This guide provides information to enable coordinators to direct learning activities for students using an individualized study guide on being a welder's helper. The study material is designed for students enrolled in cooperative part-time training and employed, or desiring to be employed, as welders' helpers. Contents include a sample progress chart, suggested teaching procedures for the coordinators, answers to assignment sheets, answers to a unit test, a sheet with the study guide objective and specific objectives, 19 information sheets, 19 assignment sheets, 40 transparency masters, and a six-part unit test. The information sheets cover these topics: history and safety, equipment, welding flames, selecting welding tips, cutting torch terminology, the cutting torch, the cutting process, selecting cutting tips, history and terminology of arc welding, the arc welder and equipment, arc welding safety, electrode, welding terminology, weld types, introduction to MIG welding, introduction to TIG welding, equipment, definitions and identification, and safety rules and practices. (YLB)