Elements of instructor training workshop

… in no particular order, these are the elements

These are recursive notes of organising any carpentries workshop. We will use some of these in our own instructor training processes, but the elements are all there. Some of the concepts are annotated

Start the day of the instruction by going to the venue at least 30 minutes ahead of time

Needed to set up the site. In the site itself try to troubleshoot for the participants. Our aim will be that, each participant should leave the workshop with a set of computer programmes that he or she can use in productive work as well.

We teach computational competence and computational thinking much less specific skills

This is the key point. Our aim in the software or data carpentry workshop is to make sure each participant has ample time to practice and has opportunities of his or her questions answered. Similarly, in the instructor training workshop, each participant should at least have a solid understanding of the

• key pedagogical issues
• proficient with live coding
• learn to set up a workshop

Dress professionally and speak well about yourself

The need to speak well about yourself is to make sure that we do not succumb to the…