Instructors

The training center offers a full-time staff of 3 professional teachers, including Director Dennis Gralike and Superintendent of Related Instruction Tim Kelley. The full-time teaching staff, all certified by the Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education, bring a combined total of more than 200 years experience in the field to their instruction and an average of more than eight years each as a teacher.

Full-time staff members participate in an annual training institute presented at the University of in Michigan Ann Arbor. Instructors gain a full week of college-level professional training dedicated to the development of their instructional skills, technological awareness, curriculum enhancement and superior education. The union electrical industry’s National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (NJATC) employs a full-time staff to accomplish its training mission. Staff members include curriculum specialists, technical writers and administrative professionals.

The St. Louis Electrical Industry Training Center employs a part-time staff of more than 20 instructors, all of whom are registered with the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

All are IBEW journeymen with an average of more than 25 years each in the industry. Instructors teach more than 40 classes each year, with 700 to 1,000 journeymen participating.