Technical training has exploded across the country, primarily because the need for skilled workers has grown exponentially. As older skilled workers retire, younger workers are needed to fill the void – which means training is a high priority for educators.

Whether you’re training at a middle or high school, a college or university, a vocational school, or your organization, you need technical training solutions like hands-on aids and software to effectively teach.

Here’s more on finding software and training apparatuses to bolster your curriculum and create a better experience for your students.

What Are Technical Training Solutions?

Simply put, technical training solutions are tools – both hands-on and digital/virtual – that you can use to create a better interactive training session for your students.

Imagine you’re teaching spray painting, for example. To use actual automobile parts and real paint can be complicated, time-consuming, and expensive. This means your students get less hands-on practice and costs pile up.

With a product like the SimSpray training system, however, you can use a virtual reality training system to simulate spray painting without wasting materials or time. The program even gives you diagnostic feedback that helps students better understand how to improve their technique – so that when they make it to real-life structures, they’ll be far more adept.

These aids exist for virtually any industry. They all take advantage of modern technology to greatly optimize the efficiency and quality of instruction (and they’re budget-friendly, to boot).

Qualities to Look For

A training aid should be:

• Simple to operate for the instructor
• Simple to use for students
• Capable of saving time and/or money
• Able to offer repeated training sessions
• Accurate and realistic
• Cost-effective for a budget

Based on that criteria, you should be able to find technical training solutions that fit your training curriculum’s goals. Some are quite specific; Lincoln Electrics Welding Simulator, for example, is ideal for initial, basic welding training, as a recruitment and engagement tool for educational and industry and for employment and screening for human resources or as an evaluation tool for instructors and educators to get a baseline on student knowledge.

It’s vital that the aid be easy to operate for both instructors and students. Learning suffers when the aid is too complex. That’s why training aid manufacturers purposefully design their solutions to teach a few fundamental concepts at a deep level so that students can grasp them, practice, improve, and move on to more complicated subjects.

Regardless of your purpose, there is probably a training aid that fits your needs. Search through our catalog of products sorted by state and industry to learn more about what’s available on the market for your curriculum.