Train an apprentice at work
Your agency may call you a supervisor, coach or manager. If you watch the apprentice's work and sign their logbook, you are the trainer. This is what that asks of you.
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Your role as trainer
Why the apprentice's supervisor is nearly always the trainer, and what the role asks of you.
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Training that helps
The routines that keep an apprenticeship moving: the regular check-in, concrete skills, the journal, and what to do when progress stalls.
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Signing off the Training Standard
How to verify a skill honestly, what your signature commits you to, and what to do when someone is not ready.
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The pathway at a glance
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Register
- Check you qualify: 16 or older, Canadian citizen or permanent resident (work visas are not eligible), OSSD, GED or equivalent
- Your agency signs a Sponsor Agreement with Skilled Trades Ontario
- You apply on the Skilled Trades Ontario portal
- You and your sponsor sign the Training Agreement; STO registers it
- Download your Training Standard logbook
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Train
- 3,720 hours on the job, with your trainer signing off each skill set
- 780 hours of in-class courses at one of four colleges, usually one or two a semester
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Finish
- Logbook signed off and schooling complete
- You and your sponsor sign the Completion Form
- Skilled Trades Ontario mails your Certificate of Apprenticeship
- Optional: bridge to the DSW diploma at your college
Drawn against the Skilled Trades Ontario process in force since 2 April 2025.