| Welcome to the Recruitment Toolbox.
As a respected transportation professional, you have no doubt been asked at some point to participate in recruitment events and activities hosted by primary or secondary schools, colleges or universities, community groups, or other. In response to this request, you have likely either (1) spent significant time and energy outside of your workday researching available recruitment resources and independently developing transportation-related presentation materials and hands-on activities or exercises or (2) politely declined due to time and energy constraints. If your response was the latter, you are not alone.
To make it easier for transportation professionals to participate in local recruitment events and activities, the ITE Transportation Education Council, in cooperation with the Southwest Region University Transportation Center (SWUTC), has developed a “Recruitment Toolbox” that assimilates the best ideas from around the country into an easily accessible, electronic database of proven transportation-related activities and exercises intended to expose and recruit a variety of age groups to the transportation profession.
The Recruitment Toolbox contains a total of 92 activities that cover a range of age levels (Kindergarten through 12th Grade) and topic areas (e.g., environment and energy, planning and urban development, traffic safety, etc.). The companion Outreach Guidelines focus on understanding your audience and effectively engaging student participants.
The development of the Recruitment Toolbox represents a first step in encouraging higher quality and more frequent outreach to pre-college students. Through outreach at the local levels and by local volunteers, a much broader student audience can be exposed to the transportation profession and with greater frequency of exposure. The hope is that through high-quality and frequent exposure to transportation-related topics, students may develop a strong interest in pursuing a transportation-related career.
Read the Outreach Guidelines.
Use the form below to find an activity.
To find all activities, click "Find Activities" without selecting an option from the drop down menus.
Please complete the following surveys:
Updated 8/25/06
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