Nov 8/9 and 15/16, 2023
1:00 to 4:00 PM ET
Instructors: Vanessa Gonzalez, Paula Pappalardo, Mike Trizna, Luis Villanueva
Helpers:
The Carpentries is a community of practice centered around teaching foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide. This Instructor Training event is designed to prepare trainees to certify and participate as Carpentries Instructors. However, much of our curriculum focuses on educational principles that apply across a wide variety of contexts. We also welcome participants who do not plan to certify but simply wish to become a better teacher.
Carpentries Instructor Training has the following goals:
Because we have only limited time, some things are beyond the scope of this training. We will not be learning:
Instructor Training events are hands-on throughout: short lessons alternate with individual and group practical exercises, including practice teaching sessions. This Instructor Training event is the first step towards certification as a Carpentries Instructor. For more details on the other 3 steps, see the Checkout Instructions page. For more information, see our Instructor Training Curriculum.
All participants are required to abide by The Carpentries Code of Conduct.
This training will take place online. The instructors will provide you with the information you will need to connect to this meeting.
Before your training, please visit our Preparing for Instructor Training page for complete instructions. A brief summary of these instructions is as follows
After the training event, we ask you to complete three follow-up tasks to become a certified Instructor. These requirements are detailed on our Checkout Instructions page and will be discussed at our training.
Trainees who miss more than 1 hour of the training may be marked absent. Instructor certification cannot be completed without full attendance at an Instructor Training event. If you unexpectedly need to miss more than 1 hour of your event, please contact your Trainers (contact info below).
For events in which registration occurs through The Carpentries via Eventbrite, cancellation may be performed in Eventbrite up to the start of the event. Canceled seats cannot be filled after the 1 week registration deadline for these events, so we ask that you only cancel if absolutely necessary.
More information on our cancellation and makeup policy is available in The Carpentries Handbook.
Please email carpentries@si.edu for more information.
Please read the following before the workshop begins:
Please also read through one episode of one of The Carpentries lessons below carefully, so that you can do some exercises based on it on the first day of the class. An episode is one page of a lesson.
| 1:00 | Welcome |
| 1:30 | Building Skill With Practice |
| 2:30 | Break |
| 2:45 | Expertise and Instruction |
| 3:30 | Memory and Cognitive Load |
| 4:10 | Building Skill With Feedback |
| 4:30 | Recap |
| 1:00 | Motivation and Demotivation |
| 2:00 | Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility |
| 2:40 | Break |
| 2:55 | Teaching is a Skill |
| 3:55 | Wrap-Up and Homework for Tomorrow |
| 4:30 | END |
| 1:00 | Welcome Back |
| 1:10 | Getting Started on Instructor Certification |
| 1:40 | The Carpentries: How We Operate |
| 2:25 | Break |
| 2:40 | Live Coding is a Skill |
| 3:45 | Preparing to Teach |
| 4:30 | END |
| 1:00 | More Practice Live Coding |
| 1:55 | Working With Your Team |
| 2:55 | Break |
| 3:10 | Launches and Landings |
| 3:50 | Putting It Together |
| 4:10 | Wrapping Up |
| 4:30 | HAPPY HALF HOUR? |
Etherpad: https://pad.carpentries.org/2023-11-08-ttt-si.
We will use this Etherpad for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.
Before attending the workshop, please fill out our pre-training survey.
After the workshop, please fill out our post-training survey.