Our Mobile Learning Lab sessions are led by active or retired skilled trades professionals from all over the Upper Midwest. Becoming a skills based instructor serves as the perfect opportunity to share your passion and professional experience with the next generation of young learners. Whether you’re retired and looking for meaningful opportunities, or are a current skilled laborer looking to make a difference, we encourage you to apply. Our skilled trades instructor opportunities help fuel the Big Ideas nonprofit mission of showing young learners the benefits of skilled trades.
The student and skilled trades instructor relationship is a critical component of advancing the mission of Big Ideas and the future of skilled trades. By sharing your lifetime of trades knowledge at one of our VR educational trade skills stations, you can help young learners discover natural abilities they never knew they had. Your experience can help secure a better future for the world around us.
Why Become Skilled Trades Instructor?
If you’re an active or retired trades professional looking to share your lifetime of knowledge with the next generation, then becoming a skills based instructor or mentor at Big Ideas is the perfect opportunity for you. From flexible scheduling to rewarding interactions, there are countless reasons to become a Big Ideas skilled trades instructor. Here are just a few that keep our current team of trades professionals coming back time and time again:
- Set your own schedule
- Travel as much or as little as you’d like throughout the Upper Midwest
- Share your trade skills expertise with the tradespeople of the future
- Support the future infrastructure of our communities
- Uncover new vocational skills and opportunities for young learners
- Work with the latest in cutting-edge VR trades simulator technology
- Receive hands-on training to prepare you for your skilled trades station
- Receive competitive compensation on a consultancy basis
- Form strong relationships with your fellow Big Ideas skilled trades instructors
- Experience the priceless fulfillment that comes with paying your passion forward!
Your schedule is completely up to you! We are always booking events all across Minnesota and the Upper Midwest. As we book new events, we will reach out to you as early as possible, which could be weeks or months in advance to see if you can be put on the instructor list.
“I was mentored by many great people throughout my career, and I love being able to give back and teach young tradespeople who are following the same path.”
Rick Louwagie
Big Ideas Instructor
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