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Center Delivers Train-the-Trainer Course in Cleveland

Posted May 2016

May 2-6, 2016, Center consultant Amri Joyner delivered the Center-developed Train-the-Trainer  course to eight current and future maintenance trainers from GCRTA and NFTA. This course was developed and piloted as part of the National Signals Training Consortium. Class participants represented five work areas: signals maintenance, rail vehicle, rail operations, bus maintenance, and electronic repair.

Feedback from the week included comments such as “[The most important thing I learned from this course are] the suggestions, techniques and feedback received from the practice training, specifically how to keep the participants engaged.” “[It is] hard to rate anything ‘least’ to be honest; everything had great value.” “I feel confident with the materials.” “This [training] was much better than expected and I learned why the [Center] structures the modules they way they do.”

This train-the-trainer session was unique, as it was aimed at developing current and potential instructors in rail maintenance as well as instructors who will pilot Transit Core Competencies Curriculum (TC3) at GCRTA later in May 2016. TC3 is an orientation and outreach program aimed at diverse audiences of young people and adults from the communities transit serves who are interested in a career in public transportation, providing knowledge and skills that will help them be successful in the job application process and initial training and apprenticeship programs.

For more information:

  On the Signals Consortium or Train-the-Trainer course, contact Program Manager of Instructional Design Julie Deibel
  Pictures from this and other Center efforts - visit our facebook page
  On the Transit Core Competencies Curriculum (TC3), contact Project Manager Pat Greenfield or visit Transit Training Network