Information for Partner Organisations

Welcome to The Carpentries community. We are excited to welcome you as a Partner Organisation. Learner-Centered Teaching is a key part of how The Carpentries shares its evidence-based teaching practices and learner-focused instructional culture with new organisations and communities. We’re looking forward to meeting your team and helping them develop their teaching skills so you can have the best impact on the learners at your institution.

Your annual Partnership gives you a number of seats in our Learner-Centered Teaching program. This training is intended for individuals who teach or facilitate learning for adult learners and is based on The Carpentries’ evidence-based, openly developed teaching materials.

This 8-hour interactive training blends short lessons with hands-on practice to introduce evidence-based teaching strategies and approaches for creating positive, inclusive learning environments. Participants will practice these techniques, receive feedback, and engage with a cohort of peers interested in strengthening their teaching skills. Trainees do not need any previous teaching experience or background in education.

How to schedule your team for training:

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• You can view available training dates for the current quarter on our training calendar.

• Trainees can register by clicking the registration link on the calendar page above and entering the code provided for your team. Your trainees may sign up individually for different events, or you may register all of your trainees for the same event.

• Trainees may register or change their registration up to one week before the event. However, we recommend registering as early as possible, as these events fill up quickly.

• If one of your trainees is not able to attend after they have registered for an event, please get in touch with us at team@carpentries.org as soon as possible. In some cases, we will be able to transfer your training seat to another event, however, because the success of our program depends on accurately predicting our capacity needs, we may not be able to accommodate changes in registration unless we are notified in advance of the event. Except in case of emergency, training seats may be forfeited if advance notice is not given.

• Information about the training’s preparatory homework and video-conference connection information will be provided one week before the event.

Note that in order to provide the best experience for our trainees, in rare instances, events may be canceled due to low enrollment. If this happens, you will be notified at least two weeks before the event and will have the opportunity to sign up for a future event.