This chart is designed to help students and parents understand the educational and physical expectations and/or recommendations for the Masonry 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 needed for safety around moving equipment, hand tools, power tools, and other equipment found in the industry
- Physical strength and stamina with the ability to lift 50 pounds overhead
- Ability to work in all weather conditions and have no fear of heights or working in closed spaces
- Learning and working environment with dust, dirt, and debris found in masonry industry, loud and sometimes startling noises, on-going background noise, moving people and construction equipment, small spaces, interior or exterior work factors (all weather conditions), high spaces using scaffolding and ladders
Essential Aptitudes Recommended
- Eye/hand/foot coordination
- Manual and finger dexterity
- Multi-limb coordination while standing, sitting, or lying down
- Arm-hand steadiness
- General body coordination and stamina that requires considerable use of arms, legs, and whole body
- Ability to visualize
- Spatial acuity
- Form perception
Reading & Language Arts Levels
- College Prep Reading and Language Arts
- Text written on a 10th -11th grade reading level
- Technical reading and writing skills
Math Level
- Basic Math skills
- College Prep Geometry
- Ability to calculate materials using floor plans, elevations, and sectional plans
- Ability to apply construction geometry, calculate board and square feet, linear measures, square measures, and cubic measures, convert fractions, decimals, and percentages, simplify measurements
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
- Shirt: $7
- Pants: $10-25
- Steel-tip work boots: $25-80
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
- Statewide Articulation Agreements
Other Skills
- Ability to work independently and with a team
- Critical thinking skills
- Inductive reasoning
- Problem solving and trouble-shooting skills
- Customer service skills