Instructor Development

Get certified to teach Instructor Training with The Carpentries!

Share your thoughts on the purpose, barriers, and how we can make it better.

Learn more about the transition and how to be engaged

Do you want to teach others to develop skills and confidence as Carpentries Instructors? Become a Trainer!

New information about upcoming Discussion Host onboarding sessions for anyone interested in facilitating community calls and themed discussions in The Carpentries.

Apply to become an Instructor Trainer and shape the next generation of Carpentries Instructors!

We spent some time reflecting on 2020 as a Team, and wrote thank you notes for our community.

Our community is resilient, patient and very resourceful

Become a mentor or mentee for first cycle of 2021 Mentoring Groups!

Our Instructor Development Committee has a strong team of seven to lead its activities over the next year

Applications are now open to join the 2020-2021 cohort of leadership for the Instructor Development Committee

Apply to become an Instructor Trainer and shape the next generation of Carpentries Instructors!

Information for Carpentries Instructors to teach workshops remotely

Share this with your students before your next online workshop

A bit of a plan for teaching online

The Carpentries convened a COVID-19 Response Task Force in mid-March, and a first version of their work is summarised in this post.

As at December 2019, Carpentries Instructors and Helpers have made over 2,440 workshops possible!

In just six months our Instructor Development Committee has done SO MUCH!

Job Opportunities With The Carpentries

Apply to become an Instructor Trainer and shape the next generation of Carpentries Instructors!

A new tool for instructor-trainers to make preparation for a new workshop easier.

How Rstudio's instructor training builds on the Carpentries.

Matt Dray shares lessons from the trainer workshop about audience needs and positive instructor behaviour when running participatory live coding

Here's what The Carpentries team accomplished in Q2 and Q3 2019, and a look into work that will continue in Q4 2019.

California Digital Library receives supplemental grant from IMLS for Library Carpentry

Curious about mentoring groups?

Let's talk about community discussions

IDC wants your feedback on 6/17

Here's what The Carpentries team is working on in the second quarter of 2019.

Our Instructor Development Committee has a strong team of six to lead its activities over the next year

New instructors from the East Coast of South Africa join The Carpentries community

Interested in leading the Instructor Development Committee? Learn more about the Committee and read some advice from a former Co-Chair.

The Carpentries is searching for its next Instructor Development Committee Leaders!

Welcome to our new Trainer trainees!

We’re making it easier for Members (and others) to schedule their teams for Instructor Training

Instructor Development Committee proposes new checkout requirement

What’s new in the Instructor Training curriculum?

Experienced instructors & trained educators wanted!

Helping us grow our pool of Carpentries instructors

Building global communities of Spanish-speaking Carpentry instructors and lesson developers

Help us grow and diversify our pool of Carpentries instructors

2012-2018 Programmatic Assessment Report Published

Many Carpentries instructors may find themselves in the position of teaching material they do not know all that well

Two days of bug squashing coming up!

Already a Software Carpentry instructor? Become a Data Carpentry instructor too!

Meet other instructors and help the community grow.

“No matter how hard I practice I’ll never be able to dunk a basketball.”

We’re releasing a new version of the Carpentry Instructor Training curriculum - learn how you can help!

Linking self-efficacy to learner success in carpentry workshops.

Analysis of checkout completion rates and time to first workshop for new instructors

“Building community through training and coding”

Thank you to all of our amazing applicants!

Applications are now open for R instructor training

Two open instructor training classes this fall

Recognizing volunteers for their outstanding work in the community.

Instructor training event will take place in Potchefstroom, North-West Province, South Africa from 17 - 20 April 2016

“An updated history of how new Instructors become certified”

“How to navigate the inevitably awkward.”