Wednesday, January 29, 2025
WECA’s GetWired training and delivery teams kicked off the New Year in usual fashion with their semi-annual virtual Train the Trainer meeting on January 11th.
During the meeting, the teams celebrated the arrival of new GetWired instructor Sergio Sanchez-Rangel, who also teaches as an Apprenticeship instructor at WECA’s Riverside training facility. He additionally joined our GetWired teaching team in 2024.
In addition to celebrating a new instructor, the teams also discussed new GetWired initiatives, such as the Ask an Instructor help button, the full availability of the entire GetWired Electrician Trainee Program certificate in a self-paced online format for trainees who prefer to complete the program on their own time and at their own pace, the update of the GetWired instructors’ handbook, the projected release of all courses on 2023 code beginning in January 2026 (always concurrent with California's rollover in certification exam code version), the recent addition of eight new how-to wiring videos for our GetWired students, and concluded the event with a freeform roundtable discussion. Our instructors always bring great ideas to the table!
Galen Eckert, the Electrician Trainee Program/Continuing Education Online Education Manager, says, “It was a fun time, as always, to catch up with everyone. We also talked about ways to get students interacting more throughout class, and touched on how important it is to tie our real-world experiences to the curriculum and share them with students. We also encouraged instructors to listen to recordings of other instructors so they can learn and find new teaching styles or stories for them to use in future classes.”
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