Instructor note

  • 10 min teaching

Welcome and Introduction

What do we want to get out of this workshop

  • Introduction of instructors and helpers

  • Each instructor can say what we want to get out of the instructor training

  • But we want to know from everybody and collect these in the live notes

Goals for this workshop

  • Inspire teachers and staff who teach technical topics: Use best practices, especially for online teaching.

  • Promote collaboration in teaching.

  • Motivate new instructors to take up our lessons, remix them, and to contribute.

  • Get feedback to improve the material as well as our collaboration model.

  • Catalyze and form new networks and collaborations of teachers and trainers of practical scientific computing.

Giving confidence

Goal number one should be that we give participants the confidence to independently apply the tools or knowledge learnt. This is more important that giving a “complete” overview. [Lucy Whalley gave this great comment at a CodeRefinery workshop]

Tools for this workshop

We always start workshops with these:

Code of Conduct

We strive to follow the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct to foster an inclusive and welcoming environment for everyone.

In short:

  • Use welcoming and inclusive language

  • Be respectful of different viewpoints and experiences

  • Gracefully accept constructive criticism

  • Focus on what is best for the community

  • Show courtesy and respect towards other community members

  • Contact details to report CoC violations can be found here.

Furthermore, as this is a hands-on, interactive workshop:

  • Be kind to each other and help each other as best you can.

  • If you can’t help someone or there is some problem, let someone know.

Finally, if you notice something that prevents you from learning as well as you can, let us know and don’t suffer silently, even the “little things”:

  • Volume too low?

  • Font size too small?

  • Generally confusing instructor?

  • Not enough breaks?

Ice-breaker

Ice-breaker in groups (10 minutes)

  • Share your approach to teaching and/or your teaching philosophy with your group.

  • If your approach uses specific tricks and solutions, please share them in the live document for others.

Additional ice-breaker questions:

  • What is your motivation for taking this training?