General Information

The Carpentries is a community of practice centered around teaching foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide. This Instructor Training event is designed to prepare trainees to certify and participate as Carpentries Instructors. However, much of our curriculum focuses on educational principles that apply across a wide variety of contexts. We also welcome participants who do not plan to certify but simply wish to become a better teacher.

Carpentries Instructor Training has the following goals:

• Introduce you to evidence-based teaching practices.
• Teach you how to create a positive environment for learners at your workshops.
• Provide opportunities for you to practice and build your teaching skills.
• Help you become integrated into the Carpentries community.
• Prepare you to use these teaching skills in teaching Carpentries workshops.

Because we have only limited time, some things are beyond the scope of this training. We will not be learning:

• How to program in R or Python, use Git or SQL, or any of the other topics taught in Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, or Software Carpentry workshops.
• How to create your own lessons from scratch (although you will have a good start on the principles behind that sort of work if you are inspired to learn more).

Instructor Training events are hands-on throughout: short lessons alternate with individual and group practical exercises, including practice teaching sessions. This Instructor Training event is the first step towards certification as a Carpentries Instructor. For more details on the other 3 steps, see the Checkout Instructions page. For more information, see our Instructor Training Curriculum.

Code of Conduct

All participants are required to abide by The Carpentries Code of Conduct.

Where

Online

This is an online event and will be conducted using the Zoom video conferencing platform. No log-in is needed. However, if you have not used Zoom before, please click the link a few minutes early as it may prompt you to install the Zoom app or browser extension. You should have received a connection link in the same email that directed you to this website. If you found this page by another means and did not receive the connection link, please check your spam folder and email instructor.training@carpentries.org with your Trainers (contact details below) on cc.

How to Prepare for Instructor Training

Before your training, please visit our Preparing for Instructor Training page for complete instructions. A brief summary of these instructions is as follows

1. Complete our Pre-training Survey. You will receive a custom link for your event when you receive your connection information.
2. Select a lesson to use for teaching practice sessions and prepare a 3 minute segment, spending no more than 20-30 minutes to prepare.
3. Please read the following:
• The Science of Learning
• The Carpentries Annual Report

Checkout: The Instructor Certification Process

After the training event, we ask you to complete three follow-up tasks to become a certified Instructor. These requirements are detailed on our Checkout Instructions page and will be discussed at our training.

What to Bring to an In-Person Event

Participants should bring a laptop that is Internet connected and has a functioning browser. If you have it, a device for recording audio and video (mobile phones and laptops are OK) is useful as we are going to record one another teaching in pairs or threes. It does not have to be high-quality, but it should be good enough that you can understand what someone is saying.

Attendance and Cancellation

Trainees who miss more than 1 hour of the training may be marked absent. Instructor certification cannot be completed without full attendance at an Instructor Training event. If you unexpectedly need to miss more than 1 hour of your event, please contact your Trainers (contact info below).

For events in which registration occurs through The Carpentries via Eventbrite, cancellation may be performed in Eventbrite up to the start of the event. Canceled seats cannot be filled after the 1 week registration deadline for these events, so we ask that you only cancel if absolutely necessary.

More information on our cancellation and makeup policy is available in The Carpentries Handbook.

Contact

Please email a.nenadic@manchester.ac.uk , J.Laird@epcc.ed.ac.uk , s.aragon@epcc.ed.ac.uk , mihafiz@gmail.com or annajiat@gmail.com for more information.

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Preparation

Please read the following before the workshop begins:

1. The Science of Learning
2. The Carpentries 2020 Annual Report

Please also read through one episode of one of The Carpentries lessons below carefully, so that you can do some exercises based on it on the first day of the class. An episode is one page of a lesson.

• Data Carpentry Lessons
• Library Carpentry Lessons
• Software Carpentry Lessons

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Training Materials and Schedule

Please see the Instructor Training Curriculum for course material and sample schedule for a 2-day event.

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Etherpad: https://pad.carpentries.org/2022-05-20-ttt-ssi-online.
We will use this Etherpad for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.

Surveys

Before attending the workshop, please fill out our pre-training survey.

After the workshop, please fill out our post-training survey.