ELIXIR Train the Trainer - Online course
Feb 9-12, 2021

The ELIXIR Training Platform is pleased to announce a Train the Trainer (TtT) event online, in collaboration with ELIXIR-CZ and UCT Prague.

Important dates

Course date: 09-12 February, 2020, 14:00 - 17:30 CET

Online platform

Zoom

Selection

We will accept a maximum of 20 participants. Priority will be given to candidates from ELIXIR-CZ institutes (see below) and ELIXIR nodes.

Application form

registration closed

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)

Local organisers

• Vojtěch Spiwok (ELIXIR-CZ Training Coordinator, UCT Prague, CZ)

Contact

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

• 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

• 14:00 - 17:30 [Session 2]: Session, course, and material design

Day 3

• 14:00 - 17:30 [Session 3]: Training techniques that can be used to enhance learner engagement and participation

Day 4

• 14:00 - 17:00 [Session 4]: Assessment and feedback in training
• 17:00 - 17:30 Wrap-up and feedback

ELIXIR-CZ member institutes

• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS
• CESNET, z.s.p.o.
• Masaryk University – CEITEC and CERIT–SC
• Palacký University Olomouc
• Charles University
• Institute of Molecular Genetics of the ASCR, v. v. i.
• Institute of Microbiology of the CAS, v. v. i.
• Institute of Biotechnology CAS, v. v. i.
• Biology Centre CAS
• University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
• Czech Technical University in Prague - Faculty of Information Technology
• University of West Bohemia
• University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
• University Hospital at Saint Anna in Brno, FNUSA – ICRC