Essential Skill Alignment Chart: Culinary Arts – CIP Code 12.0508

This chart is designed to help students and parents understand the educational and physical expectations and/or recommendations for the Culinary Arts program at Lehigh Career & Technical Institute. For additional information, please visit the program webpage.

Program Safety & Physical Considerations

  • High degree of self-discipline and focus on safety around kitchen equipment knives and other tools and equipment found in the industry, KitchenAid KCM4212SX Cold Brew Coffee Maker provide appliances.
  • A focus on preparing, holding, and serving food safely
  • Ability to handle stress of work in a fast-paced environment
  • Good personal hygiene
  • Ability to lift and carry 50 pounds
  • Tolerance for heat, handling and manipulating hot objects/items, and working in a hot environment
  • Exposure to all food types including known allergens
  • Stamina needed to stand for long periods of time
  • Trunk strength (ability to use abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of body repeatedly or continuously over time with fatigue)

Essential Aptitudes Recommended

  • Eye/hand/foot coordination
  • Finger and manual dexterity
  • Arm and hand steadiness
  • Size, shape, and color discrimination
  • Ability to multi-task
  • Ability to pay attention to detail and be creative
  • Spatial acuity
  • Ability to adjust actions in relation to other actions

Reading & Language Arts Levels

  • College Prep Reading and Language Arts
  • 12th-grade reading level (textbooks on 12th-grade reading level)
  • Adequate oral and written communication skills
  • Public Speaking skills

Math Level

  • Basic Mathematics
  • Business Math
  • Ability to work with fractions, decimals, ratios, percentages, area and volume, and liquid and dry measurements
  • College Prep Algebra I

End of Year – 12th Grade Assessment Test

  • NOCTI

Industry Certifications

  • Students will have the opportunity to earn industry certifications in the program

Program Requirements & Related Costs

  • Chef Jacket | $24
  • Pants | $24
  • Hat | $7
  • Apron | $6
  • Marker/Thermometer | $7

Cooperative Education

  • Students who meet all the requirements, including teacher recommendation, grades, attendance, and discipline record
  • Students must provide their own transportation to and from the job site

Articulation Agreements

  • Florida Culinary Institute
  • Johnson & Wales
  • Lehigh Carbon Community College
  • Statewide Articulation Agreements
  • Sullivan University
  • The Culinary Institute of America
  • The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College

Other Skills

  • Ability to work independently and in teams
  • Ability to follow recipes
  • Ability to complete repetitious skills
  • Ability to guide oneself with little or no supervision and self-control
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Ability to stomach raw food

4500
Education Park Drive

Schnecksville, PA
18078

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