Carpentries Incubation: Teaching

[tobyhodges]

(From https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/governance/lesson-program-policy.html#phase-2-incubation)

Goal: to ensure quality of curriculum, and demand for workshops.

• Run pilot workshops to gather feedback on the curriculum and confirm that it is ready for teaching by the Instructor community
• Collect and analyze post-workshop feedback
• Complete and refine core curriculum, incorporating relevant workshop feedback
• Assign one or two leads for workshop coordination and communications work
• A list of workshops run during the Incubation Phase, or in the past year (whichever is the longer period of time)
• A list of organizations which have expressed interest in hosting centrally organized workshops using the Lesson Project’s curriculum
• A list of people who are able to teach the Lesson Project’s curriculum/curricula, whether or not they are already certified Carpentries Instructors
• Provide details of any special requirements for the Lesson Project’s workshops, for example resources or infrastructure that The Carpentries would need to provide for workshops to succeed.

[tobyhodges]

One thing that should be prepared is advice/guidance/discussion to help Instructors decide whether and how to include SWC shell in their workshops: the different approaches you could take (leave it out; include it at the start of the workshop; run it in a separate event for those who feel they need it; maybe others?) and the advantages/disadvantages of each. Part of a kind of Instructor Onboarding documentation, I think.