The expectations in this folder are reproduced from the Ontario Ministry of Education’s expectations document for Technology and the Skilled Trades, Grade 10, Open (TAS2O), 2024, part of the Ministry’s Technological Education curriculum. © King’s Printer for Ontario, 2024. Reproduced for educational use.
The official sources
Technology and the Skilled Trades, Grade 10, Open (TAS2O) — Ontario Curriculum and Resources
The wording below was taken from the Ministry’s own expectations document for the course, Technology and the Skilled Trades, Grade 10, Open (TAS2O), 2024 (four pages), linked from the course page’s downloads: the expectations as a PDF.
The course has two strands. Strand A is the design process — planning, making, testing and refining, and doing all of it safely — and the document opens it with a single sentence: “Students engage in an engineering design process throughout this strand.” Strand B is the world the work lives in: who needs it, what it changes, and the careers and pathways it can lead to.
A course that reaches across technology areas
TAS2O is a broad-based course. Two of its expectations say so in as many words: A1.1 asks students to work with fundamental technological concepts “in a variety of broad-based technology areas”, and B3.1 asks them to explore careers “including a variety of broad-based technology areas, and the skilled trades”. A teacher can lean the examples towards an area they know well, but the projects should still reach into more than one area, and the careers the class looks at further still.
The codes
Each page keeps the expectation’s official code — A1.3, B2.1, and
so on, exactly as the Ministry prints them — and every lesson, project, and
task in this course links back to the codes it addresses. The codes are
also tags, so every page tagged #A3 can be gathered in one place.
Why the codes matter more than they look
A code is a shared address. When a student asks “why are we doing this?”, the answer is a link. When a department writes a course outline, or a teacher takes over a class partway through, the codes are what make one person’s planning legible to another.