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Mission

The Committee was established in 2015 (originally the Mentoring Subcommittee) to develop and maintain a mentorship program to support instructors as they progress through training, teaching, curriculum development, and other community-related activities. We help promote community-building and networking by providing (virtual) spaces where instructors from all over the world can share teaching success stories and discuss strategies for overcoming challenges. In August 2018, the group was renamed to the Instructor Development Committee to reflect the wider focus of its activity and to avoid confusion with the Mentoring Groups Program.

Objectives

  • Host weekly instructor discussion sessions to help support soon-to-be instructors going through checkout and create a space where upcoming and recent instructors of workshops can share their thoughts and perspectives going into and coming out of a workshop.
  • Host monthly committee meetings to check in on instructor discussion sessions, get updates on other Carpentries committees, and brainstorm new directions and happenings of the Instructor Development Committee.

Activities

Current

(See the README for how to participate in these activities.)

  • Instructor Discussion Sessions: one hour weekly discussions for instructors at past and upcoming workshops

    Satisfies objectives x, y, z

  • Mentoring Program: small groups of newer instructors/community members being mentored by 1-2 experienced instructors/community members

    Satisfies objectives x, y, z

  • Regional Communities Sub-Committee: Sub-group of local community leaders to share knowledge, tips and tricks for organizing local SWC/DC groups

    Satisfies objectives x, y, z

Wishlist

  • Facilitating discovery of mentoring activities by community members
  • Better scheduling tool for discussions (signupgenius.com?)
  • Lesson mentoring
    • How to teach existing lessons well
    • How to write new lessons (jekyll mechanics, SWC/DC process, pedagogy + content)
  • Task forces in conjunction with maintainer/lesson committees:
    • Instructor notes development
    • Contribution guidelines for lessons
  • Discipline mentoring
    • Building communities of people to share information from their research domain
  • Career mentoring
    • Already (sort-of) being organized -- become an official part of the committee?
  • Another large scale event like the virtual retreat or bug BBQ

Past Activities

  • Instructor-Helper Retreat: In November 2015, Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry instructors and helpers got together together at sites around the world for a day of sharing skills, trying out new lessons and ideas and discussing all things instructor and helper related. To see the schedule for the 2015 retreat, visit: http://swcarpentry.github.io/instructor-retreat-2015/

  • Archived: Pre- and Post- Workshop Debriefing Session: Before launching the Instructor Discussion Sessions, we used to host separate pre- and post-workshop debriefing sessions. We are grateful to all the hosts and participants who attended these sessions.

Membership, Roles, Governance

See this page.