From 114ed28e2b99da6672f93d1760e1ae0f1a8a9034 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stepas Toliautas <59330245+stepas-toliautas@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:40:04 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 1/5] Initial content for co-teaching.md --- content/co-teaching.md | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/co-teaching.md b/content/co-teaching.md index 4557b24..8573854 100644 --- a/content/co-teaching.md +++ b/content/co-teaching.md @@ -11,8 +11,44 @@ - Exercises: ? min ::: +Why teach together? +------------------- -Here the episode sections and text ... +It has been said **a lot**, especially in areas such as code development or scientific research, about the value of collaboration. +Yet still today, the effort of teaching is made alone far too often: a person decides to share their knowledge (or gets assigned a study module) and starts building the actual teaching material basically from scratch. +It seems much more logical, in the age of FAIR science and open knowledge, to release, develop, iterate, and maintain teaching material -- including the contact sessions -- **collaboratively** as well. + +Ways to teach together +---------------------- + +* Develop materials together - avoid duplication. +* Present the materials together ("proper" co-teaching, see `Team teaching section`__ on the CR manual). +* Use helpers extensively to tackle specific tasks commonly arising in online teaching process. +* Involve your learners too, e.g. using collaborative document (such as HackMD) for parallel and mass answers. + +Advantages +---------- + +* If you need to teach anyway, combined efforts take up less time. +* More engaging to the audience, taking some of the (sometimes daunting) expectation to "speak up" off of the students. +* Easier on-boarding of new instructors -- one of them can be learning at the same time, either subtleties of the material or the teaching itself. +* `Swiss-cheese`__ principle: two "imperfect" teachers are __much__ easier to find and complement each other than the extensively-prepared, absolute expert. + +Challenges +---------- + +* Additional effort needed of teacher and/or helper coordination -- including syncing up their schedules! +* Materials might need to be (hopefully slightly) tuned to a specific target audience. +* Using simultaneous-teaching strategies is a learned skill, not identical to the classical lecturing. +* Online tools (HackMD, type-alongs) can potentially overload learners and teachers alike, if not used with care. + +.. exercise:: + + [What's better here -- practical exercise or discussion?] + + + +[TODO: Here goes the rest of the episode sections and text] :::{keypoints} From ef31be3f5dcc5c4784589afdcfabca950f164774 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stepas Toliautas <59330245+stepas-toliautas@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:48:55 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 2/5] Update co-teaching.md (formatting) --- content/co-teaching.md | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/co-teaching.md b/content/co-teaching.md index 8573854..a76861a 100644 --- a/content/co-teaching.md +++ b/content/co-teaching.md @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Ways to teach together ---------------------- * Develop materials together - avoid duplication. -* Present the materials together ("proper" co-teaching, see `Team teaching section`__ on the CR manual). +* Present the materials together ("proper" co-teaching, see [Team teaching section](https://coderefinery.github.io/manuals/team-teaching/>) on the CR manual). * Use helpers extensively to tackle specific tasks commonly arising in online teaching process. * Involve your learners too, e.g. using collaborative document (such as HackMD) for parallel and mass answers. @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Advantages * If you need to teach anyway, combined efforts take up less time. * More engaging to the audience, taking some of the (sometimes daunting) expectation to "speak up" off of the students. * Easier on-boarding of new instructors -- one of them can be learning at the same time, either subtleties of the material or the teaching itself. -* `Swiss-cheese`__ principle: two "imperfect" teachers are __much__ easier to find and complement each other than the extensively-prepared, absolute expert. + [Swiss-cheese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model) principle: two "imperfect" teachers are __much__ easier to find and complement each other than the extensively-prepared, absolute expert. Challenges ---------- @@ -43,12 +43,10 @@ Challenges * Online tools (HackMD, type-alongs) can potentially overload learners and teachers alike, if not used with care. .. exercise:: - - [What's better here -- practical exercise or discussion?] - + (What's better here -- practical exercise or discussion?) -[TODO: Here goes the rest of the episode sections and text] +(TODO: Here goes the rest of the episode sections and text) :::{keypoints} From ca554aa60a2364dabebcd6cda13dbcb46a14bce5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stepas Toliautas <59330245+stepas-toliautas@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:49:32 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 3/5] Update co-teaching.md (formatting) --- content/co-teaching.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/co-teaching.md b/content/co-teaching.md index a76861a..913c834 100644 --- a/content/co-teaching.md +++ b/content/co-teaching.md @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Advantages * If you need to teach anyway, combined efforts take up less time. * More engaging to the audience, taking some of the (sometimes daunting) expectation to "speak up" off of the students. * Easier on-boarding of new instructors -- one of them can be learning at the same time, either subtleties of the material or the teaching itself. - [Swiss-cheese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model) principle: two "imperfect" teachers are __much__ easier to find and complement each other than the extensively-prepared, absolute expert. +* [Swiss-cheese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model) principle: two "imperfect" teachers are __much__ easier to find and complement each other than the extensively-prepared, absolute expert. Challenges ---------- From 5fafbd78081f4ce39355b84119e48b2f6aa33bab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stepas Toliautas <59330245+stepas-toliautas@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:52:59 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 4/5] Update co-teaching.md (formatting) --- content/co-teaching.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/co-teaching.md b/content/co-teaching.md index 913c834..0ee355b 100644 --- a/content/co-teaching.md +++ b/content/co-teaching.md @@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ Challenges * Using simultaneous-teaching strategies is a learned skill, not identical to the classical lecturing. * Online tools (HackMD, type-alongs) can potentially overload learners and teachers alike, if not used with care. -.. exercise:: - (What's better here -- practical exercise or discussion?) - +:::{exercise} +(What's better here -- practical exercise or discussion?) +::: (TODO: Here goes the rest of the episode sections and text) From 9b534ad0e44b4e88e43956c5926a3e1b4744cc3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stepas Toliautas <59330245+stepas-toliautas@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:53:44 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 5/5] Update co-teaching.md (formatting) --- content/co-teaching.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/co-teaching.md b/content/co-teaching.md index 0ee355b..ab24451 100644 --- a/content/co-teaching.md +++ b/content/co-teaching.md @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Ways to teach together ---------------------- * Develop materials together - avoid duplication. -* Present the materials together ("proper" co-teaching, see [Team teaching section](https://coderefinery.github.io/manuals/team-teaching/>) on the CR manual). +* Present the materials together ("proper" co-teaching, see [Team teaching section](https://coderefinery.github.io/manuals/team-teaching/) on the CR manual). * Use helpers extensively to tackle specific tasks commonly arising in online teaching process. * Involve your learners too, e.g. using collaborative document (such as HackMD) for parallel and mass answers.