CodeRefinery instructor training
CodeRefinery instructor training is focused on helping competent practitioners and experts teach their knowledge to others. It also serves a kickstart to teaching CodeRefinery lessons, but we also have a gradual pathway of learner → helper → advanced helper → instructor as well.
Prerequisites
This course has no strict prerequisites, but
It is helpful if you have attended CodeRefinery or Carpentries workshops, which teach in an interactive and hands-on way.
We assume you already have competence in the technical tools you want to teach. Many of our concepts use examples from CodeRefinery lessons, such as version control or other software development tools.
While not a prerequisite for this course, version control (git) is necessary to contribute to lessons development the way we show here (but the lesson design concepts are applicable to other styles, too).
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The lesson
- Pre-workshop preparation
- Welcome and introduction
- About the CodeRefinery project
- CodeRefinery teaching philosophies
- Interactive teaching style
- The Carpentries and CodeRefinery approaches to teaching
- Running a workshop: online
- Lesson design
- Collaborative lesson development
- How to teach online
- Teaching practice and feedback
- Future
- Organize a CodeRefinery workshop
Reference
Who is the course for?
You are interested in teaching CodeRefinery lessons, and would like a comprehensive kickstart to how CodeRefinery works either to join us, or teach its lessons with us or independently.
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 would like the most important practices from the Carpentries instructor training/lesson design philosophy, but can not take the time for the full Carpentries program.
About the course
This course gives an introduction to
Science and philosophy of teaching
How to teach interactive, hands-on lessons
How to design interactive, hands-on lessons
How CodeRefinery runs workshops
How CodeRefinery has scaled up and taken the best advantage of online teaching
CodeRefinery itself
The CodeRefinery collaboration network (and related networks in the Nordics)
See also
Our gradual pathway to instructor from the manuals: helper intro and instructor intro.
Carpentries instructor training - more intensive, but focused only on teaching.
Teaching Tech Together, a book about similar topics by someone involved in Carpentries.