Hi, Late to the discussion. I would love to see a mentorship crystallising, but realise geographics and time-pressures may be in the way for some.
One question though: to what extend is 'preparing for your first workshop' already part of the instructor training? And should it be a (bigger) part? It won't solve all issues (there is nothing like actually standing there in front of the students for the first time), but it may help with preparing both mentally and practically. Lex On 16 Dec 2014, at 00:12, Greg Wilson wrote: Hi Bill; thanks for your mail. - Clear guidance for instructors in the form of a short, useful Instructor Handbook, that guides the process of setting up & preparing for a workshop. This should be short, practical, and complete - feel free to continue brainstorming at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/newInstructorWelcomePackage, and perhaps we can write up a first cut based on your ideas there in the new year. +1 to more notes for instructors, but I'd much rather we put it in GitHub - that's where the rest of our content goes, it'll do notifications for people who want them, and it's easy to review pull requests. The checklists are all in the 'site' repo (https://github.com/swcarpentry/site) in the workshops/checklists directory - if you'd rather not check out 'site' (which is rather large) you can always edit directly on GitHub and send PRs that way. - A more structured mentorship model. Greg has hopes to pursue this in concert with the Steering Committee in the new year. In the meantime, more community brainstorming is always better: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/SWCmentorsGuide Again, I'd prefer to keep things in GitHub - https://github.com/swcarpentry/instructor-training has the notes that Bill and I have been assembling on instructor training, and pull requests on that would be very welcome. - A video maintainer role, to help organize and maintain a collection of videos that will bring examples of teaching to the community, without the overhead of actually attending events. +1 --- even if you can't get videos of entire workshops, short videos of particular topics (5-15 minutes long) showing how we teach X, Y, or Z would be very welcome. Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Lex Nederbragt Norwegian High-Throughput Sequencing Centre (NSC) Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) Dept. of Biosciences, University of Oslo P.O. Box 1066 Blindern 0316 Oslo, Norway Ph. +47 22844132 +47 48028722 Fax. +47 22854001 Email [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.sequencing.uio.no<http://www.sequencing.uio.no/> http://flavors.me/flxlex
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