Skill-Up Workshop: Curriculum Development with The Carpentries

[fmichonneau]

CarpentryCon @ Home -- Curriculum Development Skill-Up

• Session type: Skill-up

• Keywords: Curriculum Development, Backward Design, CarpentriesLab, Carpentries Incubator

• Permission to record this session: yes

Abstract

This skill-up session is aimed at anyone who wants to learn more about how to design good lessons and the lesson development process promoted by The Carpentries.

If you'd like to create your own lesson, or contribute to the ongoing development of existing curricula, but aren't sure where to start, this session is for you!

The session will be in 2 parts. First, we will review the principles of curriculum design used for Carpentries lessons. Using the Curriculum Development Handbook, we will present how to use Backward Design to identify what to include in a lesson, decide on the exercises suitable for formative assessment, and the general development life-cycle of a lesson. In the second part, we will present and answer questions about The Carpentries Incubator and The Carpentries Lab, venues to collaborate and share community-developed lessons in the style of The Carpentries.

After attending the session, participants will be able to design new lessons in style of The Carpentries, create exercises suitable to the learning objectives of their lessons, and contribute to the development of existing curricula.

Personal details

• Name or pseudoname of the session lead: François Michonneau

• Co-leads' names (we recommend involving 2 helpers/co-leads): Toby Hodges

• Email or other ways to contact the session leads/co-leads: francois@carpentries.org

• Country of residence and/or compatible Time Zones (provide options): Europe

• Would you like to present this multiple times, in other time zones: Americas

• Would you like to volunteer to be listed as a wrangler/host for your time zone: Contact me.

Is there any help you would like to invite from the community? Please provide below in bullet points.

• not at this time :smile:

Other comment

If possible, we'd like to have this workshop the week of July 27-31st at 4pm Central Europe Time (UTC +2) for a duration of 2 hours

[ousodaniel]

@fmichonneau thanks for your interest in regional hosting, check out the details here please. We'd love to see you sign up. Best

[kerchner]

@fmichonneau Does a "two part" workshop mean that the single session will have two main parts, or were you thinking to have the two parts scheduled at separate times?

[fmichonneau]

We were thinking 1 session with 2 main parts. Thanks!

[serahkiburu]

Hi @fmichonneau, the organising committee reviewed this session proposal and had this to say:

This will be a useful session for the Carpentries community members interested in lesson development, and recording it means that it can be a resource after Carpentry Con @ Home. The proposal has clear goals and a plan for achieving them.

Really excited for your session, and more details i.e. around scheduling will be shared with you in the coming days. Thanks François!