January 25-26 De-brief

• 3 whole lessons ommitted ** did it take too long? No! ** were we too novice teachers? *** it will get a little bit faster with experience, but not much
• objective: teaching based on learners pace vs teacher’s pace ** sensitive to maybe the one or two slower learners ** use sticky note! pause more, not just for challenges ** pausing when you see a lot of people needing help ** try think-pair-share
• pick and choose challenges, they are not always useful
• start with fresh new clone
• git - worth teaching?, possibly choosing to focus more on using git in terminal, rather than in rstudio ** katja uses git only in terminal (talk more about paradigm of local vs remote) ** talk more about git ignore
• practice git & rstudio on windows ** familiarize ourself with bash commands on windows
• active learning ** throw easy questions, challenges; esp when it is very silent ** use faster students to help answer questions/challenges ** when people aren’t typing when you are typing – explicitly say start a new line, type with me
• looser schedule - less granuler in spreadsheet, less time constraints
• consider teaching different lessons in workshop - familiarize ourselves with other languages
• understanding our ticks! please be generous with feedback to each other ** more breaks! - understand when you are tired as a teacher ** less longer stretches of Sharon and Mary teaching; hear a different voice