General Information

The course is aimed at everyone who is interested in becoming a better teacher. This training aims to teach The Carpentries Track to become Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry and Library Carpentry instructors, run workshops and contribute to the Carpentry training materials, and ELIXIR Track to organise or teach at the ELIXIR bioinformatics or wet-biology workshops. You don't currently have to be an instructor or a teacher to attend this workshop, but you do need to be willing and committed to becoming one and to improving your teaching techniques.

About The Carpentries:

The Carpentries' mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing. This hands-on two-day workshop covers the basics of educational psychology and instructional design, and looks at how to use these ideas in both intensive workshops and regular classes.

About ELIXIR:

ELIXIR unites Europe’s leading life science organisations in managing and safeguarding the increasing volume of data being generated by publicly funded research. It coordinates, integrates and sustains bioinformatics resources across its member states and enables users in academia and industry to access services that are vital for their research.

Format

On the first day, we will follow The Carpentries instructor training curricuum. On the second day, the participants in this workshop will be divided into 2 groups. The Carpentries track will focus on the The Carpentries' specific curriculum for teaching programming, and learning about their instructor checkout process required to become a certified instructor. Those following the ELIXIR track will be able to choose between ELIXIR curriculum for teaching bioinformatics or wet-lab biology.

This workshop is a mix of lectures and hands-on lessons where you practice giving a short lesson using approaches learned and implement some of the teaching techniques which we will discuss. This is training for teaching, not technical training; you do not need any particular technical background, and we will not be teaching that. This workshop is based on the constantly revised and updated curriculum.

Where: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg (Room 202). Get directions with Google Maps.

Requirements:

When possible, participants should bring a laptop that can be connected to Internet to follow teaching materials and developing shared notes. </br> A device for recording audio and video (mobile phones and laptops are OK) will also be useful as throughout the two days, 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.

Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. Please contact the workshop organisers to let them know if you need any assistance to make your participation at the workshop more comfortable.

Materials will be provided in advance of the workshop and large-print handouts are available if needed by notifying the organizers in advance. If we can help making learning easier for you (e.g. requirements related to mobility, diet etc.) please please get in touch (using contact details below) and we will try our best to provide them.

All participants are required to abide by The Carpentries' Code of Conduct. You are encouraged to submit your report by completing the Code of Conduct Incident Report Form. The form may be completed anonymously, or you may include your contact information (more details). Please reach out to Malvika Sharan for any support or assistance related to CoC and/or accessibility.

Selection process:

Due to a limited number of seats (15 for The Carpentries Track, and 10 for ELIXIR Track), registrations will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis.

Course fee:

This course is offered free of charge but, in the registration form, you must tell us about your motivation for attending the workshop and the training activities you would like to get involved in afterwards.

Registration:

You can secure a seat by registering via this form: https://forms.gle/koz2bVR7VE6BSz77A

Contact: Please email sharan@embl.de for more information.

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The Carpentries track specific information

Pre-training survey

Participants following The Carpentries Track must fill out our pre-training survey before attending the workshop.

Preparation

Please read the following before the workshop begins:

1. The Science of Learning

Post-training survey

The Carpentries Track participants must fill out our post-training survey after the workshop.

Please note that after this course, participants of The Carpentries track will be asked to do three short follow-up exercises online in order to finish qualifying as an instructor: the details are available at https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/checkout/. If you have any questions about the workshop, the reading material, or anything else, please get in touch.

Please see this site for course material and tentative schedule.

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Training Materials and Schedule

We will share the exact schedule and materials online soon for both The Carpentries and ELIXIR track participants.

Sponsors and supporters:

This course is hosted by EMBL Bio-IT and EICAT and supported by de.NBI - ELIXIR, Germany.