ABOUT
ELIXIR-FR in collaboration with ELIXIR-IT and Swiss Institute of Bionformatics (SIB) are pleased to announce a Train the Trainer (TtT) event.
Fee
There is no course attendance fee. The participants will need to bear their travel, hotel (if any) and lunches costs. ELIXIR-FR will cover coffee breaks.
Instructors
Patricia Palagi (TrC Elixir-Switzerland, SIB)
Allegra Via (TrC Elixir-Italy, IBPM-CNR)
Rochelle E. Tractenberg (Georgetown University Medical Center)
Local organisers
Victoria Dominguez Del Angel, TrC Elixir-France, French Insitute of Bioinformatics UMS3601-CNRS, Campus Universitaire d'Orsay, France
Hervé Ménager, Pasteur Institute, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Hub – C3BI, USR 3756 IP CNRS – Paris, France
Description
The course is made up of four sessions, covering:
- Learning principles and how they apply to training and teaching
- Teaching techniques that can be used to enhance learner engagement and participation
- Assessment and feedback in training and teaching
- Lesson, course, and materials design
Target Audience
Whoever is interested in becoming a teacher or a better one. If you have questions like the following ones, this course may be very helpful to you.
- How learning works?
- How can I use learning principles and theories to improve my teaching?
- How can I make my teaching more engaging and effective?
- How should I adjust my teaching to different types of learners?
- How can I help slow learners?
- 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?
- How can I become a better teacher?
- Etc.
