Gallantries & ELIXIR-GOBLET Train the Trainers

This course introduces trainers to learning principles, training techniques, lesson, session, course, and material design as well as assessment and feedback. This course is has been developed for by trainers in the bioinformatics but is suitable for all trainers and educators in higher education.

Date: June 12 - 15, 2023
Location: Online, Global
Contact: Bérénice Batut

General information
Pedagogical information
Preliminary schedule
Registration
After the workshop
Instructors, helpers and organizers
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Gallantries worked together with the ELIXIR-GOBLET Train the Trainer community to develop a Train the Trainer curriculum, with a focus on Galaxy, and available on the Galaxy Training Network

To deliver this curriculum, we organize a 4 half-day online and free workshop on June 12-15th, 2023 to introduce trainers to:

learning principles,
training techniques,
lesson, session, course, and material design
assessment and feedback.

Registration closed

General information

Date: June 12-15th, 2023
Format: Online via Zoom
Location: Zoom (details shared later to participants)
Time: 9am-12pm CEST (see in your timezone)
Cost: Free
Contact: berenice.batut@gmail.com if you have questions, or special requirements
Support: Zoom, Chat, and Shared Google document

Pedagogical information

Target Audience: Whoever is interested in becoming a trainer/instructor, or improving your training skills.

If you have questions like the following ones, this course may be very helpful to you.

How learning works?
How do I use learning principles and theories to improve my teaching/training?
How do I make my teaching/training more engaging and effective?
How should I adjust my teaching/training to different types of learners?
How do I ensure learning progress?
How can I assess whether my students are actually understanding my lessons? Are they actually learning?
What is the best balance between theory and practice?
How can I best assess whether learning is occurring and/or has occurred?
What works in a classroom and what doesn't?

Learning Objectives:

To get acquainted with Learning principles and how they apply to training
To be able to select and use training techniques that can help enhance learner engagement and participation
To learn how to use assessment and feedback in training
To learn about session, course, and materials design

Learning Outcome: By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

Name learning principles that a good teacher/instructor should have in mind
Describe at least three training techniques, drawing on learning principles
Design a training session and a course
Develop assessment questionnaires
Enumerate types of materials needed for each part of a training session or course

Preliminary schedule

Day	Start	End	Duration	Session	Instructors
June 12th	9:00am	9:30am	30min	Welcome	Fotis Psomopoulos, Bérénice Batut
June 12th	9:30am	12:00pm	2h30	Learning principles	Cristóbal Gallardo
June 13th	9:00am	9:30am	30min	Welcome	Fotis Psomopoulos, Bérénice Batut
June 13th	9:30am	12:00pm	2h30	Design and plan session, course, materials	Bérénice Batut
June 14th	9:00am	9:30am	30min	Welcome	Fotis Psomopoulos, Bérénice Batut
June 14th	9:30am	11:00am	1h30	Training techniques to enhance learner participation and engagement	Bérénice Batut
June 14th	11:00am	12:00pm	1h	Motivation and Demotivation	Bérénice Batut
June 15th	9:00am	9:30am	30min	Welcome	Fotis Psomopoulos, Bérénice Batut
June 15th	9:30am	10:30am	1h	Assessment and feedback in training and teachings	Fotis Psomopoulos
June 15th	10:30am	11:30am	1h	Last exercise	Fotis Psomopoulos

Registration

Registration: Before June 1st (closed earlier because already full)
Capacity: Maximum 20 participants
Selection: If more participants applied than we have the capacity, the "first applied - first served" approach will be used. Participants will be informed on the June, 1st

After the workshop

This workshop is over, all the training materials will stay online at https://training.galaxyproject.org/

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