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Instructor's Corner
News From the National Highway Institute
Quarterly Newsletter - December 2024
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The National Highway Institute (NHI) Instructors stand above the rest. Navigating your learners on the Road to Success requires expertise and commitment to adult learning. Whether you lead a virtual or in-person training, your influence on learners extends beyond the training room.
This Edition’s Highlights:
- Instructor of Excellence Award Season
- Training Tips and Best Practices
- Focus Group Participation
- Insight into How to Boost Training Session Enrollment
- Key Dates and Announcements
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Honoring Inspiring Instructors
It is NHI’s Instructor of Excellence award season! In honor of the contributions and achievements that NHI-Certified Instructors have made throughout 2024, we are celebrating your achievements.
Each year, NHI recognizes outstanding educators nationally who have gone above and beyond to deliver high-quality instruction, foster engagement, and advance transportation education.
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The Instructor of Excellence Certificate is more than just an award – it honors the lasting impact you have on every learner, whether they are taking their first course or the hundredth. Stay tuned for nominee announcements.
Your Road to Success: Training Tips and Best Practices for Instructors
As NHI Instructors, refreshing and enhancing your teaching skills is strategic and smart, whether you are new to teaching or a classroom veteran. NHI provides resources to help you continue delivering world-class instruction.
The Instructor Development Course (IDC) comprehensively builds Instructor skills, while the Masterclass offers tools, tips, and techniques for increasing learner engagement.
Visit National Highway Institute | Home for details on upcoming Masterclass sessions or check Blackboard for IDC availability at FHWA NHI.
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Your Voice Is Important: Join a Focus Group to Share Instructor Feedback
Listening to participants’ feedback is important, but NHI also values the instructors’ perspective. Your unique insights and experience in the classroom are critical to improving our courses, refining content, and ensuring learners receive the highest quality instruction. To gather your input, NHI uses the Kirkpatrick Model, a widely recognized training evaluation tool, to collect your feedback, ideas, experiences, and concerns.
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Your invaluable feedback will help to address current questions and mitigate potential issues. Some questions you can expect, include:
- “Which teaching tools or methods have made the biggest impact in your sessions?”
- “How are learners applying NHI course lessons to their work?”
- “What challenges have you faced in delivering content, and how can we better support you?”
To learn more about NHI focus groups, visit NHI’s booth (834) at the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Annual Conference 2025.
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Key Dates and Announcements |
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Instructors of Excellence – NHI will review course feedback and collect information to identify this year’s Instructors of Excellence nominees. Stay tuned to the Lanes of Learning monthly newsletter to see the next honorees!
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Upcoming IDCs – NHI frequently hosts IDCs to help instructors stay up to date on policies, explore new teaching tools, and enhance learner-centric teaching methodologies. The IDC will be updated in 2025 and supplemented by an IDC for Virtual Training. Contact NHI at NHIinstructorliaison@dot.gov or 703.235.0537 for more information, or search Instructor Development at FHWA NHI.
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TRB 2025 – Save the Date! – NHI will be at TRB 2025 in Washington, D.C.! Mark your calendar for January 5-7, 2025. We will showcase our latest course offerings and innovative teaching strategies.
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Here to Help
Sometimes, filling courses is challenging. Too few learners may be interested, know about it, or have the time. Hosts and instructors are responsible for promoting their course and ensuring learners benefit from a session. NHI helps hosts and instructors fill vacant seats in a course when assistance is needed. NHI will partner with you to boost enrollment to achieve an ideal collaborative learning environment by promoting your course in our network.
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Paving the Way
As NHI Instructors, you are the driving force behind the Road to Success for learners. NHI thanks you for the incredible work you do every day. You are more than instructors, you are leaders, innovators, and role models for the future of transportation. Together, we’re not just teaching courses, we’re shaping a safer, more efficient, and more connected transportation system for a better world.
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For more information, questions about NHI training, or help filling a course session, please get in touch with NHI at nhicustomerservice@dot.gov or 877.558.6873.
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Disclaimer
Except for any statutes or regulations cited, the contents of this publication do not have the force and effect of law and are not meant to bind the States or the public in any way. This publication is intended only to provide information regarding existing requirements under the law or agency policies.
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