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.

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/

Instructors, helpers and organizers

• Cristóbal Gallardo, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Bérénice Batut, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Fotis Psomopoulos, INAB|CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Pradeep Eranti

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