I had one question after reading your post, and that's what role being a workshop helper/assistant has in the instructor on-boarding process?
A couple years ago before our explosive growth and the instructor training program, the on-boarding process was (perhaps informally), something like: - attend or be a helper at a workshop - teach at a workshop with an experienced instructor We have different processes and more people now, but you can't discount the value of "learn by doing". - Matt On Fri Dec 12 2014 at 10:47:53 AM Bill Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I spoke privately to some of you over the past couple weeks on what it's > like being a Software Carpentry instructor, particularly a new > instructor - what are the challenges you face, and what can we do to > make your first few workshops a smoother experience? I summarized the > most popular comments in this blog post: > http://mozillascience.org/starting-instruction-feedback- > from-the-new-instructor-community/ > > One of the main things that came out of this, was a need for a smoother > on-ramp going from Instructor Training to your first workshop - what are > the steps involved, how do you prepare, and what are everyone's > responsibilities? To this end, I think it would be valuable if we > created a short Welcome Package explaining these things and providing > some clear instructions for people, and a Mentor's Guide for more > experienced instructors guiding this process. More details are in the > blog post, but we're brainstorming ideas for both of these things in the > following etherpads: > > New Instructor Welcome Package: > https://etherpad.mozilla.org/newInstructorWelcomePackage > Mentor's Guide: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/SWCmentorsGuide > > What do people think? Please jump in and share your thoughts! Thanks in > advance, > > -- > Bill Mills > Community Manager, Mozilla Science Lab > @billdoesphysics > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists. > software-carpentry.org >
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