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Instructor Bootcamp

In Support of Regional Workforce Capacity Building

SUNY Oswego’s Instructor Bootcamp* was created to train professionals from high-demand industries such as: construction, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, electronics, mechatronics, and mechanical technology to serve as instructors in regional community college, adult education, apprenticeship readiness, and registered apprenticeship programs. The Instructor Bootcamp offers a comprehensive foundation and introduction to key teaching skills. It is highly adaptable to the diverse needs of businesses, organizations and industries because the program is designed to help all instructors learn the fundamentals of how to effectively construct and deliver a course, regardless of its content, and assess its outcomes.

*Note: This Instructor Bootcamp does not lead to K-12 classroom certification

Opportunity

Instructor Bootcamp candidates with validated years of industry work experience and relevant industry certification or licensing will be referred to the Instructor Bootcamp by SUNY Oswego’s workforce development partners.

  • Participants will enroll (at no cost to them) in the 40-hour Instructor Bootcamp taught online during weeknight evenings (40 hours inclusive of class time and additional out-of-class, self-paced assignments).
  • Participants will receive a laptop and earn up to a $1,000 participation stipend.
  • Upon successful completion and confirmation of hire by a workforce development partner, participants will earn a $100 completion bonus.

Each Instructor Bootcamp will cover 5 modules:

  1. Curriculum and Laboratory Management Systems
  2. Instructional Delivery and Assessment in Skills Training
  3. Serving Diverse Learners in Career and Technical Education
  4. Integration of Technology in Curriculum Design and Implementation
  5. Social Emotional Learning and Career Counseling 

Instructor Bootcamp participants will learn:

  • Instructional and classroom engagement strategies which will be practiced in classroom simulation settings with real-time coaching provided
  • Ways to create a welcoming and inclusive learning environment for all students
  • Use of instructional technology and online learning systems
  • Soft skills and occupation-specific employability skills

Outcomes

To date, Instructor Bootcamp graduates have been referred to participate in an Instructor Bootcamp cohort and/or employed by the following workforce development partners to teach in-demand occupations:

  • Cayuga Community College
  • Central New York Electrical Training Alliance
  • CPS Recruitment (Syracuse Build Pathways to Apprenticeship)
  • CenterState CEO
  • Finishing Trades Institute of Western and Central New York
  • Ironworkers Local 60
  • Laborers' International Union of North America Local 17 Training and Educational Fund
  • MACNY
  • Mohawk Valley Community College
  • New York State Building and Construction Trades Council
  • Oneida-Herkimer-Madison (OHM) BOCES
  • Onondaga Community College
  • SUNY Buffalo EOC
  • SUNY Syracuse EOC
  • Syracuse City School District
  • Tompkins Build (Ithaca Area Economic Development)
  • TradesFutures
  • UA Local 81

Bootcamp Dates

The first Instructor Bootcamp cohort will begin in September 2023 and subsequent cohorts will start in December 2023, March 2024, August 2024, March 2025, May 2025, and August 2025.

Cohort Five 
Dates: March 25–May 28, 2025

Registration Deadline 
February 15, 2025

To register, email [email protected] and request to receive the pre-registration form link.

QR code to register for instructor bootcamp

 

Cohort 1 participants, instructors, and partners
Instructor Bootcamp Cohort 1 participants, instructors, and partners at SUNY Oswego's Syracuse Campus.

Delivered online with an in-person kick-off at

SUNY Oswego’s Syracuse Campus

2 Clinton Square, Syracuse, NY 13202 
oswego.edu/syracuse

Instructor Bootcamp Cohort Five Schedule1

Instructor Bootcamp Kick-Off
In-person @ SUNY Oswego's Syracuse Campus
Tues. 3/25/25 | 5 – 7 p.m.

Module 1: Curriculum and Lab Management
Taught via Zoom, Mon. 3/31/25 and Tues. 4/1/25 | 5 – 7 p.m.
+ Weekly online coursework (at own pace)

Module 4: Integration of Technology in Curriculum Design and Implementation
Taught via Zoom, Mon. 4/7/25 and Tues. 4/8/25 | 5 – 7 p.m.
+ Weekly online coursework (at own pace)

Module 3: Serving Diverse Learners in CTE
Taught via Zoom, Mon. 4/14/25 and Tues. 4/15/25 | 5 – 7 p.m.
+ Weekly online coursework (at own pace)

Module 2: Instructional Delivery and Assessment in Skills Training
Taught via Zoom, Mon. 4/21/25 and Tues. 4/22/25 | 5 – 7 p.m.
+ Weekly online coursework (at own pace)

Module 5: Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and Career Counseling
Part 1: Taught via Zoom, Mon. 4/28/25 and Tues. 4/29/25 | 5 – 7 p.m.
+ Weekly online coursework (at own pace)
Part 2: Taught via Zoom, Mon. 5/5/25 and Tues. 5/6/25 | 5 – 7 p.m.
+ Weekly online coursework (at own pace)

Micro Teaching
Taught via Zoom, scheduled between faculty and participants during the week of 5/12/2025

Building Trades MC3 Train-the-Trainer (optional)2
Held in-person, Mon. 5/19/25 and Tues. 5/20/25 @ SUNY Oswego SYR Campus | 5 – 8 p.m. each night

Bootcamp Closing Ceremony
In-person @ SUNY Oswego's Syracuse Campus, Wed. 5/28/25 | 5 – 6 p.m.


 

1All 5 modules will be taught via Zoom.
2MC3 Training is only applicable to participants who require this training.

Funding for the SUNY Oswego Instructor Bootcamp is provided by an Empire State Development Office of Strategic Workforce Development Pay for Performance Operating Grant awarded to the Research Foundation for SUNY with in-kind contributions from Cayuga Community College, CenterState CEO, SUNY Oswego, SUNY Syracuse EOC, and TradesFutures.

New York State of Opportunity Empire State Development
SUNY Research Foundation