Instructor Insight: Developing a Shop Class for the 21st Century
After years of being a shop owner and not knowing a better way, I developed my automotive class as I would a shop or service center with lots of employees. My class/lab reflects the world of work more than the average academic classroom.
Real Wolrd: CC & TC Captures Top School Honors
Caddo Career & Technology Center, a vocational high school in Shreveport, LA, was named the Tomorrow’s Technician/Chicago Pneumatic 2010 School of the Year.
Real Word: What It Takes to be an Automotive Technician These Days
Public general education and technical education in particular isn’t serving our industries as well as they should, nor are the automotive parts and service industries supporting public education as well as they should.
Special Report: Product Training and Technology: More Like Rocket Science
Just when technicians think they have a handle on product training, something new is introduced to the market. Do you have the time, money and smarts to stay informed?
Special Report: Training is an Attitude
It’s a fixed business expense just like heat, lights and insurance. Shop owners must be willing to change right along with vehicle technology to meet the challenges of the future.
Special Report: The ABCs of Technical Skill Levels
Sitcom stereotypes are no match for today’s master technician.
Manufacturing Industry Needs Young Skilled Workers
Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs Provides Support for Kids to Tinker
Manufacturing Industry Needs Young Skilled Workers
Dual Enrollment Programs Open Doors To Skilled Labor Trades
A new generation of students has found the fast track to the high-tech manufacturing jobs of the future by simultaneously completing their high school education while also taking technical college programming.
NA3SA Assessment Widely Accepted
The NA3SA is a series of tests designed to measure students’ knowledge of course content and learning outcomes within an automotive training program.
Opinion: What It Takes To Be An Automotive Technician — These Days
Most people inside and outside our industry drastically underestimate what it takes to educate the modern automotive technician.