diff --git a/content/co-teaching.md b/content/co-teaching.md index 4557b24..ab24451 100644 --- a/content/co-teaching.md +++ b/content/co-teaching.md @@ -11,8 +11,42 @@ - Exercises: ? min ::: +Why teach together? +------------------- -Here the episode sections and text ... +It has been said **a lot**, especially in areas such as code development or scientific research, about the value of collaboration. +Yet still today, the effort of teaching is made alone far too often: a person decides to share their knowledge (or gets assigned a study module) and starts building the actual teaching material basically from scratch. +It seems much more logical, in the age of FAIR science and open knowledge, to release, develop, iterate, and maintain teaching material -- including the contact sessions -- **collaboratively** as well. + +Ways to teach together +---------------------- + +* Develop materials together - avoid duplication. +* Present the materials together ("proper" co-teaching, see [Team teaching section](https://coderefinery.github.io/manuals/team-teaching/) on the CR manual). +* Use helpers extensively to tackle specific tasks commonly arising in online teaching process. +* Involve your learners too, e.g. using collaborative document (such as HackMD) for parallel and mass answers. + +Advantages +---------- + +* If you need to teach anyway, combined efforts take up less time. +* More engaging to the audience, taking some of the (sometimes daunting) expectation to "speak up" off of the students. +* Easier on-boarding of new instructors -- one of them can be learning at the same time, either subtleties of the material or the teaching itself. +* [Swiss-cheese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model) principle: two "imperfect" teachers are __much__ easier to find and complement each other than the extensively-prepared, absolute expert. + +Challenges +---------- + +* Additional effort needed of teacher and/or helper coordination -- including syncing up their schedules! +* Materials might need to be (hopefully slightly) tuned to a specific target audience. +* Using simultaneous-teaching strategies is a learned skill, not identical to the classical lecturing. +* Online tools (HackMD, type-alongs) can potentially overload learners and teachers alike, if not used with care. + +:::{exercise} +(What's better here -- practical exercise or discussion?) +::: + +(TODO: Here goes the rest of the episode sections and text) :::{keypoints}