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WOODWORK TECHNICIAN

Programme/ Opportunities after finishing education/ Curriculum/ Textbook Fund

A woodwork technician is responsible for the following tasks: planning and preparing production, both operationally and technologically, managing large groups of people on various wood processing lines, supervising computer-controlled machinery, designing and developing new products, supervising the quality of work and products, participating in all marketing, sales and after-sales activities, training workers, etc.

In addition to skilled hands and fingers, good eyesight, distinction of colours and spatial imagination, a wood technician must have a sense of technical drawing and sketching, a joy for design and technical problem solving, and a sense of cooperation and working with people. The vocational training for this profession lasts 4 years and you will graduate with the Vocational Baccalaureate.

Course of education	Number of weeks
Education in school	136
Practical training in the company	4
Extracurricular activities	11
Total	151

Course of the programme

1

Conditions for admission

Successful completion of primary school.

2

Performance

In our experience, students who do well in Maths, Slovenian, Foreign Language and Physics in primary school and who have good working habits tend to perform better.

3

Matura or the Vocational Baccalaureate

Schooling ends with the Vocational Baccalaureate. It includes a compulsory and an elective part.

The compulsory part consists of a written and oral part of an exam in Slovene and Woodworking, while the optional part consists of Mathematics or a Foreign Language.

Opportunities after finishing education

The Vocational Baccalaureate offers students the opportunity to find employment in the extremely wide and varied field of woodworking: sawmills, furniture industry, joinery industry, timber, laminated timber beams, panelling, veneer production, prefabrication of prefabricated timber houses, wood engineering, shipbuilding, production of specific machinery for timber production, etc.

Wood technicians are happily employed in furniture stores, building material shops, etc.

In addition to professional skills, the school also offers sufficient entrepreneurial skills to make it easier to set up and successfully run your own business.

The Vocational Baccalaureate also opens up a range of new opportunities for further study in all higher and higher education programmes.

University studies are also possible, but require an exam in one of the Baccalaureate subjects. The Woodwork High School provides good starting conditions for the fulfilment of professional ambitions and dreams.

Curriculum

A - General education subjects

Label	Name of the subject	O/E	Number of lessons	Number of credit points
P1	Slovene	Obligatory	487	24
P2	Foreign Language	Obligatory	417	20
P3	Mathematics	Obligatory	383	19
P4	Art	Obligatory	68	3
P5	History	Obligatory	102	5
P6	Geography	Obligatory	68	3
P7	Psychology	Elective	68	3
P8	Sociology	Elective	68	3
P9	Physics	Obligatory	140	6
P10	Chemistry	Obligatory	70	3
P11	PE	Obligatory	340	14
Total for A			2143	100

B - Professional modules

Label	Subject	O/E	Number of lessons	Number of credit points
M1	Use of technical communication and computers	Obligatory	102	5
M2	Wood and its properties	Obligatory	110	6
M3	Processing technology with occupational safety	Obligatory	136	7
M4	Constructing wood Assemblies	Obligatory	80	4
M5	Materials in woodworking	Obligatory	110	6
M6	Mechanical processing of wood	Obligatory	220	11
M7	Wood-processing machinery	Obligatory	134	7
M8	Furniture design	Obligatory	210	10
M9	Technological processes the woodworking industry	Obligatory	90	4
M10	Production technology	Obligatory	90	4
M11	Company and work preparation	Obligatory	102	5
M12	Designing	Obligatory	220	11
M13	Economics of production processes	Elective	60	3
M14	Interior furnishing	Elective	60	3
M15	Sawmilling and drying	Elective	60	3
Total B			1724	86

Other

Program	Number of hours	Number of credit points
C -Practical lessons	504	19
Č - Practical training with work, experience at an employer's premises	152	6
D - Extracurricular activities	352	14
E - Open part of the curriculum	612	30

Together

Programme	Number of hours	Number of credit points
Lessons ( A+B+E)	4479	216
Practical lessons (C+Č)	656	25
In school education ( A+B+D+E)	4831	230
A+B+Č+D+E	4983	236

The final examination (product/service and presentation) is worth 4 credit points.

Open curriculum content for Wood Technicianof

TEXTBOOK FUND - Woodwork Technician

Buying new textbooks is a significant expense for students and their parents, so we offer the possibility to borrow school textbooks. Our textbook stock includes all textbooks approved in the catalogue of textbooks for vocational, technical and other professional schools. We have sets of textbooks for all programmes in all years of study, and students can also borrow individual textbooks.

The loan fee is one third of the value of the textbooks.

The list of textbooks and the loan notices for the 2021/22 textbook fund and other teaching materials developed by the teachers' professional bodies are available at the links below: