1501 – Awareness to Manufacturing Technology
Credit: For Elementary Students and Middle School Students
Meets Daily (5 times per week)
Text: Technology Engineering and Design, 2008, McGraw Hill-Glencoe; General Industrial Education Technology, 1986
Resources: Highly qualified educator, Internet, lab tools, equipment
Prerequisite: None
This class helps students gain an understanding of engineering and design. It explores the nature of technology, history, evolution, and progress.

1502 – Exploration in Manufacturing
Credit: For Middle School Students
Meets Daily (5 times per week)
This class explores our environment, industry, and technologies for the middle school students. A broad spectrum of technological activities and concepts are explored while using tools. Hand tools and materials are our texts. We teach concepts of communicating with mathematics by measuring 3B and number sense. Understanding science by material selections, and simple machines applications. English by communicating with directions, and understanding the vocabulary by applying math/science terms to work. Power tools are demonstrated and used controlled. A computer controlled engraver is demonstrated while students make a personalized signature card or typoscope. Students are encouraged to think for themselves. Independence for problem solving is stressed and students are encouraged to use multiple thought steps to complete skills and practicums. A student designed, instructor approved project is selected and manufactured.

1503 – Orientation to Manufacturing Technology
Credit: .5 per semester
Meets Daily (5 times per week)
Text: Technology Engineering and Design, 2008, McGraw Hill-Glencoe; General Industrial Education Technology, 1986
Resources: Highly qualified educator, internet, lab tools, equipment
This class helps students understand and apply technology presented in an engineering context. It describes the engineering design process and how it is used to solve technological challenges. In this program, students explore the nature of technology, technology systems, and the history, evolution, and characteristics of technology as well as its impact on our society, culture, economy, politics, and environment.

1511 – Career Exploration
Credit: .5 per semester
Meets Daily (5 times per week)
Text: None
Prerequisite: High school student
This class will allow students to explore careers. Students will assess their interests and abilities to match specific career possibilities. This class will also have students explore specific career requirements, pay and education. Instruction of the class will also allow for students to visit employers in various careers and allow for employers to visit the classroom to provide presentations.

1521 – Prevocational Skills (Assembling/Packaging I)
Credit: .5 per semester
Meets Daily (5 times per week)
Text: None
Prerequisite: None
This course prepares students to enter workstations. Students will experience work readiness in risk management, independence, work behaviors, and production rates. This class is progressive; the student will enter the work program once requirements of pre-voc have been met.

1531 – Employability Skills
Credit: .5 per semester
Meets Daily (5 times per week)
Text: Succeeding In The World Of Work, Preparing For The World Of Work, and Janus: Job Planner
Prerequisite: None
This class will complete an array of inventories covering interests, experience, work conditions, values, attitudes, getting to know yourself, and the SDS. The students will also write an Individual Career Plan.

This class will explore different careers via the text books mentioned above, the Internet, and a field trip to the local Illinois Education and Training Center (IETC).

1541 – Advanced Employability Skills
Credit: .5 per semester
Meets Daily (5 times per week)
Text: Janus Employability Skills Program, Succeeding in the World of Work, Preparing for the World of Work
Prerequisite: High School Student
This class covers exploring job leads through various sources, applying for a job, interviewing, and resume writing.

1551 – Employability Training
Credit: .5 per semester
Meets Daily (5 times per week)
Text: None
Prerequisite: None
This class covers preparing for a new job, work place ethics, team work and leadership skills.

1552 – Work Study (Supervised Occupational Experience)
Credit: .5 per semester
Meets Daily (5 times per week)
Text: None
Prerequisite: Employment through the STEP Work Program
Students may enroll in this course for more than one credit. Students enrolled in this course are placed in various job assignments. The outcome for students is to gain valuable work experience before entering the labor market seeking full time employment upon graduation. Students enrolled are supervised by an ISVI instructor and work to meet goals established by their supervising teacher.

1553 – Manufacturing Technology
Credit: .5 per semester
Meets Daily (5 times per week)
Text: General Industrial Education Technology, McGraw-Hill, 1986
Resources: HQ Educator, Internet, Lab tools and equipment.
Prerequisite: Orientation to Manufacturing Technology with a "C" or better or teacher recommendation
This course explores material/environmental science, and provides students with knowledge and skills of power machining and assembling various materials (organic, inorganic, and composites).
Student’s level of risk management will be evaluated as to independent, supervised, or controlled. Students will be exposed to independent thought, critical thinking, and problem solving three dimensionally. Students will select a product and submit a math/science term paper (plan of procedure), which is instructor, approved. The informal design format will be used, but formal design stressed, and the industrial language of the blueprint will be taught and used in design/construction phases. Experiences in work ethics, industrial communications, and product quality/cost analysis are stressed.

1554 – Advanced Manufacturing Technology
Credit: .5 per semester
Meets Daily (5 times per week)
Text: General Industrial Education Technology, McGraw-Hill, 1986
Resources: HQ Educator, Internet, Lab tools and equipment.
Prerequisite: Manufacturing Technology with a “C” or better or by teacher recommendation
This course studies the transformation of specific resources (forests, minerals, plastics, and composites) into a marketable product. Independence, vocabulary, science, math, and manufacturing processes are explored in detail. A math/science term paper (plan of procedure) with formal design format, Internet research, and various texts are used.
Examples of past products: glass top coffee table, guitar, entertainment center, dulcimer, etc.

1555 – Braille Dots Print Shop (Cooperative Vocational Education)
Credit: .5 per semester
Meets Daily (5 times per week)
Software: Corel WordPerfect for Windows, Version 8.0; Assistive Software: ZoomText Extra, Window-Eyes and/or JAWS; Hardware: PC, networked laser printer, networked Braille embossers
Prerequisite: teacher recommendation
This unique course functions as an office simulation that operates as a small business, specializing in the production of enlarged print and Braille for the reader who is has a visual disability. This enterprise employs student-employees with a supervising teacher.

Through various activities, students learn to operate numerous peripheral pieces of equipment, some of which are specialized assistive hardware for the user who is visually impaired. Job orders are provided by teachers, administrators, and supervisors on the ISVI campus while off-campus jobs come from businesses and organizations in the community and surrounding area. Besides academic and vocational skill refinement while working in the Print Shop, focus is also given to securing and maintaining employment, job interviewing, work ethics, punctuality, time and workload management and prioritizing, positive interpersonal relationships, decision making, being a contributing participant through a "team" approach, dealing with conflicts in the work place, personal grooming, and suitable apparel for the workplace. Once each week, students are required to come to work properly dressed and groomed. Students arrive to work each day anxious and eager to get started as they enjoy putting their skills to work.