Training courses 2020: ELIXIR Train the Trainer
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The ELIXIR Training Platform, in collaboration with ELIXIR-IT, is pleased to announce a Train the Trainer (TtT) event online.
Important dates
Course date: 01-04 December, 2020, 14:00 - 17:30 CET
Selection
We will accept a maximum of 20 participants. Priority will be given to candidates from ELIXIR-IT institutes (see below) and ELIXIR nodes. Notifications of acceptance will be sent shortly after the application, which will remain open until we reach 20 participants.
Application form - Registration
Fee
There is no course attendance fee.
Instructors
Loredana Le Pera (ELIXIR-IT Deputy Training Coordinator, IBIOM/IBPM-CNR, IT)
Jessica Lindvall (ELIXIR-SE Training Coordinator, NBIS, SE)
Patricia Palagi (ELIXIR-CH Training Coordinator, SIB, CH)
Allegra Via (ELIXIR-IT Training Coordinator, IBPM-CNR, IT)
Organisers
Allegra Via, IBPM-CNR, ELIXIR-IT, IT
Loredana Le Pera, IBIOM/IBPM-CNR, ELIXIR-IT, IT
Contact
For all kinds of queries, please contact us at elixir.ita.training@gmail.com.
Description - Course materials
The course is made up of four sessions, covering:
- Learning principles and how they apply to training and teaching
- Lesson, course, and materials design
- Teaching techniques that can be used to enhance learner engagement and participation
- Assessment and feedback in training and teaching
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.
Learning Objectives
- To get acquainted with Learning principles and how they apply to training
- To be able to select and utilise training techniques that can be used to enhance learner engagement and participation
- To learn how to use assessment and feedback in training
- To learn about session, course, and materials design
Learning Outcomes
- Learners can name learning principles that a good teacher/instructor should have in mind
- Learners can describe at least three training techniques, drawing on learning principles
- Learners can design a training session and a course
- Learners can develop assessment questionnaires
- Learners can enumerate types of materials needed for each part of a training session or course
General programme
Day 1 |
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14:00 - 14:30 | Introductions, who is who and what we need to achieve |
14:30 - 17:30 | [Session 1]: Review of learning principles and how they apply to training and teaching |
Day 2 |
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14:00 - 17:30 | [Session 2]: Session, course, and material design |
Day 3 |
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14:00 - 17:30 | [Session 3]: Training techniques that can be used to enhance learner engagement and participation |
Day 4 |
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14:00 - 17:00 | [Session 4]: Assessment and feedback in training |
17:00 - 17:30 | Wrap-up and feedback |
ELIXIR-IT member institutes
- CNR, National Research Council (Lead Institute)
- CRS4
- CINECA
- Edmund Mach Foundation, Trento
- ENEA
- Fondazione Telethon
- INFN
- Istituto Superiore di SanitĂ (ISS)
- GARR
- Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli
- University of Roma "Sapienza"
- University of Bari
- University of Bologna
- University of Firenze
- University of Milano
- University of Milano Bicocca
- University of Napoli
- University of Padova
- University of Parma
- University of Roma "Tor Vergata"
- University of Salerno
- University of Torino
- University of Tuscia
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