[Trainer Meeting]: Engaging with trainees prior teaching experiences

[brownsarahm]

A short title

Engaging with trainees prior teaching experiences

Introduce the topic

We note in the lesson material how learners' prior experience influences what they learn in our discussion of misconceptions. How and how much should we engage with our instructor trainees' prior teaching experiences in order to help them learn our practice and compare/contrast with what they have learned elsewhere?

We ask about that experience and in my experience it mostly comes up through questions and discussions, not explicitly in the material, but how can we as trainers be prepare for these discussions for example:

• how do Carpentries learners compare/contrast with undergrads or younger students trainees may have more experience teaching?
• what specific aspects of our teaching practice are because of the short format? what practices would not be best practice for a semester long course?

If you would like to host, which trainer meeting time would you host?

• Meeting 1 (UTC 14:00)
• Meeting 2 (UTC 22:00)
• I do not want to host
• other (explain below)

Are there any scheduling concerns?

I can host at least one, but which one depends on when this topic is scheduled. I probably have to miss the first September meeting and in the August meeting I will be doing a post workshop discussion.

I'm also curious as to others' interest on the topic (even if only leadership responds with an estimate) of if we want this on a meeting with pre/post or a second meeting for time reasons.

[ragamouf]

Hi @brownsarahm, the Trainers Leadership Committee are reviewing the open and dormant issues in the trainers repo. Many of these are good ideas but we have seen no action on them often more than 12 months. I'd like to close this issue on that basis, is that ok with you?

[brownsarahm]

This one is a potential topic for a trainer meeting, if there are topics scheduled out pretty far, that is fine, but otherwise ones like this I think make sense to keep available. (and I can attend trainer meetings again, so I could even host this topic)

[ragamouf]

Hi @sheraaronhurt flagging this as a potential discussion topic for a 2025 trainer meeting.