Community teaching training

Under development (mid 2022)

As of mid-2022, this material has been reworked for our summer workshop and for the CarpentryCon 2022 workshop. The material will continue to be improved before a longer training session in the autumn.

This material is the new version of our previous Instructor training.

What this course covers

In 2020, we got farther from our offices but closer to each other. If you could adapt to the circumstances, a huge number of possibilities were opened - in particular with collaborative teaching. In this training, you will learn how we use them. Teaching from 2019 is almost obsolete - join us to learn more.

  • Tools of teaching: how to make the most out of online (and other) teaching.

  • Workshop organization, collaboratively: our vision of teaching together outside of our silos.

  • Socio-technical factors: social and technical barriers to learning, why you need to care, and what you can do about them.

  • Lesson development, collaboratively: how to design lessons and teaching materials so that they can be open and shared.

Who is the course for?

Teaching is a profession, but also something that everyone needs to be able to do to some degree, since everyone has their own personal specialties they will either teach or mentor.

This course can be relevant for different learner personas:

  • You run a practical teaching program at your institution (for example as part of a research computing group) and would like to learn best practices for collaborative teaching, so that you aren’t re-inventing the same thing over and over again.

  • You are a technical specialist who is frustrated with the way you currently try to teach others who need to use your software or infrastructure. You can’t spend too much time to become a professional, but you know you need something more than what you’ve been doing. Thus, you would like to adopt some of the best practices of designing and teaching interactive, hands-on workshops.

  • You’ve been teaching alone, but would like to join a collaboration network for more co-teaching and to reduce the amount of duplication of effort.

  • You are interested in teaching CodeRefinery lessons, and would like a comprehensive kick-start to how CodeRefinery works, either to join us, or teach its lessons with us or independently.

Preparation

Introduction

Teaching tools

Workshop organization

Social-technical considerations

Lesson design and development

Wrap-up, future, and getting involved

Reference

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