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The Center Will Deliver its Train-the-Trainer Bootcamp at the NTI Transit Trainers Workshop this Mar

Posted February 2017

Continuing from the last NTI’s well-received workshop on Transit Training Bootcamp, this workshop helps transit trainers with insights into the principles of adult learning and presents techniques on how to deliver good training. This workshop introduces methods for technical experts to successfully transfer skills and knowledge to others. The three hour Bootcamp will be presented by Amri Joyner on the afternoon of Sunday, March 26th. This workshop introduces the fundamentals of training delivery, including:

  Needs and challenges facing transit trainers
  The role of the transit trainer
  Characteristics of quality instruction
  Effective instructional design techniques
  Preparing for training

For more information on our Train the Trainer courses, please contact Julie Deibel-Pundt. For information on the NTI Transit Trainers Workshop, visit their site.

APTA Accepting Applications for the 2017 Youth Summit

Do you know a high school student who will be a junior or senior in the fall of 2017? If so, invite them to join fellow students from across North America this summer in Washington, DC to learn how public transportation shapes communities, advances education and promotes a sustainable environment. With this all-expenses paid opportunity, the selected students will:

  Experience five days in the nation’s capital
  Meet lawmakers and congressional leaders
  Discover the wide range of exciting career paths within the public transit industry
  Learn how public transportation is helping shape a brighter future

For more information visit:  www.apta.com/youthsummit

Center Board Member Profiled by People Who Move People

People Who Move People - January 24, 2017
When Nuria Fernandez was growing up in Panama, water was a big part of her world. In addition to living by the water, she spent a couple summers interning at one of the canal locks of the Panama Canal, a feat of engineering that her great-grandfather had helped to construct. “But for some reason I’ve always been in surface [transportation],” she says. “I’ve never thought of pursuing a career in the maritime field.”