The welcome package and mentor’s guide are excellent start !! It would be even perfect if there is a transition program from trainee to full instructor. For example, before becoming a full instructor, a trainee has an opportunity being a co-instructor. As an analogy, an R1 medical doctor must go through intern stage.
-kai On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:47 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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