Pre-workshop preparation

You don’t have to be a Carpentries instructor

Being a Carpentries instructor is not required to attend CodeRefinery instructor training workshop.

Preparation before the workshop (takes ca. 1 hour)

• Complete our pre-workshop survey. Your responses will help us to customize the workshop appropriately.

• Read this short paper The Science of Learning which provides a brief overview of some key evidence-based results in teaching. This paper is also used by The Carpentries for their Instructor Training workshops.

• Watch at least two of recorded ca. 5-minute lightning overview videos introducing various CodeRefinery lessons to get an overview of what we teach in CodeRefinery and also to be able to practice CodeRefinery teaching on day 2 of this course.

• Watch at least two of recorded “this is my training philosophy” videos which we will discuss in group discussions and which will form the basis for a group exercise.

• Please go through a CodeRefinery lesson and find one topic/episode/aspect that you find interesting. During a group session you will be asked to present a topic/episode/aspect of your choice for 5 minutes and get constructive feedback.

Remark

Don’t worry if there are sections you do not understand. The main objective is to have a baseline for our discussions, not to check your ability to teach the lesson during the instructor training workshop.