Classroom Instruction

(1) Classroom instruction may include instruction in project planning methods for identifying manpower, equipment, and financial resource needs; bookkeeping; project scheduling; state bidding and bonding requirements; state and federal tax requirements; strategies for obtaining loans and surety bonding; and techniques for negotiating and drafting joint venture agreements. (2) The Department may establish a classroom curriculum. (3) The Department may establish classes, course requirements, and class testing requirements. (4) Conduct of Classroom Instruction. (a) The Department shall approve the number of courses and types of courses that shall compose a complete program of instruction by trade or profession for Certified Small Businesses desiring admission to the BGP. Satisfactory completion of the classroom curriculum shall be required of all applicants for the BGP that have not received exemption from the CMDP. (b) Curriculum Standards. The Department shall approve the program of courses established by the educational institutions and/or private sector firms for specific trade and professional groups that must be successfully completed (to meet Minimum Curriculum Standards of Proficiency) in order to receive a Certification of Proficiency for each definitive group. Those groups may include: 1. General contractors, highway construction; and CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM CHAPTER 1680-8-3 2. Special trade/professional contractors including asphalt paving, building, construction/modification, concrete, miscellaneous, drainage, earthwork, erosion control, fencing, guardrail, landscaping, painting, steel, traffic control, trucking, architecture, business and financial management, consultants, and materials supply. (5) Follow-up of Classroom Instruction. Participants who desire to take additional classroom instruction may be permitted to do so without paying an additional application fee, but all course registration fees shall have to be paid.