Welcome
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The Carpentries are communities of practice. We strive to provide a welcoming environment for all learners and take our Code of Conduct seriously.
This episode sets the stage for the entire workshop. The introductions and exercises help everyone begin to develop a relationship and trust.
This workshop will cover general teaching pedagogy and how it applies specifically to the Carpentries.
Learner motivation and prior knowledge vary widely, but can be assessed with a quick multiple choice question.
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Building Skill With Practice
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Our goal when teaching novices is to help them construct useful mental models.
This requires practice and feedback.
Formative assessments provide practice for learners and feedback to learners and instructors.
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Expertise and Instruction
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Experts face challenges when teaching novices due to expert blind spot.
Expert blind spot: knowing something so well that it seems easy when it’s not.
With practice, we can learn to overcome our expert blind spot.
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Memory and Cognitive Load
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Most adults can store only a few items in short-term memory for a few seconds before they lose them again.
Things seen together are remembered (or mis-remembered) in chunks.
Teaching consists of loading short-term memory and reinforcing it long enough for items to be transferred to long-term memory.
Use formative assessments to avoid overloading short-term memory.
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Building Skill With Feedback
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Motivation and Demotivation
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A positive learning environment helps people concentrate on learning.
People learn best when they see the utility in what they’re learning, so teach what’s most immediately useful first.
Imposter syndrome is a powerful force, but can be overcome.
Accessibility benefits everyone.
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Mindset
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Growth mindset and grit promote learning by making effort a positive thing.
Presenting errors as essential to the learning process helps learners learn from their mistakes.
Successful lifelong learners aren’t embarrassed to ask for help.
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Teaching is a Skill
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Like all other skills, good teaching requires practice and feedback.
Lesson study is essential to transferring skills among teachers.
Feedback is most effective when those involved share ground rules and expectations.
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Wrap-Up and Homework for Tomorrow
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Today we learned about how people learn, how to build a positive classroom environment, and how to give feedback.
Tomorrow we will cover specifics of Carpentries workshops and teaching practices.
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Welcome Back
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Instructors guide learners to construct the proper big picture (accurate mental model) of the topic rather than focus on details.
Instructors rely on frequent feedback from learners to monitor their own presentation of the material.
Instructors introduce a few concepts at a time to avoid cognitive overload.
The best way to motivate learners? Show them how to do something they can immediately put to use and be enthusiastic about it.
Teaching is a learned skill.
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Live Coding is a Skill
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Live coding forces the instructor to slow down.
Coding-along gives learners continuous practice and feedback.
Mistakes made during participatory live coding are valuable learning opportunities.
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Preparing to Teach
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To teach effectively, you have to know who you are teaching.
Good learning objectives communicate the intended effect of a lesson on its learners.
A good exercise provides useful guidance to instructors about next steps needed in teaching.
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More Practice Live Coding
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Managing a Diverse Classroom
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Working with a broad range of learners can be challenging, but there are many ways to keep a classroom happy and motivated.
Response to a Code-of-Conduct violation at a workshop is subject to instructor discretion, but all violations should be reported to the Carpentries for follow-up.
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Finalización de Certificación
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The Carpentries: Cómo operamos
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Todos los materiales de Carpentries tienen licencia abierta, pero los nombres y logotipos de The Carpentries, Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry, and Software Carpentry están registrados.
Los talleres de Carpentries deben cubrir conceptos básicos, tener al menos un instructor certificado y utilizar nuestras encuestas previas y posteriores al taller.
En The Carpentries Handbook se proporciona orientación para la enseñanza y la organización de talleres.
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Workshop Introductions
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Poniendo Todo Junto
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Wrapping Up
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