Green Collar WorkForce Curriculum Innovations

Bite Size Modules

By presenting modules with focused content, the Green Collar WorkForce Curriculum content becomes more easily digestible with specific modules designed to weave previous concepts together and building up a significant knowledge base in the students with each level. Units will build upon previous units and modules will build upon previous modules. This natural progression with ample time and material for covering content at each stage will convey the information at a manageable pace. The Tell, Show, Do approach within each module results in knowledge retention as well as presenting the information in a familiar and comfortable format.

Up to Date Information

To say the least, the energy industry is rapidly changing. This curriculum program is designed to incorporate changes pertaining to the industry as they happen. By offering the curriculum online, educational materials will be regularly modified to incorporate changes in energy code, industry standards, legislation and incentives as well as interjecting current events that effect energy. Smaller changes will happen on the fly and the entirety of the curriculum will be revised annually.

Experiential Model of Content Delivery

Activities, lab, field work, videos, blogs, social media marketing and the like will keep students busy with tasks that are goal oriented and great practice for real world conditions. One of the most important benefits of this program is that students receive the education and the job specific experience critical for obtaining employment.

Marketing

The Green Collar WorkForce Curriculum introduces modern marketing strategies and cultivates a state of the art vehicle for students to market themselves to potential employers or to market their own businesses potential clients. By teaching internet responsibility and social media marketing, the curriculum will get students ready to compete in a growing industry. Students will establish their professional internet presence and develop a digital network to purvey their skills and knowledge.

Education Based Quality Assurance

In many cases, quality assurance is focused on picking out issues in process and product so that companies can determine how to fix the issues. Integrating training with a focus on education during the quality assurance process will create efficiencies in the process. Oftentimes in energy auditing and retrofits, their are differences in opinions and protocols for various tasks. Integrating the content for classroom, lab and field training and the quality assurance process will create a consistency. To further educational effectiveness, the same individuals will be trainers and quality assurance providers. Having continuity of trainers, quality assurance personnel and curriculum during the training and quality assurance process will maximize knowledge understanding and retention, resulting in highly trained and competent industry professionals.

Technical Assistance at Every Stage of the Workflow

One of the most challenging aspects of the energy retrofit process is developing scopes of work for units. Lack of experience can exacerbate this issue and lead to the implementation of strategies that don’t result in true improvement of home performance. To alleviate this potential pitfall, participants will have a direct contact for answering questions and situations that arise in retrofits while creating their scopes of work. By incorporating multimedia, the program will explore the utilization of different methodologies for communicating home conditions, asking questions and delivering the answers.