Welcome
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The Carpentries is a community of practice. We strive to provide a welcoming environment for all learners and take our Code of Conduct seriously.
This episode sets the stage for the entire workshop. The introductions and exercises help everyone begin to develop a relationship and trust.
This workshop will cover evidence-based teaching practices and how they apply specifically to The Carpentries.
Learner motivation and prior knowledge vary widely, and can be quickly assessed with a multiple choice question.
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Building Skill With Practice
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Our goal when teaching novices is to help them construct useful mental models.
Exploring our own mental models can help us prepare to convey them.
Constructing a useful mental model requires practice and corrective feedback.
Formative assessments provide practice for learners and feedback to learners and instructors.
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Expertise and Instruction
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Experts face challenges when teaching novices due to expert awareness gaps.
Things that seem easy to us are often not experienced that way by our learners.
With practice, we can develop skills to overcome our expert awareness gaps.
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Memory and Cognitive Load
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Most adults can store only a few items in short-term memory for a few seconds before they lose them again.
Things seen together are remembered (or mis-remembered) in chunks.
Cognitive load should be managed through guided practice to facilitate learning and prevent overload.
Formative assessments can help to consolidate learning in long-term memory.
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Building Skill With Feedback
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Wrap-Up and Homework
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So far, we have learned about how people learn, how to build a positive classroom environment, and how to give feedback.
Tomorrow we will cover specifics of Carpentries workshops and teaching practices.
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Welcome Back
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Motivation and Demotivation
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A positive learning environment helps people concentrate on learning.
People learn best when they see the utility in what they’re learning and believe it can be accomplished with reasonable effort.
Encouraging participation and embracing errors helps learners to stay motivated.
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Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
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Teaching is a Skill
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Like all other skills, good teaching requires practice and feedback.
Lesson study is essential to transferring skills among teachers.
Feedback is most effective when those involved share ground rules and expectations.
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Wrap-Up and Homework
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So far, we have learned about how people learn, how to build a positive classroom environment, and how to give feedback.
Tomorrow we will cover specifics of Carpentries workshops and teaching practices.
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Welcome Back
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Instructors guide learners to construct the proper big picture (accurate mental model) of the topic rather than focus on details.
Instructors rely on frequent feedback from learners to monitor their own presentation of the material.
Instructors introduce a few concepts at a time to avoid cognitive overload.
The best way to motivate learners? Show them how to do something they can immediately put to use and be enthusiastic about it.
Teaching is a learned skill.
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Getting Started on Instructor Certification
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To certify, you must contribute to a lesson, take part in a discussion, and do a teaching demo within 90 days of your training event.
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The Carpentries: How We Operate
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Live Coding is a Skill
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Live coding forces the instructor to slow down.
Coding-along gives learners continuous practice and feedback.
Mistakes made during participatory live coding are valuable learning opportunities.
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Live Coding is a Skill - cont
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Live coding forces the instructor to slow down.
Coding-along gives learners continuous practice and feedback.
Mistakes made during participatory live coding are valuable learning opportunities.
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Preparing to Teach
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To teach effectively, you have to know who you are teaching.
Good learning objectives identify specific events that can be evaluated through formative assessment.
A good exercise informs Learners and Instructors when an objective is achieved.
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Wrap-Up and Homework
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So far, we have learned about how people learn, how to build a positive classroom environment, and how to give feedback.
Tomorrow we will cover specifics of Carpentries workshops and teaching practices.
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Welcome Back
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More Practice Live Coding
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Working With Your Team
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Team work takes work, but allows you to share the load and build connections.
Working with a broad range of learners can be challenging, but there are many ways to keep a classroom happy and motivated.
The instructional team decides how to respond to Code-of-Conduct incidents during a workshop; all violations should be reported to The Carpentries Code of Conduct committee for follow-up.
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Launches and Landings
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Putting It Together
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Wrapping Up
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