Instructor introduction

This page gives general instructor information: the starting point on your journey.

What’s it like as an instructor?

We teach online, livestream, and with co-teaching. That means the lesson is a conversation between two instructors, instead of one person alone and many students. It’s especially easy to get started this way: co-teach with someone experienced!

You can see a demo of what livestream co-teaching is like here: https://youtu.be/WjmttAniZX8?t=3 (15 min, many different scenes).

Typically, teaching at workshops works like. All of these are discussed in the Instructor kickstart program (a three-session prep on top of the below):

• The instructor coordinator calls for volunteers for instructors and fits them into slots. They consider people’s interests, who is new (pairing them with experienced people), schedules, and so on.

• Co-instructors meet and plan out their lessons (Teaching plan) - basically, how they work together as co-instructors. This is usually not so hard, since these have all been taught before.

• Review the lesson and make any necessary updates (Lesson review checklist) - it’s not supposed to be major rewrites, the most important part is to make sure that everything works with the current CodeRefinery software environments.

• Try to do one full run-through.

• Teach together! Don’t worry, you have each other.

See also

There are other significant training resources that go into actual teaching pedagogy, if you’d like:

Reading elsewhere:

• CodeRefinery instructor training

• Carpentries instructor training

Practice session:

• CodeRefinery train-the-trainer, streaming practice 1