Investments in training and development of employees can make them more productive and more effective in their jobs, directly contributing to the bottom line. Studies have shown that a well-trained workforce leads to lower employee turnover, which is associated with higher customer satisfaction, which in turn is a driver of profitability. Learn what the Solar Instructor Training Network (SITN), a DOE SunShot initiative, is doing to help establish a well-trained workforce in support of the solar industry. Find-out how IREC, as National Administrator of the SITN, is providing the building blocks in support of solar training that will help companies maintain a competitive advantage.

1. Better Trained Workers Affect Your
Bottom Line: The Solar Instructor
Training Network (SITN) at Work
Joe Sarubbi – Project Manager
Mary Lawrence – Project Coordinator

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3. Cost of Training?

4. Performance = Value

6. Solar Instructor Training Network

7. To date, over 840 instructors
have received training and 348
institutions and organizations
have partnered with the RTPs.

8. Expertise
Coordination
Midwest
Northeast
Southeast
Guidance
California
Hawaii
IREC
Rocky
Mountain
Showcase
Northern
MidAtlantic
Resources
Southern
MidAtlantic
South
Central
Collaboration

10. Solar Energy Education and
Training Best Practices:
The Series

11. ➢ Becoming an Effective Teacher
➢ Curriculum and Program Development
➢ Developing a Quality Course
➢ Exemplary Solar Programs
➢ Solar Content Integration
➢ Textbooks, References, and
Other Instructional Resources
➢ Photovoltaic Labs

12. Photovoltaic Labs
PV Labs Intro slide
Hudson Valley Community College, TEC-SMART, Malta, NY

15. Photovoltaic Online Training
Course for Code Officials

16. Teachers call it copying…
We call it teamwork!
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18. THANKS to our generous sponsors for the
2013 3iForum and 3iAwards

19. Thank You!
www.sitnusa.org