Library Carpentry: Instructor Onboarding

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What You Can Expect From�This Onboarding

Content

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• Overview of Curriculum
• Who is the target audience of the curriculum?
• What are the main objectives of the curriculum?
• What is required to teach/learn from the curriculum?
• Common challenges
• What do Instructors need to be aware of as they prepare to teach the curriculum?
• Acknowledgements
• Who deserves credit for developing and maintaining this curriculum?

Target Audience

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The target audience of this onboarding is certified Carpentries Instructors who want to prepare to teach part or all of this curriculum in a workshop.

After following this onboarding, Instructors will be able to update their profile in AMY and will receive a badge for this curriculum after they teach it in a workshop.

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Onboarding Objectives

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By the end of this onboarding, a Carpentries Instructor should be able to:

• describe the target audience and objectives of the curriculum
• assess whether the curriculum meets the needs of their community
• summarise the examples and narratives used in the curriculum
• decide whether the curriculum fits their expertise, and if so…
• prepare to teach at least one lesson in the curriculum

Curriculum Overview

What should go in this section

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• Lesson program to which the curriculum belongs (Software/Library/Data Carpentry/none (Incubator or Lab)
• Target audience of curriculum
• Main objectives of curriculum
• Prerequisite knowledge for Instructors (skills and knowledge required to teach the curriculum effectively)
• Brief review of setup requirements, with particular emphasis on any special setup that is required e.g. cloud instances
• Prerequisite knowledge for Learners
• Summary of main example dataset/central narrative, if there is one, including a review of any important example files

Lesson Overview

What should go in this section

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• Note: this section is only necessary if the curriculum contains multiple lessons
• List of each lesson in the curriculum
• Main objectives of each lesson
• Narrative/main example used in each lesson
• What lessons should be taught/which are optional?

Common Challenges

What should go in this section

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• Use this section to describe any parts of the curriculum/lessons that can be challenging to teach/easy for learners to get confused during
• anything else that could help Instructors better prepare to teach this curriculum for the first time?
• (The Instructor Notes sections of each lesson in the curriculum should be good sources of this information.)

Acknowledgements

What should go in this section

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• Use this section to describe the history of this curriculum. This does not need to be exhaustive, but should address the major points such as:
• original authors
• any funding that supported its creation
• hosting institutions and instructors of pilot workshops
• anyone else who had an important role in its development