22.05	Complete a job application form correctly.  	
22.06	Demonstrate competence in job interview techniques.  	
22.07	Create a professional resume and letter of introduction.  	
22.08	Solicit awards, letters of recommendation and recognition.  	
22.09	Organize work samples in a professional, presentable format.  	

Additional Information

Laboratory Activities

Laboratory investigations that include scientific inquiry, research, measurement, problem solving, emerging technologies, tools and equipment, as well as, experimental, quality, and safety procedures are an integral part of this career and technical program/course. Laboratory investigations benefit all students by developing an understanding of the complexity and ambiguity of empirical work, as well as the skills required to manage, operate, calibrate and troubleshoot equipment/tools used to make observations. Students understand measurement error; and have the skills to aggregate, interpret, and present the resulting data. Equipment and supplies should be provided to enhance hands-on experiences for students.

Academic Alignment

Secondary Career and Technical Education courses are pending alignment to the B.E.S.T.  (Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking) Standards for English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics that were adopted by the State Board of Education in February 2020.  Academic alignment is an ongoing, collaborative effort of professional educators that provide clear expectations for progression year-to-year through course alignment. This initiative supports CTE programs by improving student performance through the integration of academic content within CTE courses.  

Florida Standards for English Language Development (ELD)
English language learners communicate for social and instructional purposes within the school setting. ELD.K12.SI.1.1 

English Language Development (ELD) Standards Special Notes:
Teachers are required to provide listening, speaking, reading and writing instruction that allows English language learners (ELL) to communicate for social and instructional purposes within the school setting.   For the given level of English language proficiency and with visual, graphic, or interactive support, students will interact with grade level words, expressions, sentences and discourse to process or produce language necessary for academic success. The ELD standard should specify a relevant content area concept or topic of study chosen by curriculum developers and teachers which maximizes an ELL’s need for communication and social skills. To access an ELL supporting document which delineates performance definitions and descriptors, please click on the following link: http://www.cpalms.org/uploads/docs/standards/eld/SI.pdf.
For additional information on the development and implementation of the ELD standards, please contact the Bureau of Student Achievement through Language Acquisition at sala@fldoe.org.

Special Notes

MyCareerShines is an interactive resource to assist students in identifying their ideal career and to enhance preparation for employment. Teachers are encouraged to integrate this resource into the program curriculum to meet the employability goals for each student. Access MyCareerShines by visiting: www.mycareershines.org.

Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO)

The Florida Technology Student Association (FL-TSA) and SkillsUSA are the intercurricular career and technical student organizations for providing leadership training and reinforcing specific career and technical skills.  Career and Technical Student Organizations provide activities for students as an integral part of the instruction offered.  

Cooperative Training – OJT

On-the-job training is appropriate but not required for this program.  Whenever offered, the rules, guidelines, and requirements specified in the OJT framework apply.

Work-Based Experience (8601800) is the appropriate course to provide Engineering & Technology Education students with the opportunity, as Student Learners, to gain real world practical, first-hand exposure in broad occupational clusters or industry sectors through a structured, compensated or uncompensated experience.  Work-Based Experience (WBE) is also designed to give the Student Learners an opportunity to apply and integrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities acquired during their School-Based Experience to actual work situations independent of school facilities.  At least one credit of Engineering & Technology Education program consisting of three credits must be completed before enrolling in WBE.  See the Work-Based Experience framework for more information. 

Accommodations

Federal and state legislation requires the provision of accommodations for students with disabilities as identified on the secondary student’s Individual Educational Plan (IEP) or 504 plan or postsecondary student’s accommodations’ plan to meet individual needs and ensure equal access. Accommodations change the way the student is instructed. Students with disabilities may need accommodations in such areas as instructional methods and materials, assignments and assessments, time demands and schedules, learning environment, assistive technology and special communication systems. Documentation of the accommodations requested and provided should be maintained in a confidential file.

In addition to accommodations, some secondary students with disabilities (students with an IEP served in Exceptional Student Education (ESE)) will need modifications to meet their needs. Modifications change the outcomes or what the student is expected to learn, e.g., modifying the curriculum of a secondary career and technical education course. Note: postsecondary curriculum and regulated secondary programs cannot be modified.

Some secondary students with disabilities (ESE) may need additional time (i.e., longer than the regular school year), to master the student performance standards associated with a regular course or a modified course.  If needed, a student may enroll in the same career and technical course more than once.  Documentation should be included in the IEP that clearly indicates that it is anticipated that the student may need an additional year to complete a Career and Technical Education (CTE) course.  The student should work on different competencies and new applications of competencies each year toward completion of the CTE course.  After achieving the competencies identified for the year, the student earns credit for the course.  It is important to ensure that credits earned by students are reported accurately.  The district’s information system must be designed to accept multiple credits for the same course number for eligible students with disabilities.

Additional Resources

For additional information regarding articulation agreements, Bright Futures Scholarships, Fine Arts/Practical Arts Credit and Equivalent Mathematics and Equally Rigorous Science Courses please refer to:

http://www.fldoe.org/academics/career-adult-edu/career-tech-edu/program-resources.stml