ELIXIR-Carpentry Instructor Training event in Stockholm (Sweden) on April 3rd-4th 2019, organized by the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE, in collaboration with ELIXIR Sweden and ELIXIR-IIB, also supported by de.NBI - ELIXIR, Germany.
The course is aimed at everyone who is interested in becoming a better teacher. In particular, this training is aimed at those who want to become Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry instructors, run workshops and contribute to the Carpentry training materials.
Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry's mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing. This hands-on two-day workshop covers the basics of educational psychology and instructional design, and looks at how to use these ideas in both intensive workshops and regular classes.
The workshop is a mix of lectures and hands-on lessons where you practice giving a short lesson using approaches learned and implement some of the teaching techniques which we will discuss. This is training for teaching, not technical training; you do not need any particular technical background, and we will not be teaching that. This workshop is based on the constantly revised and updated curriculum.
Please note that after this course is over, you will be asked to do three short follow-up exercises online in order to finish qualifying as an instructor: the details are available at https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/checkout/. If you have any questions about the workshop, the reading material, or anything else, please get in touch with jessica.lindvall@nbis.se
Course website: https://malvikasharan.github.io/2019-04-03-ttt-stockholm
Registration: Registration link
The Carpentries Instructor Training workshops are part of the ELIXIR-Carpentries programme aiming to help establishing a sustainable pool of professional Carpentry instructors within ELIXIR, who can then deliver high quality training across ELIXIR Nodes. Please, drop us an email to inb.hub@bsc.es if you are part of ELIXIR-ES or working in Spain and you are willing to be a Carpentries instructor.